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Jeremy Hicks

Security Architect

hello@reysic.com · reysic.com

Six years progressing from cloud security engineering to architecture and executive advisory at a fintech. Specializations: cloud IAM and policy-as-code, generative AI governance, and security controls for regulated environments. Open to remote Security Architect and CISO opportunities.

Work Experience

defi SOLUTIONS Sep 2019 - Present

Security Architect Aug 2021 - Present

  • Designed self-service IAM governance for GitHub Actions to Azure using Workload Identity Federation, eliminating long-lived credentials across CI/CD pipelines; built policy-as-code CI gates enforcing RBAC allow-lists, scope limits, and naming conventions
  • Developed AI governance framework: authored policies and standards, led security assessments of AI vendors, and implemented technical controls via CASB
  • Advises VPs and CIO on security architecture for new technology initiatives; develops enterprise security standards; leads escalations on cloud IAM, SSO, and automation
  • Application security testing using Burp Suite and OWASP ZAP; validation of external penetration test findings
  • Database security: TDE, column-level encryption, data masking, tokenization, auditing, and access control design
  • Mentors team of ~5 security engineers; leads weekly lunch-and-learn sessions; delivered companywide AI safety training

Lead Security Engineer Sep 2020 - Aug 2021

  • Primary incident POC; post-incident forensic investigation; SAST/DAST tooling with CI/CD integration; technical audit

Security Engineer IV Sep 2019 - Sep 2020

  • Implemented IAM controls (SSO, MFA, RBAC, PIM) and security automation via PowerShell and Azure Pipelines
  • Managed CSPM, SIEM, endpoint detection, DLP, CASB, and vulnerability tooling in Azure

HookBang Jun 2017 - Sep 2019

Advanced Software Engineer Nov 2018 - Sep 2019

  • Cloud infrastructure as code (AWS CloudFormation, Ansible); CI/CD maintenance; backend development in Node.js and Python

Software Engineer Jun 2017 - Nov 2018

  • Mobile AR game development (Unity); serverless web apps (Python, AWS Lambda); automated software testing

NetBoundary Sep 2014 - Jul 2015

IT Security Analyst

  • Security appliance monitoring (IDS/IPS, SIEM); incident response; PCI compliance reporting at a managed security service provider

Education

SMU Guildhall

Certificate in Digital Game Development, Software Development Specialization 2015 - 2017

UT Dallas

MS Applied Cognition and Neuroscience 2012 - 2014

BS Cognitive Science 2008 - 2012

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