Dafante Stapleton
Cloud Security Engineer
Atlanta, GA (Remote / Hybrid) Email LinkedIn GitHub

Summary

Cloud Security Engineer with hands-on experience securing AWS environments, improving CI/CD pipelines, and automating detection and response. Skilled at identifying risks early and partnering with developers to close gaps quickly and cleanly.

Experience

Cloud Security Engineer Feb 2025 – Present · GA Judicial Council /AOC · Atlanta, GA
  • Secure modernization project across multiple AWS accounts & regions.
  • Investigate alerts across AWS, Azure AD, M365, and networks.
  • Strengthen guardrails, WAF, and IAM access practices.
  • Standardize response with runbooks/playbooks.
Security Analyst May 2024 – Feb 2025 · Karna LLC · Atlanta, GA
  • Led cloud security operations for detection, incident response, and HIPAA/NIST/CIS compliance.
  • Supported incident response + vulnerability remediation.
  • Performed SIEM tuning to enhance alert fidelity.
Security Analyst May 2023 – Mar 2024 · Nationwide IT services · Columbus, GA
  • Managed IT/security ops: Azure, on-prem, Jira, patching, access control.
  • Ran org-wide phishing awareness campaigns to improve security behavior.

Projects

Cloud Resume Challenge

My implementation of the Cloud Resume Challenge using AWS. AWS S3 static site + CloudFront + Route 53 + DynamoDB + Lambda (Python). IAM Privilege Checkser

A small, focused command-line tool for statically analyzing AWS IAM policy JSON.

AWS Secure Environment

A minimal but secure AWS environment with Terraform that enables logging, least privilege IAM, and a small private network footprint.

Security Pipeline

Implements a secure CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions to automatically scan: Terraform, Kubernetes manifests and Python application code.

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