Summary
Rick Wicker is an experienced identity and access management engineering leader with 12 years of hands-on software and DevOps experience, currently serving as Assistant Director at EY. He specializes in reducing production risk for IAM releases by automating build, test, and deployment pipelines using tools like Ansible, Jenkins, TFS/Azure DevOps and Red-Gate, and writes robust WebAPI and Angular front-ends backed by Entity Framework. Known for championing test-driven development and teaching engineering best practices, he combines pragmatic automation (“do it once and never see it again”) with strong coding and test discipline. His background spans large financial institutions where he led lifecycle and identity teams and migrated applications to automated CI/CD, and he brings a rare mix of Python, C#, and infrastructure automation fluency from mobile to enterprise systems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Kentucky