Joe Vacovsky
Systems Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Atascadero, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Vacovsky is a Systems Development Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience reducing the human cost of operating systems and applications at scale, now working on Amazon Security Platform Engineering after a multi-year stint in Industrial IoT at AWS. He blends a strong operational background—from the U.S. Army Signal School through enterprise roles at MINDBODY and Cal Poly—with modern DevOps and automation expertise to dramatically cut manual toil for critical deployments and configuration management. Joe contributes to open-source tooling such as the widely used saml2aws CLI, where he enhanced Shibboleth support and integrated Duo MFA flows, showing attention to secure, user-facing auth workflows. Based in Atascadero, CA, he pairs systems thinking with practical engineering to ship resilient, auditable solutions that scale. He brings a pragmatic mix of security-conscious platform engineering and a long-standing commitment to automation that often surfaces in behind-the-scenes reliability improvements.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Maryland University CollegeInformation Systems Analyst (25B), Management Information Systems and Services, Information Systems Analyst (25B), Management Information Systems and Services at US Army Signal School, Ft. Gordon, GABachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science / Pre-Law, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science / Pre-Law at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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Github Skills (10)
shibboleth-sp10
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
shibboleth10
saml10
aws9
linux5
macos5
windows5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Versent/saml2aws
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
CLI tool which enables you to login and retrieve AWS temporary credentials using a SAML IDP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Joe focused on enhancing the Shibboleth provider functionality within the `saml2aws` CLI tool. They implemented support for Duo multi-factor authentication, including handling push notifications, passcodes, and phone calls. Key changes involved modifying the Shibboleth provider's authentication flow to integrate with Duo's API and user interface, as well as updating the tool's core logic to correctly parse and process authentication tokens. They also updated other files to import the newly implemented provider.
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vacovsky/pirri
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:214 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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