Summary
Shane Bradfield is a Principal System Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and operating large-scale Linux, Windows, and cloud infrastructures. He has driven measurable impact across enterprises—cutting global vulnerability counts by two orders of magnitude at Mastercard and delivering $30k+ annual cloud savings through architecture and automation at ECS Tuning. Shane blends deep InfoSec expertise with pragmatic automation (PowerShell, Ansible, Pester) to reduce toil and improve reliability across hundreds of servers and 800+ retail locations. He’s fluent in container platforms, Azure and AWS patterns, and has led teams from hands-on systems work to production-ready platform ownership. An active communicator and mentor, he documents and shares insights on his technical blog, reflecting a continual commitment to learning and community contribution. Based in Akron, Ohio, he brings a rare mix of operational rigor and security-first architecture to infrastructure challenges.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Computer Programming, High School Computer Programming at Canton South High School
Bachelor’s Degree Information Assurance with an Applied Technologies Focus, Bachelor’s Degree Information Assurance with an Applied Technologies Focus at Eastern Michigan University