Larry Anderson
Co-Founder Principal Engineer at Ocelot Consulting
Greater St. Louis United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLarry Anderson is a Co-Founder and Principal Engineer with 20+ years of experience designing and operating highly available, maintainable systems across cloud, application, and infrastructure layers. He specializes in translating ambiguous, high-risk problems into pragmatic architectures that balance reliability, security, and business outcomes—frequently leading platform modernization, identity/security, and data platform initiatives for large enterprises. His hands-on work includes serverless orchestration with AWS Step Functions/Fargate, Terraform-driven CI/CD, OAuth-based identity solutions, and custom containerized services using Node.js, Scala, and PostgreSQL/MongoDB. A trusted consultant and delivery lead, he has driven preventative cloud security by integrating Bridgecrew Checkov into pipelines and contributed performance improvements to the popular open-source Checkov project. He pairs technical depth with an MBA-informed business perspective, mentoring teams to leave platforms and organizations stronger than he found them. Based in Greater St. Louis, he also pursues entrepreneurial and real-estate ventures, reflecting a practical, ownership-driven approach to risk and growth.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science w/ Business Minor, B.S., Computer Science w/ Business Minor at Olivet Nazarene UniversityMBA, Business Administration/Finance, MBA, Business Administration/Finance at Saint Louis UniversityM.S., Software Engineering, M.S., Software Engineering at George Mason UniversityProject Management, Project Management at Baltimore Chapter PMI
Github Skills (10)
infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
python10
terraform10
devops9
aws8
gcp7
kubernetes6
kubernetes-pods6
static-analysis5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 18 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Larry contributed to performance enhancements within the Terraform plan processing functionality. This involved code changes to improve efficiency, including optimizations and adjustments to how newline indexes are handled. Furthermore, the user implemented changes related to the enrichment of resources within the plan, including adding new enrichment roots. These changes are likely aimed at improving the overall performance and functionality of the Checkov tool.
gcppolicy-as-codecomplianceaws-securityaws
MonsantoCo/glass-key
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 months
sprayoauth2clientsoauthcommon-library
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