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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional with 15+ years building and securing production cloud platforms, including 10 years at Amazon. I help healthcare, fintech and SaaS teams run infrastructure that passes security audits and stay online even through major disasters. Teams bring me in when the stakes are high whether it's a HIPAA workload that needs locked down secrets and identity, an AWS bill growing faster than the traffic, a CI/CD pipeline that breaks or can’t deploy, or a platform that needs to scale with legacy systems. Recent Projects - AWS architecture: multi account setup, IAM and identity federation, networking, cost optimization - Infrastructure as code and CI/CD: Terraform, AWS CDK, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, GitHub Actions and GitHub Enterprise - Security and compliance: HIPAA controls, secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault), workload identity, audit ready logging - Data pipeline reliability: Python ETL and ELT, warehouse ingestion, monitoring and alerting so failures surface before customers notice Track record - 10 years at Amazon as Senior and Lead SDE: checkout and fulfillment systems (Fabric, SpeedShip) and CI/CD automation handling millions in transaction volume - Payments infrastructure for Capital One, SunTrust and Fiserv: ACH, wire and book transfers on NACHA compliant systems with dual approval access controls - Healthcare: value based care platform work at Philips Wellcentive and current HIPAA EHR cloud security engagements - Legacy modernizations into AWS holding 99.99% uptime through 5x traffic surges - 100% Job Success, Top Rated Plus How I work 1. Review: I assess your current setup, goals, and scope. 2. Plan: you get top priorities with scope, risks and design laid out. 3. Build: once you sign off I'll implement and deliver. 4. Launch: I stay with your team through go live and production. 5. Next Launch: If you like my work we start the next project and do it again 🚀 If you need an expert who can come in, understand your architecture quickly and get things done, message me about what you're facing and I'll tell you how I'd approach it to get you where you need to be. Trusted by teams at Amazon, Capital One and Fiserv to keep critical systems secure and running. Keywords: AWS: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Fargate, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, CloudFront, ALB, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions, Organizations, Control Tower, IAM Identity Center Infrastructure as code and CI/CD: Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, GitHub Actions, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD Observability and SRE: Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, X-Ray, APM, SLOs, alerting, incident response, runbooks Security and compliance: HIPAA, SOC 2, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Workload Identity, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF, least privilege, audit logging Data and payments: Python, Node.js, TypeScript, ETL, ELT, PostgreSQL, Stripe, ACH, wire, NACHA Clouds: AWS, GCP, Azure