Donovan Ellison
Cloud Security Engineer
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- dvaneson@gmail.com
- Website
- https://dvaneson.com
- Donovan Ellison
- GitHub
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Experience
– present
Cloud Security Engineer
Apree Health
Highlights
- As the inaugural Cloud Security Engineer, led security initiatives throughout a year-and-a-half long data center migration to GCP.
- Enforced CIS standards with Policy-as-Code for hundreds of GCP projects, ensuring compliance with encryption key usage and preventing misconfigurations such as publicly accessible GCS buckets.
- Spearheaded an initiative to optimize Terraform pipelines, slashing wait times due to handoffs from 2 hours to just 30 minutes, resulting in significant time savings for both approvers and requesters.
- Successfully implemented egress filtering for URLs in PHI environments, a pivotal step in achieving HITRUST certification. Orchestrated the deployment of DiscrimiNAT across 6 VPCs, effectively filtering traffic in 27 environments with over 900 unique FQDNs.
- Developed a Python Flask application empowering developers to create temporary egress firewall rules in lower environments, circumventing the 24-hour SLA for FQDN additions. This innovation saved thousands of engineering hours, allowing uninterrupted development and testing.
- Revived and optimized scrum practices within the security team, taking a leadership role in restarting meetings and configuring Jira boards.
- Introduced sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective sessions, resulting in an outstanding 77% reduction in Lead Time for ticket completion, from an average of 61.3 days to just 13.8 days after 3 months.
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Site Reliability Engineer
Zapproved
Highlights
- Designed and implemented an AWS solution for managing SSH keys on TeamCity agents across multiple AWS accounts.
- Analyzed and resolved an Elasticsearch cluster issue that caused day long logging outages, sometimes multiple times a week.
- Spearheaded the refactoring of the Kubernetes solution.
- Developed a roadmap for Kubernetes improvements by evaluating different tools, researching best practices, creating proof of concepts, and meeting with key stakeholders.
Projects
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Functional Programming for Systems Software
Highlights
- Published an assessment of Habit, an experimental functional language for low-level programming.
- Compared Habit with C by implementing a page table in both languages.
- Used x86 Assembly to enable IA-32 paging and setup system calls.
Education
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Bachelor of Science in
Computer Science, University Honors
Portland State University
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