Eric Pierce
Principal IAM Engineer at Nike
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Pierce is a Principal IAM Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience designing and operating identity and access management at scale, currently leading IAM architecture at Nike. He blends full-stack development and systems expertise—Java, Python, PHP, Groovy, MySQL, Unix—with deep specialization in CAS, Shibboleth, Okta and PingFederate to secure mission-critical applications and federated workflows. His background includes architecting campus-wide identity and provisioning systems at the University of South Florida and migrating 100K student accounts to Google Apps, demonstrating both operational rigor and large-scale migration experience. An active contributor to open-source tooling for identity-driven cloud access, he helped enhance the popular gimme-aws-creds CLI with Okta step-up and OAuth flows, reflecting a practical focus on developer-friendly, secure auth flows. He holds an MS in Management Information Systems and is based in Gainesville, Florida.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Management Information Systems, Master’s Degree Management Information Systems at University of South Florida
English
Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
okta10
authentication10
user-authentication10
python10
oauth10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 12 reviews, 145 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Eric made several changes focused on configuration settings and authentication flows for the `gimme-aws-creds` tool. Their primary contributions include removing and renaming configuration options related to the Okta identity provider and also adding support for the step-up authentication flow. They also refactored the code by moving the username/password prompt into the Okta class and added support for Oauth authentication.
saml-toaws-cliidpsamlokta
epierce/gimme-aws-creds
Jun 2017 - Nov 2022
A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire a temporary AWS credentials
Contributions:1 PR, 45 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 6 months
saml-toidpsamloktacredentials
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