Brian C.

✅ Certified AWS Solutions Architect Professional (previously 5x AWS certified) ✅ Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) ✅ Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) ✅ 15 years of progressive IT experience ✅ Top Rated Plus | 100% Job Success Score ✅ DevSecOps & Platform Engineering expert ✅ CI/CD Pipelines expert ✅ Infrastructure as Code expert Senior DevSecOps and Platform Engineer with 15 years of progressive IT experience designing secure, scalable AWS and Kubernetes platforms that help organizations ship faster within security guardrails. Founder and Principal Consultant at Chadwick Cloud Services, LLC - currently Top Rated Plus on Upwork with a 100% Job Success Score. I specialize in translating complex security and compliance requirements (NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, GovRAMP) into automated, repeatable engineering patterns. Whether assuming CTO responsibilities for a growing startup, leading FedRAMP/GovRAMP certification efforts, or migrating workloads from ECS to EKS with 95% faster deployment times, I deliver measurable results. Recent highlights include implementing Amazon Bedrock across AWS GovCloud and commercial environments, building event-driven GitLab-to-Jira security automation that reduced merge request review time by 95%, and managing Kubeflow ML platforms on Amazon EKS supporting data science teams. Tech Stack: 🢡 Amazon Web Services (GovCloud + Commercial - broad service coverage) 🢡 Kubernetes (Amazon EKS, Helm, Kustomize, Rancher, Karpenter, Istio) 🢡 Docker & container Security (Trivy, Snyk, AWS Inspector) 🢡 Python & Bash Scripting 🢡 GitLab CI/CD, GitHub & GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, CodePipeline 🢡 Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation) 🢡 GitOps (ArgoCD) 🢡 Configuration Management (Ansible) 🢡 Amazon Bedrock & AI platforms (Kubeflow, AI-Assisted Development) 🢡 Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian) & Window Competencies: ⭐ AWS Cloud architecture & GovCloud ⭐ Cloud Security & Compliance (NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, Continuous Monitoring) ⭐ DevSecOps & Platform Engineering ⭐ Kubernetes & Container Orchestration ⭐ CI/CD Pipeline design & optimization ⭐ Infrastructure as Code & GitOps ⭐ AI/ML Platform Engineering (Amazon Bedrock, Kubeflow) ⭐ Networking & Cyber Security ⭐ High Availability | Disaster Recovery | Contingency Planning ⭐ Architecture & Advanced Troubleshooting ⭐ Automation (reducing toil) ⭐ Configuration Manager ⭐ Agile Methodology & Leadership