Matthew Gladney
Organizing Committee at fwd:cloudsec
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Gladney is a cloud security engineering leader with 11+ years of experience designing identity-first security architectures that enable developer autonomy across massive estates. He has led strategy and platform engineering for environments scaling to 25,000+ AWS accounts and 13M+ cloud assets, and helped build CIEM and CSPM systems now proven in enterprise and vendor products. A two-time acquisition survivor, he brings patented innovations in cloud data and access analysis and hands-on experience shipping full-stack security platforms. Matthew is an active open-source contributor (notably to cloud-custodian) and has built large-scale data architectures such as AssetDB and internal token and IAM distribution services. Based in Washington, DC, he blends security theory with practical engineering—often keeping a hand on the keyboard while guiding high-level strategy. He also organizes community events (fwd:CloudSec) and occasionally blogs and publishes code exploring the intersection of security, data, and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Economics and History, BA, Economics and History at The George Washington UniversityCertificate, Web Technologies, Certificate, Web Technologies at Harvard University
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Github Skills (25)
cloud-computing10
python10
rule-engine10
aws10
yaml10
serverless10
engine10
compliance6
firebase6
angular6
sql-server6
nodejs6
vue6
angularjs6
docker6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the `cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian` project by implementing and testing new features, specifically related to AWS SageMaker models, and extending existing functionality with tagging and deletion actions. Their work also included refactoring and integrating existing actions and filters for reusability across various SageMaker resources. Additionally, the user addressed and fixed issues related to the SNS modify-policy action, including incorporating account ID and region variable interpolation. They also modified the project's infrastructure for cloud security and resource governance.
gcpquery-filterserverlesscompliancecloud-security
getglad/cloud-custodian
Jan 2018 - Feb 2022
Rules engine for AWS management, DSL in yaml for query, filter, and actions on resources
Contributions:49 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 1 month
queryconfiguration-languagecloud-infrastructurequery-filterdsl
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