I’m an IT professional with a passion for [automating] the cloud. I love proactively finding solutions to problems and automating my way out of repetitive tasks. I like to stay ahead of things, but you’ll never find me running from a good firefight. My experience ranges from Platform/Automation Engineer to Solutions Architect to IT Manager to Consultant. I’m currently a Principal Security Engineer for Empower Retirement, architecting security solutions and automating them, primarily on the AWS cloud. My automation toolkit includes terraform, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, and python. I currently hold all 5 AWS role-based certs, the AWS Certified Security - Specialty, and CISSP.