Michael Ansel

Relevant Work Experience:

Twitch (Amazon)

Sr. Manager - Security Engineering: February 2021 - Present

  • Managed Twitch's exposure to public software vulnerabilities by coaching a team of 5 in building:

    • Repeatable and scalable response procedures

    • Automatic inventory collection across ~3,000 AWS accounts

    • Trust across the organization through well-crafted, data-driven requests for patching

  • Enabled data-driven incident response by aggregating 100TB/day of logs from ~3,000 AWS accounts in Splunk, scaling 50x in my time

  • Built a research and discovery team to collect data and build tools to reinforce and simplify Twitch executive's understanding of Twitch's threat model

  • Provided ~1,000 engineers with Tier 1 remote access to production

Sr. Security Engineer: June 2018 - February 2021

  • Designed a highly-scalable, multi-account vulnerability scanning system for AWS resources (1,000s of accounts, 100,000s of resources), and established data-driven security at Twitch

  • Developed tactical fixes for urgent, high-impact business needs and followed up with strategic long-term solutions, including a secure, multi-tenant system for allowing third-party workers access to highly sensitive data

  • Worked directly with Twitch executives to assess, manage, and accept security risk caused by proposed business decisions, including building a repeatable process for teammates to follow

Box

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer: May 2013 - June 2018

  • Built centralized secrets management infrastructure and managed the multi-year roadmap for comprehensive integration across the entire Box technical stack

  • Released and evangelized Secure ChatOps design and implementation through presentations at DevOpsDays and Velocity

  • Led a team of inexperienced developers in creating an extremely reliable, custom-routed, WebSocket load balancer/high-availability system with 100% availability since launch (4 years) - US 9,483,473

  • Advised teams working on fundamental redesigns of Box’s architecture to ensure new systems would be operationally sound, including the move from bare metal to Kubernetes

  • Led the response for many high-severity incidents, often coordinating across multiple development teams; responsible for the entire Box infrastructure

NetApp

Systems Architect: January 2012 - April 2013

  • Integral member of the team developing high-visibility converged infrastructure reference solutions (FlexPod) in response to customer needs, including personally building comprehensive deployment automation and support-focused validation tooling