Miki G.

I build secure cloud infrastructure fast — and I use AI to do it faster than anyone on this platform without cutting corners on security. Twenty years in high-stakes enterprise environments: SOC operations managing millions in risk at QMasters, 10x pipeline velocity improvement at Imperva on a $1M hardware investment, API security deployments at Akamai/Noname across Fortune 500 AWS and Azure estates, and most recently serving as Principal Security Advisor to Fortune 500 leadership on the secure adoption of Microsoft Copilot and enterprise LLMs. I know what breaks in production. I know how to fix it before it does. What I actually do: I deploy and harden production-grade infrastructure using AI-augmented workflows — using LLMs as force multipliers on Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD automation while my 20 years of operational judgment drives every architectural decision. The result: environments that pass security audits and actually work when the auditor leaves. My stack is deep and current: Cloud: AWS, Azure, multi-cloud, hybrid — VPC/VNET design, IAM least-privilege, KMS, GuardDuty, Defender Kubernetes: K8s, K3s, K0s, EKS, AKS, Helm, ArgoCD, Istio service mesh, signed-image admission IaC & Automation: Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, SaltStack, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins Security Engineering: Wiz CSPM, Suricata IDS/IPS, Yara, CrowdSec, CIS Benchmarks, Zero Trust, OPNsense, VLAN micro-segmentation, YubiKey-gated access Linux: 12+ years enterprise Linux (RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch), custom kernel builds, full-disk encryption, systemd hardening Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger Identity: Authentik, Keycloak, Okta, Entra ID, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML, RBAC/ABAC AI Integration: Prompt engineering for infrastructure automation, LLM-guided IaC generation with human security review, AI-assisted threat modeling Home lab that proves it: 12+ years of enterprise-grade R&D — multi-node Proxmox cluster, production-pattern Kubernetes, TrueNAS/ZFS, full ELK SIEM, OPNsense edge, Authentik SSO — running and maintained continuously. I don't learn on your infrastructure. How I work: Fixed-scope projects: CI/CD pipeline, K8s hardening, IaC buildout — 1 to 4 weeks, clean delivery Fractional engagements: 10-20 hrs/week ongoing security and infrastructure ownership Rapid assessments: cloud security audit, gap analysis, remediation roadmap — 1 week Seattle/Tacoma, US Pacific hours. Remote-first, PNW on-site available. I deliver working infrastructure, full documentation, and a team that knows how everything runs. No black boxes. No dependency on me forever.