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Writing & Talks

Publications

AWS expands program offering low-to-no cost security services for federal political campaigns AWS Public Sector Blog, 2024 — Expanded DDC program with 20+ free cybersecurity services Announcing the Landing Zone Accelerator for Education AWS Public Sector Blog, 2023 — Cloud security framework aligned with NIST, CMMC, and ITAR Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Operational Readiness Review lens AWS Public Sector Blog, 2023 — Open-sourced framework for mission-critical workload readiness McGraw Hill delivers dynamic learning experiences with SHARPEN AWS Public Sector Blog, 2023 — Mobile learning app built on AWS in months AWS Well-Architected ORR Lens Open source on GitHub — Custom Well-Architected lens for operational readiness reviews

Press & Features

Rutgers Alumni are Amazon Leaders Rutgers Foundation, 2026 — Career profile from Rutgers to AWS Ever wondered how the AWS leviathan develops software? The Register, 2022 — Coverage of my re:Invent talk on Amazon's DevOps culture Casting the Vote for the Cloud AWS Public Sector Blog, 2018 — Cloud powering U.S. elections from the Obama campaign through 2018 Election Day: Examples of how the Cloud Scales to Meet Election Demand AWS Public Sector Blog, 2016 — Election infrastructure for campaigns, civic orgs, and state governments

Selected Talks

Creating a Culture of Innovation — Harvard IT Summit 2023 Fireside chat with 1,000+ Harvard IT professionals The Road to the White House with Puppet & AWS — PuppetConf 2013 How the Obama campaign built cloud-native infrastructure CI/CD on AWS: Deploy Everything All the Time — Public Sector Summit 2016 Continuous deployment for mission-critical government and education workloads Orchestrating complex deployments — AWS re:Invent 2020 Advanced deployment orchestration for large-scale applications Security in an Open World — AWS IMAGINE Panel on ransomware response and disaster recovery with a college CISO
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Podcast

Co-producer of the AWS Education Podcast — 26 episodes in 2025 covering DevOps culture, operational excellence, and GenAI in education.