Garret Fick
Principal Engineer at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarret Fick is a Principal Engineer at Amazon with over 18 years building distributed systems, large-scale EDA applications, and web/mobile products across startups and enterprises. He combines deep architectural experience with hands-on delivery, having co-founded a Y Combinator-backed startup and served technical leadership roles in North America and China. His background bridges mechanical engineering (BASc/MASc) and an MS in Computer Science with a machine learning focus, giving him a rare blend of systems, hardware-aware software, and ML perspectives. Garret is an active open-source contributor to security tooling—adding CIS compliance, CI-friendly outputs, and suppression rules to the popular CloudSploit CSPM project—demonstrating practical security-first engineering. Based in New York, he is known for translating complex, cross-border requirements into auditable, production-ready systems and for a design-forward approach summarized by his GitHub mantra: dream. design. build. share.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMASc Mechanical Engineering, MASc Mechanical Engineering at University of TorontoUniversity of
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
73reputation
4kreached
3answers
6questions
Github Skills (14)
audit10
aws10
auditing10
junit8
xml8
algorithm6
completablefuture6
checkstyle6
ant6
shapes6
geometry6
dependency-injection6
overlap6
java6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aquasecurity/cloudsploit
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:12 commits, 15 PRs, 30 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Garret's primary contributions focus on enhancing security auditing and compliance within the CloudSploit framework. They added support for CIS compliance on AWS, including mapping CIS rules and implementing exit codes for CI integration. Further improvements included the addition of suppression rules, CSV output functionality, and JUnit XML output format, directly supporting security reporting and analysis. The user also addressed directory and path issues related to compliance checks, reinforcing the tool's reliability across different environments.
security-auditgcpposturesecuritycloud
garretfick/pydnp3
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
Python bindings of the opendnp3 library. This is a fork of pydnp3 with the goal of ensuring up-to-date multi-platform PyPI packages that can be installed with pip
Contributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 23 pushes in 8 months
pythonpypipipgoalpython-bindings
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