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Cloud architecture
Multi-cloud design on AWS, Azure, and GCP — VPCs, private networking, hub-spoke topologies, and cost-aware landing zones.
South Carolina · Est. 2024
Secure cloud infrastructure.
Built to scale.
DevSecOps and CloudOps consulting for organizations on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — with a focus on Kubernetes, automation, and compliance-ready architecture. Also an IT mentor, career development coach, and motivator for engineers growing into cloud and platform roles.
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Years in IT infrastructure
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Major cloud platforms
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Servers automated at scale
What we do
End-to-end cloud operations
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Kubernetes platforms
EKS, AKS, and GKE — cluster lifecycle, GitOps with ArgoCD, ingress, autoscaling, and production hardening.
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Infrastructure as Code
Terraform and Terragrunt modules, environment promotion, drift control, and repeatable multi-account patterns.
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CI/CD & automation
GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps — secure pipelines, OIDC to cloud, and deployment gates for regulated workloads.
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Security & compliance
Network segmentation, secrets management, patch automation, WAF, and architectures aligned with HIPAA and PCI-DSS.
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Observability
Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Datadog — monitoring, alerting, and SRE practices for mission-critical systems.
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Mentoring & coaching
One-on-one IT mentorship, career coaching, and motivation for engineers moving into DevOps, cloud architecture, and Kubernetes platform roles.
Reference architectures
How we implement on AWS, Azure & GCP
Typical patterns — animated data flows, no client-specific details.
Route 53
ACM
API Gateway
Lambda
EKS
AWS Batch
AKS
Gateway API
Key Vault
Azure DevOps
Argo CD
Hub-Spoke
GKE
Gateway API
Secret Manager
Artifact Registry
Argo CD
Workload Identity
Argo CD
Helm
Terraform
GitLab CI
SSM Patch Manager
Maintenance Windows
GKE
GitHub Actions
Argo CD
Artifactory
Secret Manager
BigQuery
Indra ATM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Cisco Networking
Flight Data
Pilot Comms
Mission-Critical Ops
Technology stack
Depth across the modern cloud stack
From greenfield platform builds to modernization of legacy data-center workloads — with security and operability built in from day one.
Selected work
Representative engagements
Sector-focused outcomes — client names withheld for confidentiality.
SQOR.ai — cloud platform
Co-founded and built the cloud platform for SQOR.ai — outcome-driven decision intelligence for operators, funds, and LPs. The product connects existing tools, databases, and warehouses in read-only mode (no migration), delivers 800+ KPIs and 60+ AI agents, and goes live in days or weeks instead of quarters.
- 800+ KPIs across data sources
- 60+ AI agents
- GKE · Argo CD · BigQuery
Calendmax — smarter scheduling
Visionary and product inspirer for Calendmax — a scheduling platform focused on helping people and teams organize time more effectively. Tagline: Schedule Smarter, Live Better.
- Scheduling & calendar SaaS
- Product vision & growth
- calendmax.com
Air Traffic Management (ATM) platform
Built and deployed mission-critical servers for an Indra Air Traffic Management environment — systems carrying flight data and pilot communication workloads. Provisioned Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, integrated the Cisco network layer, and connected the full stack into the Indra ATM platform for reliable, always-on air traffic operations.
- Flight data & pilot comms servers
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Cisco network infrastructure
- Indra ATM system integration
HIPAA-aligned Azure / AKS platform
Designed and built a multi-environment Kubernetes platform for a U.S. healthcare software startup — private endpoints, Key Vault secrets, Gateway API, Azure DevOps CI/CD with production approval gates, and Hub-Spoke network architecture.
- 5+ containerized applications
- Zero public PHI exposure
- 120h phased deployment plan
Payment platform on AWS EKS
Secured and modernized a regulated fund-transfer platform — EKS clusters across Canada and the U.S., 13+ payment batch jobs, API Gateway with WAF, infrastructure review, and disaster-recovery design.
- 6+ EKS clusters
- Multi-region (CA + US)
- Terraform / Terragrunt IaC
GCP / GKE for nationwide platforms
Operate staging and production GKE environments for U.S. education SaaS — Gateway API, cert-manager, external-secrets, Grafana/Loki monitoring, and 30+ public ingress hosts.
- 2 dedicated GCP projects
- K8s 1.34–1.35
- Gateway API migration
Multi-account AWS patch automation
Built Terraform + Lambda + SSM solution for automated security patching across an AWS Organization — 1,000+ EC2 instances, rollback via snapshots, GitLab OIDC deployment.
- 1,000+ EC2 patched
- Linux + Windows
- CISA-aligned baselines
Data center → EKS migration
Led enterprise replatforming of 100+ microservices from on-premise data centers to AWS EKS with ArgoCD GitOps — 22+ application domains, shared Helm library, KEDA scale-to-zero.
- 700+ retail locations
- 25+ container base images
- GitOps at scale
Full GCP platform build
Greenfield GCP infrastructure for a multi-country game studio — GKE Autopilot, Istio, Vault, GitLab CI on Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and real-time analytics pipelines (Spanner → BigQuery).
- 1M+ monthly active users
- 100+ microservices CI/CD
- Zero-downtime migration
Get in touch
Let's build something reliable.
MaxDCloudOps Corp — South Carolina S-Corporation. DevSecOps & CloudOps consulting for U.S. and international teams.
What I do
Cloud architecture, Kubernetes platforms, IaC, CI/CD, security hardening, and production operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Mentoring & coaching
IT mentor, career development coach, and motivator for engineers growing into DevOps, cloud, and platform engineering roles.
Certifications
AWS DevOps Engineer Pro
AWS Solutions Architect Pro
AWS Advanced Networking
CKA