Senior Cloud Security Consultant
Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Seattle, WA
Apr 2024 — Present
Associate Cloud Consultant (2021) → Cloud Consultant (2022) → Senior (2024)
- Lead customer engagements delivering secure cloud architectures and ATO guidance across DoD and government environments
- Direct CI/CD pipeline security for security across enterprise customer engagements, implementing automated vulnerability scanning, container image scanning, and compliance checks within GitLab CI pipelines
- Develop and deploy IaC using AWS CDK and Terraform — reusable security-hardened templates for VPCs, IAM, encryption, and logging
- Conduct threat modeling and secure architecture reviews for cloud-native applications
- Design IAM policies, network segmentation, and encryption aligned with zero-trust principles for multi-account environments
- Implement container security — image scanning, vulnerability remediation, hardened base images, secrets management
- Build automated security tooling in Python for compliance reporting and findings aggregation
- Mentor engineers and customer teams on secure design patterns and DevOps security
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, operations, and compliance teams to embed security into the SDLC
- Open source contributor to AWS Labs amazon-bedrock-agentcore-samples — authored a CDK IaC template for a full-stack AI agent with AgentCore Runtime, RAG, and comprehensive security controls
- Architect and build Partner Hub, a full-stack internal application for managing partner relationships and hiring pipelines — React on ECS Fargate, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito with Amazon Federate SSO, deployed via CDK. Integrated an AI assistant powered by Bedrock AgentCore Runtime with a Strands SDK agent via WebSocket API Gateway for real-time streaming across 9 DynamoDB tool functions