Drew Myklegard
Executive Director Of Federal Programs at US Army
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolDrew Myklegard is a seasoned federal technology leader with 11+ years driving large-scale IT modernization across the White House, Veterans Affairs, and Department of Defense contexts. As Deputy Federal CIO at OMB he translated policy into engineering practice to steward $100B+ in annual IT spending, modernize FedRAMP, accelerate Zero Trust adoption, and shape early federal AI governance. At the VA he led product engineering and an API platform that enabled over 6 million veterans to securely share health and benefits data, and orchestrated rapid COVID-era software changes impacting 250+ applications. He pairs hands-on delivery—leading DevSecOps, cATO, and cloud migrations—with strategic briefings to OMB and Congress, and has managed organizations of thousands while driving cultural shifts to agile product teams. An Army Reservist and former intelligence analyst, Drew brings operational discipline and mission-focus to civilian tech transformation. He is known for turning large, compliance-driven programs into automated, developer-friendly platforms that measurably speed service delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Modern Standard Arabic Middle East Studies, Modern Standard Arabic Middle East Studies at Defense Language InstituteBS Chemistry, BS Chemistry at The College of Idaho
English, Arabic
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api8
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Github contributions (5)
myklegard/github-slideshow
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
A robot powered training repository :robot:
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
roboticsrosrobottraining
department-of-veterans-affairs/VA-Micropurchase-Repo
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Public site for VA API Platform Micropurchases
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 1 comment in 2 months
apiapi-platformva-api
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