Stacy Watts
Senior Platform Security Engineer
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolStacy Watts is a Senior Platform Security Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and securing cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and GCP. She blends deep systems engineering chops—serverless, Terraform, Ansible/Puppet automation, Python and Ruby—with a strong security focus developed through platform and MSS roles at companies like Okta, BlueVoyant, and ThreatX. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise environments, she has repeatedly turned operational pain points into automated, auditable workflows and has a track record of improving developer velocity. Stacy’s technical foundation is grounded in a Master’s in Computer Science from Portland State University and an uncommon background that spans horticulture to geophysics, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity and systems-thinking approach.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Portland State UniversityBS Horticulture, BS Horticulture at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigndiploma Geophysics Cosmology Modern Physics Calculus French Chemistry early web/nix, diploma Geophysics Cosmology Modern Physics Calculus French Chemistry early web/nix at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
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Github Skills (103)
python10
security10
ssl10
lemur10
aws10
product-design9
organize9
json-encoder9
graph9
certificate9
decoder9
golang8
encoder8
encoding8
programming-language8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stacybird/talks
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
Place to put my talks so folks can find them, share them, contribute to resources easily
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
placeshare
stacybird/CS594
May 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:53 commits in 25 days
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