Jeffrey Melvin
Engineering Manager, Cloud Security at Benchling
Ames, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Melvin is an engineering manager specializing in cloud security with 11 years of experience building automated, auditable security controls across AWS, containers, and CI/CD pipelines. Currently leading cloud security at Benchling, he previously scaled security programs at Workiva—managing teams, shepherding FedRAMP compliance migrations, and creating organization-wide vulnerability reporting and patching processes. He favors automation to amplify team impact and has a pragmatic “find a way to say yes” approach that drives collaborative solutions across product and infrastructure teams. His hands-on background spans container hardening, CSPM/CWPP adoption, Splunk analytics, and migrating legacy cron jobs to AWS Fargate at scale. With an MS in Information Assurance and early research experience in mobile security and malware analysis at MITRE, he brings both academic rigor and practical threat-focused perspective. Based in Ames, Iowa, he’s known for turning manual security toil into repeatable tooling that reduces headcount pressure while improving compliance posture.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Iowa State UniversityClasses Only, Classes Only at Saint Ambrose UniversityClasses Only, Classes Only at Clinton Community College
Github Skills (44)
splunk9
python-logging9
aws-lambda9
github-api9
logging9
python8
github-api-v37
pygithub7
github6
thrift5
react5
dart5
javascript5
websocket4
http4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jeffreymelvin-wf/test
Jan 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:139 commits, 25 PRs, 135 pushes in 4 years 10 months
jeffreymelvin-wf/test2
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 2 pushes, 17 branches in 1 month
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