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Thaddeus Anderson

Principal Cloud Security Engineer @ Empower

IT professional with a passion for automating the cloud. I love proactively finding solutions to problems and automating my way out of repetitive tasks. I like to stay ahead of things, but you'll never find me running from a good firefight. I use agentic AI to accelerate development and tackle complex automation challenges.

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▸Cloud Security

▸Agentic AI Development

▸AWS Architecture

▸AWS Automation

▸GitOps

▸CI/CD

▸Python

▸Terraform

▸AWS CDK

▸Infrastructure as Code

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CISSP

AWS Certified Security - Specialty

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

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Principal Cloud Security Engineer

Empower · Remote

Feb 2021 - Present

Security Engineer, focused on the automation and deployment of security-centric infrastructure and networking, as well as security standards and solutions, all in a complex cloud/hybrid environment, using primarily GitOps-based methods.

Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Empower · Denver, CO

Jul 2019 - Feb 2021

Senior Cloud Engineer

Advanced Network Management (ANM) · Denver, CO

Jun 2018 - Jul 2019

Consulting Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS architecture and automation.

Platform Engineer

ECS Team · Denver, CO

Dec 2016 - Jun 2018

Platform/automation engineer working with Pivotal Cloud Foundry on AWS.

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I believe in automating everything that can be automated, securing everything by default, and leveraging AI agents as collaborative partners in solving complex problems. The best solutions are the ones you never have to touch twice.

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Took a 14-month sabbatical to travel the world across 27 countries.