Tyler Wengerd
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Senior Cloud Architect I
"Tenacious"
he/him
Cloud Architect with 10+ years of cloud expertise, both on AWS and GCP. Focused on security, networking, and IaC.
When I'm not at work, you might find me riding my bicycle or playing the ukulele (not simultaneously).
- Security
- Networking
- AWS
- GCP
My Certifications
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Jun 17, 2024)
Expires Jun 17, 2027
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Sep 16, 2024)
Expires Sep 16, 2027
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Sep 16, 2024)
Expires Sep 16, 2027
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Apr 15, 2024)
Expires Apr 15, 2027
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Jul 9, 2026)
Expires Jul 9, 2029
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Jul 9, 2026)
Expires Jul 9, 2029
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Sep 16, 2024)
Expires Sep 16, 2027
AWS Partner: Accreditation (Technical)
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Aug 25, 2025)
Expires Aug 25, 2028
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Google (last renewed/obtained: Dec 5, 2025)
Expires Dec 5, 2027
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Google (last renewed/obtained: Sep 26, 2025)
Expires Sep 26, 2027
Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate
Hashicorp (last renewed/obtained: Feb 21, 2025)
Expires Feb 21, 2027
Hashicorp Certified Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional
Hashicorp (last renewed/obtained: Feb 21, 2025)
Expires Feb 21, 2027
What my customers say
Tyler Wengerd was awesome. He took the time to understand my use case to make the cloudflow solution fit. A big thank you to Tyler.
camunda.com · Jun 2026
What I'm writing
JA3 and JA4 Fingerprints in AWS WAF and Beyond
DoiT CREs dive into some of the latest client fingerprinting techniques with a focus on using them alongside AWS WAF
Sharing Secrets in AWS Parameter Store
Best practices for sharing secrets using AWS Parameter Store, and when does using AWS Secrets Manager makes more sense
Frequently asked
questions
What do you do at DoiT?
- - Run security assessments
- - Triage security incident investigations
- - Architect network and DNS designs
- - Troubleshoot permissions issues
- - Test out new features and services
Overall, though, I'm here because I like working with people and I like solving problems. If you're a person with a problem (who isn't?), maybe I can help.
I want to improve my security in AWS. Where do I start?
Want to learn more? We do security assessments all the time for DoiT customers, and I'd be happy to help you out. We also can automatically generate security insights for you!
I'm used to AWS (or GCP) and I'm trying to learn GCP (or AWS). What are some big differences?
- - AWS IAM roles are similar to Google Cloud's Service accounts. Google's service accounts and AWS IAM role can both be assigned to resources to give them permissions.
- - Google IAM roles are sets of permissions, similar to AWS IAM policies
- - If you need external access to AWS from a service, traditionally you created an IAM user with an access key. Google allows you to create keys for service accounts. These days, IAM Roles Anywhere are recommended, instead of IAM users, to allow external service access to AWS.
I might add a non-network/security answer here eventually. Keep an eye out!
What is a JA4 fingerprint?
Terraform? CloudFormation? Something else?
Disagree? That's okay – different strokes for different folks
Do you like dogs?
I love dogs! (See the GIF FAQ below.) I also love cats. Most animals, really. Snakes and lizards are cool and I enjoy seeing them in the wild and in my yard. Goats seem like a lot of fun, but they need way more space than I have right now. But yeah, uh, dogs! Dogs are great.
What's your favorite GIF?
Got 53 minutes? Check out this episode of DoiT's Cloud Masters podcast:
pro tip: it's only 35 1⁄3 minutes if you do 1.5x speedTime zone not a fit?
I'm on US Eastern time, but sometimes you need someone closer. That's fine, everyone needs to sleep. Here are my esteemed colleagues across plenty of timezones, so you can find one who works with your schedule.
- UTC-86 FDEsAWS Core Services×3AWS DevOps×3Amazon EC2×2
+1
- UTC-75 FDEsAmazon AppStream 2.0×2Amazon EC2×2Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)×2
- UTC-66 FDEsAWS Core Services×2AWS DevOps×2AWS Kubernetes×2
+1
- UTC-525 FDEsAWS Core Services×6AWS DevOps×6AWS Security and Identity×6
+20
- UTC10 FDEsAWS Core Services×4AWS Networking×4AWS Security and Identity×2
+5
- UTC+121 FDEsAWS Kubernetes×3AWS Security and Identity×3BigQuery×3
+16
- UTC+213 FDEsAWS Core Services×4AWS Databases×4AWS Networking×4
+8
- UTC+82 FDEsAmazon Aurora×1Amazon Bedrock×1Amazon RDS×1
- UTC+92 FDEsAWS Core Services×2AWS DevOps×1AWS Networking×1
- UTC+102 FDEsAWS Kubernetes×1AWS Serverless×1Google Cloud DevOps×1
- UTC+114 FDEsAWS Core Services×2AWS Databases×2AWS AI/ML×1
We do awesome work!
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Updated Aug 23, 2026, 6:00 PM
What customers are saying
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Matt was extremely quick to triage and get a ticket opened with Google.
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Yuval was knowledgeable and helpful. Clear, direct, concise communication (much better than GCP's own support). Appreciate the fast replies. Really appreciate that Doit has experts available.
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Very helpful guidance which helped me resolve the issue.
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Joseph did a great job assessing our needs on this questions. He also looked at our system and then validated that our RDS instance in this case had plenty of head room so that we go ahead and increase the max connections. Which was just what we needed.
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I was happy with the support. Quick responses and actual verification of the issues that I reported.
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I'm very happy of the support. Really quick responses, relevant infromation,supportive.
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appriciate the prompt support given by the team and followup on the matter by owning it.
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The support was excellent, and Dustin's follow-ups were fantastic. Glad we identified the problem. Thanks!
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Brian has continued to be a great help to us
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Very detailed answer and to the point.
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Quick initial reply from the support with on call engineer, and detailled follow up. Thanks
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The technical support was good but I could have done without the sales pitch. GCP needs to provide better feedback than just saying it's unavailable. I've never had that happen w/ AWS.
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I use homebrew for work and personal purposes
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Had a very good discussion regarding possible cost optimizations that we can make
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Paul, his team and AWS worked quite in cohesion with us to get this in a form factor which helped us evaluate much deeper and ensure our checks are done well in order for the account migration to be completed successfully without any major business impacts.
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Google is just way too slow. In opinion it shouldn't take weeks for them to identify that the root case is a simple quota indexing bump.
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pointed out the configuration issue clearly
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The DoiT specialist was very kind, knowledgeable, and provided detailed responses both during our call and in the follow-up written communication.
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