Summary
Stacy Watts is a Senior Platform Security Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and securing cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and GCP. She blends deep systems engineering chops—serverless, Terraform, Ansible/Puppet automation, Python and Ruby—with a strong security focus developed through platform and MSS roles at companies like Okta, BlueVoyant, and ThreatX. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise environments, she has repeatedly turned operational pain points into automated, auditable workflows and has a track record of improving developer velocity. Stacy’s technical foundation is grounded in a Master’s in Computer Science from Portland State University and an uncommon background that spans horticulture to geophysics, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity and systems-thinking approach.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Portland State University
BS, Horticulture, BS, Horticulture at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
diploma, Geophysics, Cosmology, Modern Physics, Calculus, French, Chemistry, early web/nix, diploma, Geophysics, Cosmology, Modern Physics, Calculus, French, Chemistry, early web/nix at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
French