⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Juan Pablo is one of the best freelancers I've ever worked with. I've recruited nearly 80 people on Upwork and, clearly, he's in the top 3 of experts I'd highly recommend." — Sep 2024 🏆 100% Job Success · 🥇 Expert-Vetted · 📈 $900K+ delivered · 20+ years in Cloud & AI I'm the founder of Cloudacio — an AWS Select Partner agency with Top Rated Plus status and 6 consecutive years of 5-star delivery on Upwork. I work directly with CTOs and founders at Series A–C SaaS companies who need cloud expertise without hiring a full in-house platform team. What I help with: 📊 FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization — Pay-as-you-save model. I've helped clients cut AWS spend by up to 73%. You only pay for results. 🛡️ SOC 2 & Cloud Compliance — From gap assessment to audit-ready using compliant-by-design infrastructure blueprints on AWS, GCP, and Azure. 🚀 SaaS Scaling & Well-Architected Reviews — Multi-region architecture, Kubernetes, Terraform IaC, and 24×7 AI-native cloud ops. 🤖 AI & Data Engineering — RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, MLOps on AWS SageMaker, and data platforms using Spark, dbt, and Redshift. How I work: I bring both strategic and hands-on depth — I architect solutions and I know exactly how they're built. When a project needs a team, I bring in Cloudacio. When it needs a trusted advisor, I show up. 📬 Send me a message. I respond within 4 hours during business hours. Skills & Technologies: AWS, Amazon Web Services, GCP, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Microsoft Azure, cloud architect, cloud architecture, cloud consultant, cloud consulting, cloud engineer, cloud engineering, DevOps, DevOps engineer, platform engineer, platform engineering, site reliability engineer, SRE, fractional CTO, CTO as a service, infrastructure architect, solutions architect, AWS architect, cloud migration, cloud migrations, lift and shift, re-platforming, modernization, application modernization, serverless, serverless architecture, Lambda, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Kubernetes, K8s, Docker, containers, containerization, microservices, service mesh, Istio, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, ALB, NLB, load balancing, auto scaling, autoscaling, multi-region, high availability, disaster recovery, fault tolerance, backup, business continuity, Terraform, Terraform modules, Infrastructure as Code, IaC, Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, CI/CD, continuous integration, continuous deployment, continuous delivery, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, FluxCD, GitOps, blue-green deployment, canary deployment, rolling deployment, monitoring, observability, logging, alerting, CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, ELK, OpenTelemetry, APM, cost optimization, cloud cost optimization, FinOps, cloud financial management, cost reduction, AWS cost reduction, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, spot instances, rightsizing, cloud spend, cloud savings, billing analysis, SOC 2, SOC2, compliance, cloud compliance, security, cloud security, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR, FedRAMP, NIST, CIS benchmarks, IAM, identity and access management, zero trust, VPC, networking, cloud networking, VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, Security Hub, encryption, KMS, secrets management, vulnerability management, penetration testing, AI, artificial intelligence, machine learning, ML, MLOps, LLM, large language models, GPT, generative AI, RAG, retrieval augmented generation, AI integration, AI automation, SageMaker, Bedrock, AI infrastructure, data engineering, data pipeline, ETL, ELT, Spark, Apache Spark, dbt, Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, data lake, data warehouse, Glue, Athena, Kinesis, streaming, real-time data, Python, Go, Golang, Node.js, TypeScript, Bash, scripting, automation, cloud automation, infrastructure automation, Linux, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Windows Server, Nginx, Apache, web server, database administration, DBA, performance tuning, scalability, scaling, SaaS, SaaS infrastructure, startup, startups, Series A, Series B, Series C, B2B SaaS, multi-tenant, Well-Architected Review, AWS Well-Architected, cloud assessment, cloud audit, architecture review, technical due diligence, vendor management, cloud strategy, digital transformation, agile, scrum, technical leadership, team augmentation, staff augmentation, managed services, cloud managed services, 24x7 support, on-call, incident response, incident management, runbooks, SLA, uptime, reliability, Helm, Kustomize, Crossplane, Vault, HashiCorp, Consul, Nomad, Packer, Vagrant, cloud native, CNCF, twelve-factor app, API design, REST, GraphQL, event-driven architecture, message queue, SQS, SNS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Celery, cron, scheduling, batch processing, image processing, video processing, CDN, edge computing, CloudFlare, Vercel, Netlify, Amplify, static hosting, WordPress hosting, PHP, Laravel, web development.

Linux server installation and configuration. Virtualization systems: VMware, Proxmox. Cloud providers: AWS, GCloud, DigitalOcean. IaC (Terraform, Pulumi) Web server, web proxy configuration (Apache, Nginx, Traefik, Caddy, HAproxy). Monitoring servers, apps and network devices with Zabbix and Prometheus. Logging with Promtail+Loki, tracing with Tempo Grafana Containers: building and deploying Docker containers and services via docker compose. Container orchestration: Kubernetes. Writing Helm charts. GitOps with ArgoCD. CI/CD: GitlabCI, Jenkins, Ansible. Python and Go scripting

I am a certified AI & DevOps Architect: ⚡ AWS AI Technical Accredidation ⚡ Azure Certified Data Engineer Associate ⚡AWS Accredited Technical Professional ⚡AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate ⚡AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate ⚡Aviatrix Certified Engineer: Multi-Cloud Networking Associate. I have over 10 years of experience in this space and have been providing consultancy to clients belonging to different industries and fields. I have worked in both AWS and Azure- K8s have been my passion for as long as I can remember. As a contractor/ freelancer, I have helped some of the fortune 500 Enterprises migrate to Kubernetes on AWS. I have extensively worked on: ✅ Amazon Web Services including: EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, IAM, RDS, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, Database Migration Service (DMS), Config, Elastic Beanstalk, Kinesis, ALB, Global Accelerator, Systems Manager, Direct Connect, DynamoDB, Cloud formation, Storage Gateway, AWS Glue, Data catalog etc. ✅ Microsoft Azure including Application Gateway, VM, Scale set, Azure SQL, Key vault, ARM, Azure Data factory, Azure DevOps, Synapse etc. ✅ General services including DataOps, Elasticsearch, Thanos, CI/CD, GitOps, Pulumi, Linux (Debian, CentOS),CentOS Kickstart installation, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Cluster administration, GitFlow Workflow, Terraform, Terragrunt, Azure Resource Manager templates, IaC. Why you should choose me? ⭐ Async Communication ⭐ Structured work ⭐ Time efficiency ⭐ Quality over quantity ⭐ Instant consultation

TLDR; I’m familiar with most AWS products and DevOps engineering. I work alone and might be able to assist with issues from workloads running inside AWS. Please read on for more details. ——— I’m Lam, a full-stack AWS Cloud Engineer/Solutions Architect/DevOps with 8 years of experience working with AWS platform. My expertise includes managing, troubleshooting, building, and migrating AWS cloud environments, including EC2 Linux servers, RDS databases, DNS transfer, and hosting. I am also skilled in auditing AWS environments for best practices and the AWS well-architected framework, and have assisted clients in preparing for SOC2, PCI, and HIPAA compliance. I am dedicated to helping clients optimize costs, ensure scalability, improve reliability, increase performance efficiency, enhance security, and achieve operational excellence. * AWS skills: - Onboard new projects onto AWS. - Migrate workloads from other cloud providers or on-premises to AWS. - Setup new AWS accounts and Organizations from scratch. - Design and configure Control Tower/Landing Zone with AWS Organization on enterprise scale. - Organizing AWS multi-account environment using recommended account strategies. - Expertise in designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS. - Ability to choose the best AWS service for specific data, compute, database, or security needs. - Familiarity with AWS best practices in architecture and well-architected framework. - Proficiency in estimating AWS costs and finding ways to control them. * DevOps skills: - Proficiency in automating the build and deployment of applications from Git repositories to AWS using various services such as EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Elastic BeanStalk, S3, and other common services. - Experience in developing automation scripts using Bash, and Python for Linux infrastructure. - Skilled in creating Shell/Chef code to automate server builds, OS patches, and application deployments to various environments. - Ability to design reliable infrastructures for IT products using the infrastructure-as-code concept with CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi, and AWS CDK, whether they are being migrated from on-premises or developed on the AWS platform. - Experience in implementing custom monitoring and integrating monitoring methods into deployment processes to create self-healing solutions on Linux EC2 instances. - Expertise in managing multiple AWS accounts, enforcing network security, managing user/group permissions, optimizing service performance, and controlling costs. * Common jobs that I have done: - Deploy new AWS Organizations with Control Tower / Landing Zone with guardrails. - Organize multiple accounts into Organizational Units per AWS best practices. - Configure SSO authentication for AWS users in multi-account environments using third party Identity Providers. - Deploy security measures and toolings to detect and prevent security issues in AWS (GuardDuty, Config, Detective, Security Hub, etc.) - Introduce startups and individuals to the benefits of AWS. - Resolve compliance issues like SOC2. - Experience in containerizing native applications such as Django, .NetCore, Nodejs, and Java to run on AWS ECS, including one-step builds and deployments using CICD tools like Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy/CodeCommit. - Skilled in troubleshooting VPC/networking issues, including communication between AWS resources such as Lambda and private RDS/ElastiCache/EC2. - Expertise in Cloud security using tools such as IAM, VPC, Security Groups, S3 ACL, WAF, GuardDuty, and CloudTrail. - Experience in setting up serverless stacks using Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, and CloudFront. - Ability to review proposed or existing AWS architecture for factors such as security, cost-optimization, HA, backup, and performance. - Skilled in setting up secure access between on-premises and private subnets in VPC using tools like openVPN and SSH tunnel. - Proficiency in creating CloudFormation templates for quick replication of AWS stacks, including for disaster recovery and deployment to multiple regions, as well as for easily creating and removing resources. I'm also holding all associate and professional AWS certifications: - AWS Solutions Architect - Professional - AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional - AWS Security Specialty - AWS SysOps Administrator - AWS Developer Please also take a look at my past projects and customer reviews for extra details. --- If you need assistance with quick fixes, have any questions about your AWS environment, or have an interesting project you'd like to discuss, please don't hesitate to reach out to me.

A Cloud Reliability, DevOps & SRE Platform Expert with 20+ years building secure, scalable, high-availability platforms for enterprise and high-growth startups. I specialize in Kubernetes, GitOps, cloud networking, observability, automation, and security engineering across AWS, GCP, Azure, and hybrid datacenters. I design, build, and fix complex infrastructure fast including Linux K8s N8N clusters, CI/CD pipelines, multi-cloud networking, service meshes, monitoring, and zero-drift GitOps. My background spans fintech, SaaS, adtech, and large-scale data systems (Cisco, Emodo, Altruist, GreenDot). 🔧 Deep AI, ML Expertise & Tech Stacks ✅ EKS, AKS, GKE, RKE2, K3s, OpenShift ✅ vCluster, Loft, multi-tenant clusters, test environments ✅ Cluster API (CAPI), kubeadm, automated cluster lifecycle ✅ Cilium, Calico, CNI tuning, network policies, eBPF ✅ Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, Ingress controllers, L7 routing ✅ Helm, Kustomize, Jsonnet, chart optimization ✅ Argo CD, FluxCD, GitOps pipelines + multi-cluster sync ✅ Horizontal/Vertical autoscaling, Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler ✅ GPU clusters, A100/MI300 scheduling, multi-GPU workloads ✅ StatefulSets, Operators, CRDs, advanced workloads ✅ Kubernetes security hardening, Pod Security Standards, OPA/Gatekeeper 💻 Backend Engineering & APIs ✅ Go, Python, Node.js, Java, Rust, C/C++ ✅ RESTful APIs, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets ✅ Microservices architecture, domain-driven design ✅ Event-driven systems, CQRS, saga patterns ✅ FastAPI, Flask, Django, Express, Wordpress, Echo ✅ Message queues: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS ✅ ORM/query builders: SQLAlchemy, Prisma, GORM, TypeORM ✅ Authentication: OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, SAML, mTLS ✅ API gateways, rate limiting, circuit breakers 🎨 Frontend Development ✅ React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Solid ✅ TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3 ✅ Next.js, Nuxt, Remix, Astro, Vite ✅ State management: Redux, Zustand, Pinia, MobX ✅ Tailwind CSS, Styled Components, SCSS, CSS Modules ✅ Component libraries, design systems, Storybook ✅ Responsive design, accessibility (WCAG), i18n ✅ Testing: Jest, Vitest, Playwright, Cypress 🔗 Full-Stack & Application Architecture ⚙️ Monorepos: Nx, Turborepo, Lerna ⚙️ API design, OpenAPI/Swagger, versioning strategies ⚙️ Database design, migrations, schema management ⚙️ Caching strategies: Redis, Memcached, CDN edge caching ⚙️ Real-time systems: WebSockets, SSE, Socket io ⚙️ Background jobs, task queues, scheduled workers 🛠️ Developer Tooling & CLIs ⚙️ CLI development in Go, Python, Rust, Node.js ⚙️ SDK design, client libraries, developer experience ⚙️ Linting, formatting, pre-commit hooks, code quality CI/CD, Automation & Internal Developer Platforms ⚙️ GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo Workflows ⚙️ Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Packer ⚙️ API automation, Python, Go, Bash, NodeJS tooling ⚙️ Golden AMIs, image pipelines, artifact promotion ⚙️ Release automation, blue/green, canary, progressive delivery ⚙️ Self-service developer platforms, environment provisioning Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) ☁️ AWS: VPC, TGW, BGP, ALB/NLB, PrivateLink, WAF, Shield ☁️ IAM, KMS, Organizations, SCPs, Control Tower ☁️ S3, CloudFront, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB ☁️ Azure networking/IAM/AKS, GCP networking/IAM/GKE ☁️ Hybrid cloud automation, colocation, bare-metal provisioning ☁️ PXE/iPXE netbooting, remote OS deployment ☁️ AMD GPU datacenter clusters (MI210, MI250, MI300) Security, DevSecOps & Compliance 🛡️ PCI-DSS, SOC2, CIS benchmarks, NIST 🛡️ Vault, SOPS, KMS, Secrets automation 🛡️ CrowdStrike, Trend Micro, Tenable, Aqua, Falco 🛡️ Zero Trust, identity boundaries, workload isolation 🛡️ Supply chain security (cosign, SBOMs, image signing) Observability & SRE Tooling 📈 Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo 📈 OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, distributed tracing 📈 Kubernetes event pipelines, logging, metrics, alerting 📈 SLO/SLI frameworks, error budgets, resiliency testing Networking & Performance 🌐 Dell / Arista / Cisco switching 🌐 40–400GbE fabrics, LACP, MLAG, EVPN 🌐 BGP, OSPF, IPv6, VRF segmentation 🌐 NGINX, HAProxy, Envoy, Traefik 🌐 WireGuard, IPSec, Zero Trust tunnels 🌐 CDN optimization, global routing, edge acceleration Databases, Storage & Caching 💾 RDS, Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticache 💾 Ceph, Longhorn, EBS/EFS/FSx 💾 Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis Streams 💾 Backup automation, PITR, disaster recovery design ✔️ What I Deliver ✓ Production-grade Kubernetes clusters engineered for scale ✓ Zero-drift GitOps environments with full automation ✓ Enterprise-level observability & SLOs ✓ Security-by-default infra with compliance alignment ✓ High-availability & cost-efficient cloud architectures ✓ CI/CD pipelines and full developer platform tooling ✓ Fast communication, clear documentation & reliable delivery ⭐ My Satisfaction Guarantee If you’re not completely satisfied with my work, you don’t pay no questions asked. Zero risk. 100% quality guarantee. Your success or your money back.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 100% Job Success | Top Rated | 3700+ hours | 5-star Reviews Are you searching for a DevOps expert and full-stack developer with over a decade of experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, and application development? With 10+ years of expertise, I offer both DevOps and development solutions that optimize processes, cut costs, and speed up product releases. 🔹 DevOps & Cloud Specialties: Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines IaC: Terraform, Pulumi, Atlantis Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD Monitoring & Logging: ELK, Prometheus/Grafana, Loki, Thanos, New Relic, DataDog Automation: Ansible, Puppet, Rundeck, Octopus Deploy 🔹 Development Expertise: Languages: Golang, Python, Java Spring Boot, Bash, NodeJS Frameworks & Tools: FastAPI (Python), Gorilla Mux (Golang), Flask (Python), Gin (Golang) Cloud-Native Development: Building microservices, APIs, and serverless applications on AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, and Kubernetes Scripting: Expert in automation using Bash and Python for DevOps processes and infrastructure tasks. I specialize in building highly scalable backends with Golang and Python, integrating them into robust DevOps pipelines for seamless deployment and management. With me, you'll gain a partner who is dedicated to your project’s success. I offer 24/7 support to ensure smooth deployments, optimal cloud performance, and high-quality software development. Let’s work together to automate, develop, and deploy your projects with the best industry practices. Why Choose Me? 🏆 Top Rated DevOps Professional & Developer on Upwork 🏆 400+ hours worked with 100% Job Success 🏆 Expertise in both cloud platforms and backend development 🏆 Flexible pricing starting at $30/hour for top-tier DevOps and development work 🏆 First Project Special: I prioritize long-term relationships and offer flexibility for the first project’s fee Let's Connect: Whether you’re looking to build a scalable backend system, automate infrastructure, or optimize cloud operations, I can help. Send me a message, and I’d be happy to discuss how we can collaborate.

🟢Mostly Available on Upwork 🏆4+ years of experience ✔️Experience with over 40+ projects ✔️100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! ✔️Excellence in Delivering High-Scale Projects Are you looking for a top-tier 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 with proven expertise in managing complex systems and driving cloud-based solutions? With extensive experience in building and optimizing scalable infrastructures, I bring you a deep knowledge of the 𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐀𝐖𝐒, 𝐆𝐂𝐏, 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫, and 𝐂𝐈/𝐂𝐃 pipelines. 🌟 Top 5% Freelancer | 💯 100% Job Success | 👨‍💻 Over 5 Years of Professional Experience 🔧 My Expertise Includes: 🚀 Cloud Architecture & Operations: AWS: EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, EKS, CodeDeploy, VPC, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Route 53, and more. GCP: GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, VPC Peering, Stackdriver, Cloud DNS, and more. 🛠️ Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Pulumi, Kubernetes, Helm, and CloudFormation to automate and scale infrastructure effortlessly. 🐳 Containerization & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Helm, Docker Compose, and other tools to ensure efficient deployment and scaling. 🔄 CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps for streamlined, automated delivery pipelines that boost productivity. 📊 Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, and Jaeger to monitor, log, and optimize systems, ensuring high availability and performance. 🐧 Linux System Administration: Proficient in managing and securing Linux systems (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian). 🗃️ Database Management: Expertise in managing relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis). 💡 Web Services & Caching: Nginx, Apache, Varnish for high-performance service delivery. 🔐 Security & Networking: SSL configurations, DDoS mitigation (Cloudflare, Let’s Encrypt), secure and efficient cloud networking. I am committed to helping you achieve your project goals with cutting-edge technologies and industry best practices. Let’s collaborate to create robust, efficient, and scalable solutions for your business. Looking forward to chat you over Zoom further.

Self-taught software engineer and lawyer with 3+ Years of Expertise in problem solving, mainly in the areas of Web Scraping, Data Extraction, Data Mining and Browser Automation. I’ve completed 100% of the projects I’ve taken charge of (including non-Upwork jobs) for various startups and companies. I will never agree to work on your project unless I confirm that your goal is achievable. For this reason, I need to review your project free of charge before officially starting the contract. Services Available: -- Data extraction from almost any website -- Web scraping of Product Listings from any E-Commerce website -- Data collection from Business Directories -- Web mining from Login or Captcha protected sites -- API solutions for allowing you real time access to the up to date data you need -- Micro front-end UI solution for consuming scraping and automation services through the web -- Social Media Websites -- Real Estate Platforms -- Download, and manipulate all kind of files: images, documents and PDFs -- Automating Repetitive Routine Stuff -- Scripts and utilities to automate data manipulation on your end -- MORE, just send me a message and we can talk! Tech Stack: -- Python -- Playwright -- Scrapy -- Crawlee -- BeautifulSoup -- Apify -- AWS (Lambda, APIGateway, S3, others) -- Docker -- Pulumi -- Go Output Formats: -- JSON/JSONL -- CSV -- Excel -- Google Sheets -- SQL Database -- HTML/XML -- TXT -- API Customer satisfaction is my top priority, this means a full refund if I can't reach your goals and requirements. Hope you reach out and thanks for reading!

Software Engineer with +7 years of professional experience. Currently focusing on C#, Go, and JavaScript/TypeScript. Practical Hands-on AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes. Familiar with Python, Node.js, Java, PHP, C++, SQL, Ruby, Elixir, Rust, HTML, and CSS. Experienced with ASP.NET Core/MVC, EntityFramework, Dapper, LINQ, Angular, Vue.js, gRPC, GraphQL, WebRTC, and WebSockets. My objective is to design and implement simple, fast, secure, and reliable solutions that scale efficiently when needed.

Kubernetes Orchestration Expert with extensive experience architecting and managing production-grade clusters across AWS EKS and self-hosted environments. Skilled in implementing advanced networking configurations, resource optimization, and designing CI/CD-friendly deployment patterns that maximize reliability and minimize downtime. LLM Infrastructure Engineer specializing in production deployment of AI systems. Expert in vector database implementation (Pinecone, QDrant), prompt engineering, and building cost-efficient inference pipelines at scale. Experienced with OpenAI API integration and custom model deployment. AWS Infrastructure Architect with 5+ years of experience designing and implementing resilient, secure, and cost-optimized cloud environments. Deep knowledge of AWS services including EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, ALB, Security Hub, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, IAM, Control Tower, Organizations, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager, and WAF. Security Engineering Specialist focused on implementing defense-in-depth strategies across cloud environments. Experienced in conducting security audits, implementing least-privilege access controls, and designing systems that maintain compliance while enabling developer productivity. Certifications AWS Solutions Architect Professional AWS Security Specialty AWS Solutions Architect Associate HashiCorp Terraform Associate Client Success Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Amazing work! Alex is knowledgeable, responsive, and extremely diligent. Working with someone with expert knowledge of both DevOps and security has helped us immensely in passing our Amazon SP-API security audit, which involved migrating all of our infrastructure to AWS on very short notice and adding numerous layers of security. I HIGHLY recommend Alex to anybody looking for a DevOps or security expert (especially if you need both!)" - CEO of CCEN Industry Experience FinTech & Trading: Designed low-latency infrastructure for mission-critical financial services AI-First Startups: Implemented scalable infrastructure for AI/ML workloads SaaS Applications: Created multi-tenant architectures optimized for security and performance Technical Proficiencies Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi CI/CD Automation: GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI/CD Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS), ECS (Fargate, EC2) GitOps: ArgoCD Monitoring & Observability: CloudWatch, New Relic, Datadog, FluentBit Identity Management: IAM, Okta Cloud Security: Siems, Security Hub, Audits, Compliance Programming: Python, Go, Typescript Availability M-F 5pm-11pm EST, Weekends 6am-10pm EST