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Jason W.
About
Principal Cloud & Infrastructure Architect with decades of hands-on engineering experience and 10+ years designing, modernizing, securing, and operating production AWS environments.
I specialize in complex environments where architecture, reliability, security, and hands-on troubleshooting intersect. My work has included transforming single-server applications into highly available cloud platforms, designing Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD systems, leading zero-downtime migrations, operating mission-critical SaaS infrastructure, and supporting organizations through significant growth and ownership transitions.
Many times I have served as a medium or long term technical consultant and infrastructure owner, working directly with executives, Product, Engineering, QA/Support, and business stakeholders while remaining hands-on with AWS, Linux, automation, security, and production incidents.
More recently, I have applied the same production-first approach to AI infrastructure and agentic systems, building secure cloud environments and AI-enabled operational workflows rather than isolated prototypes.
Work Experience
Provided real-time engineering, infrastructure, and production support across hundreds of sessions involving diverse codebases, cloud environments, and technical incidents.
- Completed 250+ live technical sessions across software development, AWS, infrastructure, databases, DevOps, and production troubleshooting.
- Maintained a 5-star mentor rating for 10+ years, earning 150+ five-star reviews.
- Frequently worked in unfamiliar codebases and production environments, rapidly diagnosing issues and helping developers identify practical solutions.
- Supported both individual developers and businesses with debugging, architecture, cloud infrastructure, automation, and emergency technical problems.
- Worked across a broad technology landscape including AWS, Linux, Node.js, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, Terraform, and Infrastructure as Code.
Technologies: AWS, Linux, Terraform, Python, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps
Principal Infrastructure Architect delivering a production-grade AWS platform and migration architecture for an enterprise SaaS environment.
- Designed and implemented a complete multi-environment AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including 32 reusable modules, protected state management, and automated drift detection.
- Built multi-AZ networking, ECS Fargate auto-scaling, Lambda/API Gateway services, RDS PostgreSQL, Redis, CloudFront, WAF, and enterprise security controls.
- Delivered the infrastructure in 39 days and executed a zero-downtime migration.
- Built comprehensive observability with 121 CloudWatch alarms across 12 AWS services, EventBridge automation, log metrics, and Slack-based operational alerts.
- Developed 76 standardized operational scripts for deployment, security auditing, backups, and drift detection, supporting extensive infrastructure automation.
- Implemented encryption, least-privilege IAM, GuardDuty, Config, Security Hub, CloudTrail, and OWASP-oriented WAF controls.
- Completed a complex cross-account Cognito migration without downtime.
- Produced 40+ architecture documents, runbooks, and deployment procedures to support ongoing operations.
Technologies: AWS, Terraform, ECS Fargate, Lambda, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache, CloudFront, WAF, Cognito, CloudWatch, EventBridge, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CI/CD
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