Experience

Lead Cloud Architect — Stratus Consultancy

2021 – Present · Own cloud strategy for 20+ clients. 60-workload bank migration with zero downtime; average 34% spend reduction in year one.

Senior DevOps Engineer — Platform Team Lead

2016 – 2021 · Ran EKS fleets at 40M requests/day. Introduced GitOps; deploys from weekly to on-demand.

Systems Administrator — Data Center Ops

2013 – 2016 · Bare-metal estates, then full automation of provisioning and patching.

Education

AWS Training & Certification

2015 – 2017 · Solutions Architect Professional, Security Specialty.

B.S. Computer Science — Texas State University

2009 – 2013 · Distributed systems and networks.

Core Skills

• Terraform — modules, remote state, policy-as-code (92%)
• AWS — landing zones, EKS, serverless (90%)
• CI/CD — GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitOps (88%)
• Kubernetes — EKS/AKS production fleets (85%)
• Azure — hybrid identity, VNets, DevOps (80%)
• Python — automation and operators (78%)

Selected Outcomes

• Nimbus Bank: 60 workloads, zero downtime
• ShopFlow: weekly to on-demand deploys
• EduLaunch: hosting spend cut 50% in one quarter
• 330+ cloud projects delivered since 2013

Certifications

• AWS Solutions Architect — Professional
• AWS Security — Specialty
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)