Ty Martin
Manager, DevOps Engineering at VergeSense
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolTy Martin is a results-driven Manager of DevOps Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building secure, highly available cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines from startups to enterprise. Based in Minneapolis, he moved from hands-on SRE work—managing AWS fleets, migrations to Docker/ECS, and automating image and deployment pipelines—to leading engineering teams that prioritize reliability, security, and operational excellence. He has a strong security focus demonstrated by contributions to the popular Checkov project (adding checks for encrypted RDS/Redshift, security group descriptions, and ECS insights) and a track record of modernizing toolchains with CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure-as-code. Comfortable in high-pressure environments, Ty pairs meticulous operational rigor with clear communication and mentorship, and brings a practical, farm-honed work ethic traced back to his NoDak roots.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Minot High SchoolB.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Carleton College
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Github Skills (13)
it-security10
terraformer10
infrastructure-as-code10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
terraform10
security10
encryption9
devops9
python9
static-analysis8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Security Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Security EngineerContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 13 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Ty primarily focused on enhancing the security and compliance aspects of the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) within the repository. This involved implementing checks for encryption in Redshift and RDS clusters using CloudFormation and Terraform. Additional contributions included ensuring security group rules had descriptions and adding a check for ECS cluster container insights. The user also worked on the cloudformation skip comments to help in the scanning processes.
gcppolicy-as-codecomplianceaws-securityaws
vergesense/gha-workflow-ci
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
CI for github-actions workflow files.
Contributions:1 release, 11 reviews, 2 PRs in 1 year
github-actions-workflowdevopsworkflow-actionsrelease-managementworkflow-files
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