Patrick Kelley
Salida, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Kelley is a security leader with 17+ years of hands-on experience building cloud and application security programs at Netflix, 23andMe, eBay, and Tinder. He combines deep technical expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, IAM automation, and Zero Trust with a track record of shipping open-source tools (Security Monkey, Aardvark, Repoman) and holding multiple security patents. Patrick has led large migrations, consolidated cloud and GitHub orgs post-acquisition, and operationalized scalable SIEM and logging across multi-brand environments. He excels at translating investigative tradecraft into engineering solutions—building Maltego transforms and custom tooling to support digital investigations and counterintelligence work. Comfortable both in war-room incident response and in mentoring teams, he pushes for secure-by-default Terraform modules and developer-friendly permission workflows. Based in Salida, Colorado, he balances rigorous technical leadership with community-minded contributions to cloud security tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Systems Engineering, BSE Computer Systems Engineering at Arizona State UniversityHigh School, High School at Ramstein American High School
Github Skills (14)
boto10
aws10
python10
scheduler9
configuration-management9
elasticsearchquery8
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
amazon-elasticsearch8
aws-elasticsearch8
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
rest-api7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/security_monkey
Nov 2014 - Nov 2017
Security Monkey monitors AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and GitHub orgs for assets and their changes over time.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 96 commits, 552 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Patrick contributed to the `security_monkey` project, which monitors cloud infrastructure for security vulnerabilities. The commits primarily focused on implementing and modifying watchers, particularly for Elastic IPs and SES identities. They introduced features like configurable SES regions and added checks for verified SES identities, demonstrating expertise in AWS services and the project's core functionality. The user also made changes to the scheduler and configuration files, indicating involvement in the project's overall architecture and deployment.
monitorsgcpvcentersecuritymonkey
Netflix-Skunkworks/cloudaux
Nov 2016 - Nov 2019
Cloud Auxiliary is a python wrapper and orchestration module for interacting with cloud providers
Contributions:2 reviews, 32 commits, 58 PRs in 3 years
gcppythonauxiliaryorchestrationpython-wrapper
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