# Ambrose Piambo

> Aiming to improve the world, one commit at a time.

Location: Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ambrosepiambo

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Strong engineering professional with a Master of Science - MS focused in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance from Western Governors University.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ MX
Jan 2023 – Present | Lehi, Utah, United States
MX provides financial solutions, enabling users to gain better control over their financial health. I help build the web scraping platform built in JavaScript/TypeScript that handles 700k requests per day with average job duration <30 seconds to handle time-sensitive features like IAV, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.

Stack: JavaScript/TypeScript (Node); Linux (Debian); IaC (Terraform/KCC); Cloud (AWS/GCP)

- Optimized CI/CD pipelines to reduce durations by 57% from ~7 minutes down to ~3 minutes per deploy, significantly increasing throughput for software releases.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Ops, SRE, and Product, to streamline processes and enhance communication, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
- Implemented SAST/IAC code scanning tools like Snyk to remediate vulnerabilities of NPM packages, container images, and OS vulnerabilities, resulting in a more secure software environment.
- Performed application, container hardening, and enabled container build attestations via SBOM and provenance build annotations.
- Enhanced technical documentation practices by documenting procedures and processes, implementing runbooks for on-call duties, and onboarding documentation ensuring that all team members have access to the most up-to-date information.
- Managed Terraform and Kubernetes Config Connector definitions for AWS and GCP resources to ensure consistent deployment and configuration of resources across cloud platforms.
- Mentor junior engineers on recommended design patterns/architecture, review merge requests for all changes, and monitor releases to ensure system stability while promoting best coding practices and knowledge sharing within the team.

### Backend Software Engineer @ MX
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Utah, United States
Maintained webhook application/infrastructure that sends hundreds of thousands of events to customers as their respective data was mutated throughout our data enhancement pipelines, ensuring timely and accurate notifications

Stack: Ruby on Rails; Linux (Debian); Kubernetes; Hashicorp Nomad

- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement software solutions that enhance the customer experience.
- Reviewed and updated existing documentation to reflect current project standards and practices, enhancing usability for future developers.
- Developed and implemented security best practices for CI/CD processes, like SAST/IaC scanners and container hardening, ensuring robust protection against potential threats.

### Software Design Engineer @ Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Salt Lake City Area
Utah System of Higher Education is the governing body for public higher education in Utah, overseeing universities and colleges in the state. I maintained the codebase for a Student Information System while migrating legacy code to modern standards and enhancing overall system performance and increasing developer experience.

Stack: ASP.NET MVC/WPF; WCF; MSSQL; Windows Server

- Participated in quarterly meetings with stakeholders from all the technical colleges to prioritize features, bug reports, and other initiatives within the project, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Partnered with DynaTrace to implement POCs to demonstrate usefulness of application monitoring and tracing to improve visibility of application errors and performance.

### Development and Operations Engineer @ Neumont University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Salt Lake City
Neumont University specializes in undergraduate and graduate programs, emphasizing hands-on learning and industry collaboration. I maintained the management of in-house applications and their seamless integration with the CampusVue Student Information System to enhance functionality and efficiency.

Stack: .NET Framework/.NET; MSSQL; ASP.NET MVC; Angular

- Designed and deployed a scalable OIDC SSO solution that streamlined authentication processes, significantly improving user experience across multiple internal applications.
- Maintain server and networking infrastructure capable of handling thousands of devices and mission-critical services while ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
- Led committee to ensure internal policies and practices align with FERPA regulations while promoting a culture of compliance and accountability across the organization.
- Implemented Jira ticketing software to improve IT efficiency and tracking across various departments, streamlining communication and reducing response times.

### DevOps Engineer @ LeisureLink Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Salt Lake City Area
• Created AWS EC2 automation for communicating with Ansible configuration servers
• Developed core dashboards to view application stability
• Assisted with migrations on on-premises applications to Amazon AWS
• Lead small team to implement anti-virus software across the company
• Identified and resolved key issues with highly available applications
• Tasked with automating key processes to reduce overhead with detecting and configuring elastic compute instances on Amazon AWS
• Served as point of contact for external vendors regarding the integration of vulnerability assessments and anti-virus suites
• Rebuilt and upgraded key servers while maintaining up-time agreements
• Automated deployment of Jenkin CI containers with Bash scripts
• Architected solution to automatically configure EC2 instances with Ansible
• Created automation scripts to deploy MongoDB sharded clusters

### Independent Contractor @ ProStar Management
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Orem, UT
• Documented existing infrastructure for company-wide rebuild
• Patched and upgraded existing servers including Active Directory Domain Controllers
• Updated access controls for users and security groups for employees from various offices
• Updated directory structure for more efficient administrative access
• Inspected branch locations to verify access controls into the building/secure areas functioned, disabled ethernet ports in public areas, etc.
• Assisted the overhaul of corporate infrastructure
• Documented and facilitated hardware setups at main headquarters and branch offices
• Rebuilt and upgraded key servers while maintaining up-time agreements


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
Western Governors University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Information Systems
Neumont University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ambrosepiambo

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Last updated: 2026-03-22