Mike Vanbuskirk
Cloud & Site Reliability Engineer at IOD (iamondemand)
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolMike Vanbuskirk is a Cloud & Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and automating production-grade infrastructure across major CDN, cloud, and e-commerce platforms. He has led DevOps and SRE efforts at scale—modernizing Terraform estates, automating disaster recovery and scaling, and driving SOC2-ready infrastructure automation for teams from startups to enterprise. Hands-on with Kubernetes, GKE, AWS, GitHub Actions, and Golang, he blends platform engineering with backend feature work and observability (Grafana) to make systems easier to operate. A contributor to the well-regarded TruffleHog open-source project, he added S3 role-assumption scanning and improved artifact handling for credential discovery, reflecting a practical security mindset. Based in Grand Rapids, he also freelances as a technical writer and blogger, turning complex cloud topics into actionable guidance. Colleagues know him for favoring simple, testable infrastructure-as-code and for treating automation as a force-multiplier rather than an end in itself.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Networks Design and Management, Bachelor of Science - BS Networks Design and Management at Western Governors University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
devsecops10
secret-management10
security10
go10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
credentials10
s3-bucket10
dynamic-analysis8
infrastructure6
dns6
aws-lambda6
amazon-web-services6
environment-variables6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
trufflesecurity/trufflehog
Jan 2023 - Mar 2024
Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 29 PRs, 119 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mike contributed to the TruffleHog repository by improving the functionality of the S3 source, specifically adding role assumption capabilities to scan S3 buckets with credentials. They also worked on updating the Jira detector to match new variable tokens, including adding versioned interfaces. Furthermore, the user implemented temp directory and disk buffer management for artifact cleanup, improving efficiency and reliability. They also addressed S3 credential validation.
golangdynamic-analysisplacesecurity-toolssecurity
codevbus/resume
Mar 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:49 commits, 18 PRs, 45 pushes in 7 years 4 months
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