Shawn Wells
Founder & CEO at Twin Eagle Holdings
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Wells is a seasoned cybersecurity and technology leader with 14 years of experience building strategy, advisory, and go-to-market capability for public sector and enterprise clients while founding multiple firms. As Founder & CEO of Mission IT and Twin Eagle Holdings he combines hands-on security engineering knowledge (including contributions to ComplianceAsCode automation efforts) with venture and investment acumen. He has led global solution architecture and cybersecurity strategy teams at CrowdStrike, Red Hat, and Accenture, specializing in zero trust, identity, cloud, SASE/edge, and private 5G for government customers. A former signals analyst for NSA and analyst at the CIA, he brings rare operational tradecraft perspective to modern cloud-native security problems. Shawn holds advanced cybersecurity degrees and executive certificates from institutions including Western Governors University, MIT Sloan, and Carnegie Mellon, and writes for Forbes Technology Council, blending practitioner rigor with strategic insight.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
[IN PROGRESS] Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), Strategy and Innovation, [IN PROGRESS] Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), Strategy and Innovation at Capella UniversityChief Information Officer (CIO) Certificate, Chief Information Officer (CIO) Certificate at Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public PolicyNational Cryptologic School (NCS)Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation, Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation at MIT Sloan School of ManagementMaster of Science - MS, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at Western Governors UniversityCertificate in Project Management, Certificate in Project Management at Georgetown UniversityEnergy Innovation and Emerging Technologies Certificate, Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies Certificate at Stanford University
Github Skills (5)
bash10
security-automation10
xslt10
build-automation9
compliance9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
ComplianceAsCode/content
Mar 2012 - Apr 2020
Security automation content in SCAP, Bash, Ansible, and other formats
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 2723 commits, 878 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily focused on restructuring the output directory and updating build configurations for creating an RPM. Their work also included modifications to security-related transformations and XSLT stylesheets. The user was also responsible for a variety of security-related automation efforts, including adding support for various security and compliance features, such as, enforcing a 15-character minimum password.
compliancecpescapsecurity-hardeningnessus
shawndwells/standards
Nov 2017 - Aug 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
requirementindustry-standardsstandardsindustryopencontrol
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