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Tam Nguyen.
Principal Security Architect.

Principal Security Architect with 13+ years of experience in cloud security, enterprise digital transformation, and cybersecurity incident response. Proven expertise in AWS security architecture, regulatory compliance, and large-scale cloud migrations for highly regulated industries. Experienced in leading multi-million-dollar engagements across incident response, privileged access management, AI/ML security, and DevSecOps. Published thought leader with 21 AWS blogs garnering 200K+ views. Known for translating complex security requirements into scalable, cloud-native solutions.

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13+

Years Experience

Certifications

Published Works

200K+

Blog Views

Career

Experience

Principal Security Architect

Amazon Web Services

November 2019 – Present Houston, TX

Architected and delivered security solutions for highly regulated financial services customers to securely utilize AWS identity, compute, serverless, machine learning, and generative AI services while adhering to strict regulatory and resiliency requirements.
Served as delivery technical lead for multiple work streams across 30 team members for an $11MM SOW, providing oversight and hands-on implementation spanning incident response, monitoring & logging, sensitive data management, privileged access management, data migration & backup, and AI/ML.
Spearheaded $4MM enterprise digital transformation migrating hundreds of workloads from on-premise to AWS, leveraging cloud-native tools and providing guidance on enterprise standards across DevOps, infrastructure, security, networking, and operations.
Established and led enterprise-wide security programs including deployment of air-gap forensic environments for ransomware prevention, developing automated containment and remediation workflows for virtual machines and containers, and conducting red-team simulations and threat models.
Authored 24 public-facing AWS blogs with solutions for enterprise security posture improvement using AWS security services, customized incident response solutions in the AWS Solutions Library, machine learning for security data analysis, and generative AI for threat hunting — obtaining over 200K views.
Operated on the AWS Cybersecurity Incident Response team providing guidance for AWS customers with security incidents across containment, eradication, recovery, post-incident activity, and root-cause analysis.

Cloud & Security Consultant

Slalom Consulting

March 2015 – November 2019 Houston, TX

Performed security assessments for Fortune 500 AWS and Azure environments to identify information security risks and provide prioritized recommendations to remediate vulnerabilities and risks.
Developed enterprise-wide cloud security framework to secure highly confidential workloads and provided direction for enterprise architecture, infrastructure support, and business application teams to adhere to security framework controls while designing multi-cloud hybrid environments.
Established and documented cloud-specific security policies to manage encryption, data protection, identity access management, firewall management, password/key management, and security incident and event management.

IT Consultant

Deloitte Consulting LLP

September 2012 – March 2015 Houston, TX

Directed offshore team members and oversaw quality assurance, including developing test cases and scripts, conducting risk assessments, establishing key performance indicators, and creating project plans.
Facilitated penetration and user acceptance testing, creating test scripts and resource plans, driving efforts for end-to-end test scenarios, identifying required test data, standardizing defect reporting, performing defect root cause analysis, and translating required fixes to the development team.

Expertise

Skills & Certifications

Cloud Platforms

AWSSecurity HubGuardDutyIAMKMSCloudTrailConfigMacieInspectorBedrockSageMakerAzure

Code/Scripting

BashCDK/CloudFormationGolangPowerShellPythonTerraformTypeScript

Security Frameworks

ISO 27001NIST 800-53CISCCMFedRAMPOWASPITIL

Security Domains

Incident ResponseThreat ModelingRed Team SimulationsForensic AnalysisPrivileged Access ManagementData ProtectionContainer Security

Certifications

CISSPAWS Certified AI PractitionerAWS Certified Cloud PractitionerAWS Certified Developer AssociateAWS Certified Solutions Architect AssociateAWS Certified SysOps Administrator AssociateAWS Certified DevOps Engineer ProfessionalAWS Certified Solutions Architect ProfessionalAWS Certified Security SpecialtyAWS Certified Advanced Networking SpecialtyAWS SME

Tam Nguyen.Principal Security Architect.

Experience

Principal Security Architect

Cloud & Security Consultant

IT Consultant

Skills & Certifications

Cloud Platforms

Code/Scripting

Security Frameworks

Security Domains

Certifications

Education

Tam Nguyen.
Principal Security Architect.