Michael Richardson
Enterprise Solutions Engineer at Wiz
Marietta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Richardson is an Enterprise Solutions Engineer with nearly two decades of computing experience and a nine-year track record in enterprise roles, blending deep security engineering with hands-on systems and DevOps know-how. He has supported organizations from small dev teams to Fortune 500s, delivering network design, software engineering, incident troubleshooting, and security consulting informed by an MS in Information Security from Georgia Tech. At Wiz he applies practical threat and cloud security expertise, building on prior senior engineering roles at FireEye and Check Point. An active hobbyist and open-source contributor, he has added Ansible modules and CI/CD integration for Palo Alto Networks NGFWs, demonstrating a knack for translating device-level control into automation. Colleagues rely on him to quickly understand and integrate complex technologies while keeping operational reliability front and center.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
orchestration10
orchestra10
python10
security10
devops9
provisioning9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PaloAltoNetworks/ansible-pan
Apr 2018 - Jul 2020
Ansible modules for Palo Alto Networks NGFWs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 29 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development of Ansible modules for Palo Alto Networks NGFWs. Their work involved creating modules for managing static routes, software upgrades/downgrades, security and NAT rules, and other object manipulations. They also updated documentation and examples to guide users. The user demonstrated DevOps skills by adding and integrating with Jenkins CI/CD.
palo-altonetwork-automationaltoansibleansible-modules
PaloAltoNetworks/terraform-iac-lab
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
Infrastructure as Code lab using Terraform and GCP
Contributions:4 reviews, 33 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 5 months
gcppan-osinfrastructurevm-seriesas-code
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