Walter Goulet
Principal Security Engineer - PKI at Axon
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Goulet is a Principal Security Engineer specializing in PKI with 12+ years designing and shipping identity, certificate, and key management solutions across enterprises and SaaS platforms. He blends a consultant’s customer-centric perspective with product leadership experience—having led CIAM replacement and privileged access launches that delivered measurable cost savings and revenue. Walter has moved between hands-on engineering, global professional services, and product management roles at companies like Venafi, Okta, and MasterControl, driving migrations, least-privilege access controls, and go-to-market readiness. He’s comfortable architecting large-scale PKI and SSH programs for Fortune 2000 customers and has lived on-site abroad to operationalize regional services. Known for turning complex security requirements into practical, auditable systems, he also writes tooling and extensions to streamline certificate discovery and remediation. Based in Chicago, he pairs a technical MS in Network Security with a proven track record of shipping secure, customer-focused solutions.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Information and Network Security, MS Computer Information and Network Security at DePaul UniversityB.S Computer Science, B.S Computer Science at Augusta State University
Github Skills (59)
zeromq10
python10
hashicorp-vault10
configuration-management10
infrastructure-management10
infrastructure10
key-generation10
command-line-utility10
infrastructure-as-code10
remote-execution10
ssl9
package-repository9
docker9
devops9
golang9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wgoulet/CTPyClient
Jan 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 1 year 1 month
pythoncertificate-transparencytlscertificatetransparency
wgoulet/EasyOpenSSLCA
Jul 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:5 pushes in 6 years 9 months
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