Ricky White
Lead Engineer, Enterprise Identity, Credential, And Access Management (E-ICAM) at United States Department of the Army
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRicky White is a lead engineer specializing in enterprise identity, credential, and access management with over a decade of experience delivering secure, scalable systems across government and commercial environments. He combines hands-on software development (Python, Go, PowerShell) and open-source contributions—such as implementing a Thycotic credential plugin for the popular Ansible AWX project—with strategic leadership in IAM, PAM, and Zero Trust architectures. At the U.S. Army he led large-scale PAM and authenticator rollouts that protected thousands of privileged sessions and migrated users to phishing-resistant authenticators months ahead of schedule. He’s delivered multi-million-dollar cost avoidance through infrastructure optimization and reduced deployment lead times by re-engineering change management. A former critical care nurse, Ricky brings calm decision-making and risk management to high-pressure technical operations and mentors engineering teams to improve velocity and reliability. He is available for short-term consulting to help startups and small businesses modernize identity, automate workflows, and harden security posture.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours Professional Nursing Practice, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours Professional Nursing Practice at London South Bank UniversityDipHE Adult Nursing, DipHE Adult Nursing at De Montfort University
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Github Skills (14)
ansible-galaxy10
backend10
back-end-development10
python10
django10
ansible10
automation9
automations9
api8
testing8
apidoc8
django-rest-framework7
django-rest7
react4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/awx
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 20 days
Contributions summary:Ricky focused on adding and refining a credential plugin for Thycotic Secret Server within the AWX project. Their contributions included the initial implementation of the plugin, including input fields and backend logic. They made iterative updates, correcting import errors and adapting the plugin for SDK compatibility. Further contributions include integrating the new credential type into the test suite.
pythondjangored-hathatupstream
thycotic/python-tss-sdk
May 2021 - Jun 2022
The Thycotic Secret Server Python SDK
Contributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 22 PRs in 1 year
python-serverpythonthycoticsecret-serversdk
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