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Cloud Engineer & Infrastructure Architect

Infrastructure as code.
Shipped with AI.

Terraform-driven cloud infrastructure and CI/CD delivery for enterprise teams, sped up with AI, plus client web apps I love building.

system-status live
avg uptime, last 12 months: 99.982%

9

years in infrastructure

40+

systems migrated

12

sites networked

3

industries served

Hard skills

What I actually work with, day to day.

Cloud & Infrastructure as Code

  • AWS, Azure & GCP
  • Terraform & Pulumi
  • Ansible

AI-Augmented Engineering

  • AI-assisted IaC review
  • LLM-driven runbooks
  • Automated remediation

CI/CD & Delivery

  • GitHub Actions & GitLab CI
  • Blue-green & canary deploys
  • Release automation

Containers

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Service mesh basics

Web Application Development

  • Vue 3 & React
  • Node.js APIs
  • Client project delivery

Security & Observability

  • Hardening & IAM
  • Prometheus, Grafana & ELK
  • SOC 2 readiness
deploy.log passed
  • $ terraform apply -auto-approve
  • $ npm run build
  • $ gh workflow run deploy.yml
  • ✓ client-app deployed in 3m 12s

Web applications are the part I'd do for free.

Enterprise infrastructure is the day job. Building web applications for clients, start to finish, is the part I chase on purpose. Same CI/CD discipline as the infrastructure work, just a different kind of ship day.

Where I've worked.

2022 – Present

Independent Cloud & Infrastructure Consultant

Terraform-managed cloud infrastructure and CI/CD delivery for healthcare, logistics, and SaaS clients, increasingly paired with AI-assisted automation and the occasional client web app.

2019 – 2022

Senior Cloud Engineer, Meridian Health Systems

Rebuilt the on-prem patient records platform as Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure, then automated most of the change review. Cut unplanned downtime by 40 percent.

2016 – 2019

Infrastructure Engineer, Cascade Logistics

Replaced manual network changes with version-controlled configuration across 12 warehouse sites, and shipped the company's first CI/CD pipeline.

2014 – 2016

IT Support Specialist, Brightline Capital

Started here. Learned the hard way that most outages are caused by the change nobody documented.

Selected work

A few problems worth talking about.

Meridian Health Systems

Cloud migration, rebuilt as Terraform

Moved a decade of on-prem patient infrastructure to AWS in six months, entirely as version-controlled Terraform, ahead of a HIPAA audit and with zero data loss.

40% less downtime

Enterprise client, financial services

AI-assisted incident response

Paired existing runbooks with an AI-assisted triage layer, cutting time-to-remediation on routine incidents.

Independent client, e-commerce

Client web app, built and shipped

Designed, built, and deployed a Vue storefront through a CI/CD pipeline that now ships updates same-day.

"Craig found single points of failure our own team had missed for years. The migration finished early and nothing broke."

Elena Marsh, VP of Operations, Meridian Health Systems

Have a system that needs to stay up?

Tell me what you're running and where it's breaking. I usually reply within a day.

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