Eric Engstrom
Director Information Security, Identity & Access Management
Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolEric Engstrom is a strategic engineering leader with 14 years of experience building identity-first, secure customer platforms across financial services, healthcare, and hospitality. Currently Director of Engineering for CIAM and Consumer Product Security at First American, he specializes in embedding security into product lifecycles—delivering passwordless authentication, AI-driven risk detection, and cloud-native architectures that scale to millions of users. He has a proven track record of modernizing IAM, reducing costs through automation, and driving audit-ready compliance programs (ISO, SOC2, PCI, GDPR/CCPA). Comfortable briefing executives and boards, Eric blends technical depth in zero-trust, UEBA, and DevSecOps with pragmatic risk governance for AI adoption. Based in Minnesota and credentialed with an MBA in IT Management, he approaches security as an enabler of growth—not just protection—and believes hacking should be for fun, not profit.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Social Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Social Science at Florida State UniversityMBA Information Technology Management, MBA Information Technology Management at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (179)
python10
ubuntu10
chat10
automation10
collaboration10
ansible-role10
ssh10
javascript10
debian10
centos10
data-protection10
editor10
buster10
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galaxy10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
eengstrom/onetimesecret-bash
Apr 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:39 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
eengstrom/eengstrom.github.io
Feb 2017 - Feb 2022
My personal ramblings in blog form
Contributions:59 commits, 32 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 1 month
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