Ryan Welch
Principal Cloud DevOps Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRyan Welch is a Principal Cloud DevOps Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience securing cloud-native and containerized platforms for high-assurance federal environments. He specializes in Zero Trust, Kubernetes/OpenShift hardening, and automated CI/CD with Terraform, Ansible, GitLab/GitHub Actions to deliver continuous compliance against NIST 800-53, DHS 4300A, and FedRAMP controls. Ryan helped secure the DHS OBIM HART biometric platform supporting 275M+ identities, cutting exploitable CVEs across OpenShift microservices and preserving mission availability and strict false-match thresholds. He focuses on building automated security workflows that reduce manual toil, accelerate deployment velocity, and keep audit artifacts production-ready. Based in Houston, he blends systems engineering, vulnerability remediation, and mentor-level leadership to drive resilient, compliant cloud operations for federal and defense customers.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
discord5
minecraft5
checkout4
monitor4
slack4
polaris3
shopify3
discord-bot3
aide3
journal1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rizzryan/SplashSource
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 15 pushes in 13 days
atcadidasbotcheckout
ry4nthedev/Corlio
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.