Garrett Yamada
Associate Director, Identity Security
Bryan, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarrett Yamada is an identity security leader with 11 years of experience designing and operationalizing IAM, MFA, and federation solutions at Texas A&M University. As Associate Director and former Principal Identity Security Architect, he has driven strategy and hands-on implementations including SailPoint IdentityNow, Entra ID migrations, and MFA platform hardening. Garrett blends architecture, project management, and DevOps practices to modernize authentication across campus applications while shepherding compliance with NIST frameworks. He excels at translating complex security requirements into pragmatic lifecycle processes and developer-friendly integrations. Outside of work he stays curious—constantly learning new technologies and hunting down the next great science fiction story—which reflects his belief that technologists should never stop learning. Based in Bryan, Texas, he pairs a collaborative, service-minded approach with a track record of measurable risk reduction and improved trust between systems and people.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Digital Entertainment Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Digital Entertainment Technology at Abilene Christian University
English
Github Skills (93)
stackoverflow10
terraform10
infrastructure10
terraform-module10
microsoft-identity-platform10
hashicorp10
documented10
active-directory10
graph10
authenticate10
api-documentation10
zeal10
aws10
devops10
terraform-cloud9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tamu-identity/org-structure-data
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
Organizational structure data for use in categorization by IT systems.
Contributions:8 releases, 10 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 4 months
organizationaldata-structure
gyamada619/dashlight
Mar 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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