Jacob Frericks
Senior Software Security Engineer II at CVS Health
Des Moines Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Frericks is a Senior Software Security Engineer with 11 years of experience blending DevOps, cloud engineering, and security across enterprise environments. He currently secures software delivery at CVS Health after shaping cloud security and migration efforts at Hy-Vee and Principal, including refactoring claims services to AWS and early GCP microservices adoption. Jacob’s background spans hands-on work with Java/Spring Boot, Go, Docker/Kubernetes, serverless Lambdas, and CI/CD tooling, giving him fluency across application, infrastructure, and pipeline security. He’s comfortable translating compliance and confidentiality requirements into automated, production-ready controls and custom tooling. Based in the Des Moines area, he brings a pragmatic focus on making secure cloud platforms repeatable and developer-friendly—often by building the first-in-house solutions teams rely on.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, CS, Computer Science, Bachelor's, CS, Computer Science at Iowa State University
Github Skills (45)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JacobFrericks/website
Sep 2015 - Apr 2021
Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 8 months
JacobFrericks/plex-healthcheck
Oct 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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