Hi there, my name is Asher Best
I'm a DevSecOps EngineerDevOps EngineerSecurity EngineerDevSecOps Engineer

With 7+ years across DevOps, security, and cloud engineering, I specialize in the space where fast delivery and secure infrastructure aren't in tension, they are the same goal. My day-to-day spans owning production reliability on AWS and GCP, securing CI/CD pipelines from code review to deployment, and building observability that actually tells you something useful before 3am does.

I've led enterprise-scale migrations, built compliance posture from scratch across SOC2, NIST, and CIS frameworks, and introduced Agile and automation culture to teams that didn't have one. I hold CompTIA CySA+, Security+, and Network+ certifications and am actively pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science and an A.A.S. in Information Systems Cybersecurity.

Outside of work I'm a coder by habit. There's always a side project running, whether it's a neural network trained to detect galaxies or a Kubernetes pipeline I built for fun. I'm equally drawn to astrophysics, space exploration, and the growing intersection of AI and scientific discovery. My long-term goal is to bridge cloud-scale engineering with computational research, ideally working on systems that help us understand the universe a little better.