Cloud architecture
Multi-cloud design on AWS, Azure, and GCP — VPCs, private networking, hub-spoke topologies, and cost-aware landing zones.
MaxDCloudOps · South Carolina · Est. 2024
Independent DevSecOps consultant — twenty years from aviation ATM systems and Cisco networks to AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes at scale. Co-founder of SQOR.ai. I also mentor engineers stepping into cloud and platform roles.
No slide decks for their own sake. I join where you are — legacy data center, first Kubernetes cluster, or a platform that grew faster than its runbooks.
Consulting engagements typically span architecture, implementation, and operational handoff.
Multi-cloud design on AWS, Azure, and GCP — VPCs, private networking, hub-spoke topologies, and cost-aware landing zones.
EKS, AKS, and GKE — cluster lifecycle, GitOps with ArgoCD, ingress, autoscaling, and production hardening.
Terraform and Terragrunt modules, environment promotion, drift control, and repeatable multi-account patterns.
GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps — secure pipelines, OIDC to cloud, and deployment gates for regulated workloads.
Network segmentation, secrets management, patch automation, WAF, and architectures aligned with HIPAA and PCI-DSS.
Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Datadog — monitoring, alerting, and SRE practices for mission-critical systems.
One-on-one IT mentorship, career coaching, and motivation for engineers moving into DevOps, cloud architecture, and Kubernetes platform roles.
Patterns I use in the field — anonymized, with real delivery constraints in mind.
Depth across cloud, platform engineering, and regulated environments.
Also: Red Hat, Cisco, aviation ATM / mission-critical ops.
Sector-focused outcomes — client names withheld unless noted (SQOR.ai, Calendmax).
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.
Visionary and product inspirer for Calendmax — a scheduling platform focused on helping people and teams organize time more effectively. Tagline: Schedule Smarter, Live Better.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Built Terraform + Lambda + SSM solution for automated security patching across an AWS Organization — 1,000+ EC2 instances, rollback via snapshots, GitLab OIDC deployment.
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.
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).
— MaxDCloudOps · DevSecOps consulting & mentoringI build platforms where a Friday prod deploy is just another release — not a reason to cancel dinner.
Cloud consulting, architecture reviews, platform builds, mentoring — for teams and individual engineers.
MaxDCloudOps Corp · South Carolina S-Corporation · DevSecOps & CloudOps for U.S. and international teams.
Cloud architecture, Kubernetes platforms, IaC, CI/CD, security hardening, and production operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
IT mentor and career coach for engineers growing into DevOps, cloud, and platform engineering roles.