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Ashton Tippin

Cybersecurity Engineer

I'm a cybersecurity engineer with a DevOps background, currently pursuing a master's in cybersecurity at Georgia Tech. I focus on cloud security, automation, and software development, and lately I've been diving into binary exploitation.

“Computers respect me.” — Ashton Tippin

Education

USF (Tampa) — B.S. Cybersecurity
Georgia Tech — M.S. Cybersecurity (in progress)

Certifications

CKAD
AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Focus

Cloud security & AWS Organizations governance (IAM, SCPs, RCPs)
Kubernetes operations and platform engineering
Python development & practical automation
CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD)
Binary exploitation (currently learning by breaking things on purpose)

Tooling

AWS Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, OKE, RKE2, OpenShift) Networking (VPC design, routing, segmentation) Python, Golang Terraform CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD) Linux systems administration Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Better Stack, OneUptime)