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.