Michael Neil
Software Engineer
Pacific Northwest, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Neil is an accomplished security engineering leader with 12 years of experience who currently serves as SVP Security Engineering at Citi, where he architects threat-informed defenses and mentors a team of 50+ engineers. He has designed SDLCs and over 2,000 custom security controls across AWS, Azure, and GCP and drove a single-pane observability approach that cut control lead time from 10 to 2 weeks. Michael led the build of an event-driven SaaS processing 90TB/month at sub-$1,500 monthly cost, delivering a 98% operational cost reduction through high-availability architectures. A hands-on engineer early in his career, he contributed to the stelligent/mu DevOps framework to improve deployment pipelines and configuration validation. He pairs product-minded engineering with measurable outcomes—auditing Terraform Enterprise to speed policy evaluation by 70% and presenting these lessons at AWS re:Invent. Based in Camas, WA, he blends startup product instincts with enterprise-scale security rigor.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
aws-cloudformation10
go10
aws10
devops10
cicd10
infrastructure-as-code9
configuration-management9
yaml8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
stelligent/mu
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
A full-stack DevOps on AWS framework
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:37 commits, 16 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the `mu` framework's deployment and pipeline capabilities. They added features for overriding pipeline timeouts, implemented new parameters for build and acceptance stages, and refactored the configuration validation process. The user also modified the stack management to support a default stack policy and added a CLI command for validating the configuration file.
awsdevopsfull-stackmicroservicepipeline
mneil/opa-dynamodb
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Scalable policy store with real-time policy updates using Open Policy Agent.
Contributions:52 commits, 9 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 months
open-policy-agentopadynamodb
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