Michael Hanson
Director - Cloud Security Specialist at Fidelity Investments
Amherst, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Hanson is a seasoned cloud security leader with 15 years of experience designing and operationalizing secure enterprise environments, currently serving as Director - Cloud Security Specialist at Fidelity Investments. He combines deep systems engineering roots—from SCCM and Altiris-era desktop management to modern Azure and IaC practices—with hands-on scripting expertise in PowerShell, Bash and C#. Michael has led cloud security strategy and remediation roadmaps for Fortune 100 clients and run Azure platform practices, bridging advisory work with practical automation. He contributes to widely used open-source projects such as the microsoft/fhir-server, where he focused on IaC, AAD automation and Prometheus metrics—an example of his knack for securing complex healthcare-grade infrastructure. Based in Amherst, NH, he pairs a .NET programming background with a pragmatic mindset for scaling secure operations and mentoring teams through large migrations and compliance initiatives. Notably, his career spans both deep operational wins (migrating thousands of endpoints) and modern cloud-native security implementations, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
.NET Programing Certificate Computer Software Engineering, .NET Programing Certificate Computer Software Engineering at Daniel Webster College
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Github Skills (21)
azuread10
bash10
azure-active-directory10
azure-cli10
active-directory10
aac10
powershell10
infrastructure-as-code10
cicd9
azure-keyvault9
smart-on-fhir9
hl7-fhir9
prometheus8
kubernetes-pods8
kubernetes8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fhir-server
Sep 2018 - Jul 2020
A service that implements the FHIR standard
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 40 PRs, 106 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on implementing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions and backend logic using PowerShell and Bash scripting to automate and configure the FHIR server's environment. Their contributions included creating PowerShell modules for Azure Active Directory (AAD) application registrations, adding checks for essential tools like `jq`, and writing scripts for managing AAD applications and setting up environments using Azure CLI. They also contributed to setting up Prometheus metrics.
hl7fhirazure-cosmos-dbazure-app-servicefhir-standard
ismrmrd/philips_to_ismrmrd
Apr 2015 - Mar 2017
Philips to ISMRMRD converter
Contributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 11 months
philipsconverter
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