Summary
Marilyn Franklin is a Principal Security Engineer with 13 years of engineering experience and a decade-plus track record building scalable web applications and cloud-native infrastructure. She combines deep Ruby/Rails and Go development skills with seven years of DevOps expertise—Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Vault, CI/CD and multi-cloud (AWS/GCP)—to architect secure, maintainable systems and automated pipelines. At companies from startups to Stitch Fix she has led re-platforms, blue/green deploys, and measurable performance improvements (e.g., halving image sizes and boosting local Docker dev speed). An active open-source contributor, she’s worked on HashiCorp Waypoint, the Heroku Terraform Provider, and Honeycomb tooling, bringing real-world observability and deployment experience into her security work. Her background in psychology and training roles informs a collaborative leadership style focused on mentoring teams and operationalizing security without slowing delivery.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Minor in Spanish, Minor in Theology, 4.0, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Minor in Spanish, Minor in Theology, 4.0 at Lee University
Nashville Software School