Garrett Folks
Cloud Security Engineer at Easy Dynamics Corp
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolGarrett Folks is a Cloud Security Engineer in Boston with 9 years of experience designing and operating production-grade systems for large government agencies. He combines Site Reliability and DevOps expertise with hands-on experience in AWS and Azure, infrastructure as code, and zero trust architectures to deliver secure, scalable cloud workloads. Garrett led the design and FedRAMP Moderate authorization of a microservices-based identity proofing platform and has driven multi-cloud migrations and compliance for FEDRAMP-High and FISMA environments. He builds proactive monitoring and automated threat detection into platforms, pairing security assessments with developer training to reduce risk across the lifecycle. Known for translating rigorous regulatory requirements into practical engineering controls, he also brings HPC research experience in precision tuning from earlier work at Lawrence Livermore. Garrett’s pragmatic focus on automation and measurable reliability improvements makes him a bridge between security policy and resilient cloud operations.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at James Madison University
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Github Skills (133)
dashboard10
monitoring10
formatter10
mysql10
cloud-foundry9
data-visualization9
pagerduty9
python9
grafana9
notification-center9
influxdb9
elasticsearch9
visualization9
visualize9
autopep89
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
18F/identity-give-idemia
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 release, 28 reviews, 112 PRs in 8 months
GSA-TTS/identity-idva-usps
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 release, 25 reviews, 43 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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