Michael Ansel
Senior Manager - Security at Lambda
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Ansel is a seasoned security and infrastructure leader with 17 years of experience building highly reliable, data-driven systems across cloud and on-prem environments. Currently Senior Manager - Security at Lambda after leading security engineering at Twitch, he scaled log aggregation to handle 100TB/day across ~3,000 AWS accounts and coached teams to automate inventory, patching, and incident response. He has deep SRE roots from Box and NetApp, delivering production-grade systems like a custom WebSocket load balancer with years of uninterrupted availability and centralized secrets management. Michael combines tactical fixes for urgent business needs with strategic programs—creating multi-account vulnerability scanners, secure multi-tenant access for third-party workers, and executive-facing threat modeling. An active contributor to open-source (notably improvements to Hubot’s core Listener and Robot classes), he blends hands-on code changes with operational leadership. Based in Raleigh, he is known for translating complex technical risk into repeatable, auditable processes that earn organizational trust.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Science, BSE Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Science at Duke University
Github Skills (8)
asynchronous10
middleware10
coffeescript10
async10
software-design9
bots9
javascript8
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hubotio/hubot
Oct 2014 - Nov 2015
A customizable life embetterment robot.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:117 commits, 42 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Michael implemented several improvements to the Listener and Robot classes within the Hubot framework. These changes included adding an options argument to the Listener constructor, adding a default identifier, and validating arguments within the Listener constructor. Further contributions included refactoring the Listener middleware, including error handling, making it asynchronous, and streamlining the execution flow.
roboticsbotchatrobotcustomizable
michaelansel/dukenow
Mar 2009 - Aug 2009
Contributions:151 commits in 4 months
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