Platform Security • Cloud Architecture • DevSecOps • SRE

Aneudy V. Rodriguez

Cloud Solutions Architect and Platform Security Engineer delivering secure, observable, and automated platforms for DoD/DoW, federal, and enterprise environments. Specialized in DoD/DoW IL5/IL6, Zero Trust architecture, and Continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO) programs. Active Secret clearance.

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Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI

cATO

Continuous Authorization

Secret

Active Clearance

DoD/DoW

IL5 / IL6 Authorized

About

Security, Reliability & Velocity - Together

I design and deliver secure, observable, and automated multi-cloud platforms for federal, defense, healthcare, entertainment, and enterprise environments. From DoD/DoW IL5/IL6 regulated cloud platforms to global enterprise observability programs, I build systems where security, reliability, and automation are platform primitives - not afterthoughts.

As founder of GateScale, I build secure cloud platforms, data protection capabilities, and compliance automation for regulated environments. My work spans federal, defense, healthcare, entertainment, and enterprise programs, including engagements with SAIC, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Disney, Sabre, and PwC. I bring deep expertise in continuous authorization, Zero Trust, platform security, governed AI/MLOps, and delivery automation - always aligned to the mission at hand.

  • High-impact platform architecture aligned with NIST, FedRAMP, and DISA STIG expectations
  • Continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO) telemetry and ConMon programs
  • Enterprise observability, telemetry strategy, and reliability engineering
  • Governed AI/MLOps workflows with traceability, review gates, and model lifecycle controls
  • Infrastructure automation, policy-as-code, and secure delivery guardrails
  • Graduate Coursework, Cybersecurity & Privacy (University of Central Florida) • Graduate Certificate AI/ML (UCF)

Experience

Professional History

A career across regulated federal, defense, healthcare, entertainment, and global enterprise environments - always at the intersection of platform engineering and security.

Founder & Senior Consultant / Platform Security Engineer

GateScale

Jun 2026 – Present
  • Lead secure cloud, platform security, DevSecOps, and compliance automation initiatives for regulated defense and enterprise environments, designing resilient multi-cloud patterns aligned with Zero Trust, operational continuity, auditability, and multi-environment governance (IL5/IL6).
  • Design shared observability, resilience, backup, security-alerting, and cost-governance capabilities that improve operational visibility, platform consistency, and audit readiness across distributed environments.
  • Lead development of compliance and evidence-automation capabilities supporting authorization readiness, Continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO), continuous monitoring, and traceability aligned with NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 and CMMC 2.0 Level 2.
  • Architect policy-as-code and software supply-chain security controls aligned with NIST SP 800-218 and regulated software-delivery requirements.
  • Develop secure internal developer platform capabilities for governed infrastructure delivery, cloud portability, workload identity, access governance, credential protection, and auditable operations.

Senior Cloud Engineer

General Dynamics (Consultant)

Dec 2025 – May 2026
  • Architected secure observability capabilities across regulated Kubernetes environments in AWS GovCloud supporting defense workloads, applying NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, FedRAMP High, and DISA STIG-aligned controls to strengthen RMF evidence collection, authorization support, and remediation planning.
  • Architected and administered secure infrastructure across NIPRNet (IL5) and SIPRNet (IL6) environments, supporting both Controlled Unclassified Information and Secret classified workloads under DoD Cloud Computing SRG requirements.
  • Reduced public internet exposure by standardizing approved hardened image and package sources, and advanced Zero Trust least-privilege practices by removing static cloud credentials from platform workflows.
  • Authored modular Terraform for secure storage, internal networking, workload access, and controlled ingress, enabling consistent multi-cluster provisioning while keeping regulated workloads private and auditable.
  • Delivered a secure observability stack producing continuous, audit-ready evidence for authorization cycles, and supported federated identity and CAC/PIV smart-card access for regulated platform operations.

Senior Platform Engineer

Disney Cruise Line (Contract)

Feb – Oct 2025
  • Designed and drove adoption of a unified Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Mimir, and Loki stack, establishing distributed tracing and correlated log aggregation that reduced mean time to resolution for critical API and booking traffic by 40%.
  • Built Kubernetes, HTTP error, ingress, application-log, and resource-consumption dashboards with actionable alerting for critical shipboard and shoreside services, correlating metrics, logs, and traces across application and infrastructure layers.
  • Led on-call rotations and incident command across Rancher Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure environments, developing standardized runbooks from root-cause analyses and establishing a blameless postmortem process with tracked corrective actions.
  • Defined multi-cloud delivery standards using Azure DevOps pipelines targeting AKS and AWS with Azure Container Registry as the shared image authority, reducing environment drift and deployment cycle time by 50%.
  • Designed self-healing policies and dynamic scaling automation, and established chaos engineering and disaster-recovery drills to identify failure modes before they reached guests.

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Lockheed Martin Space (Contract)

Sep 2024 – Feb 2025
  • Owned the automation strategy for Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c deployments across regulated RHEL 8 environments, designing modular Ansible roles for prerequisites, WebLogic domains, installation, and validation that reduced per-server installation time from more than 8 hours to under 2 hours while eliminating configuration drift.
  • Engineered a Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm strategy that improved scalability and platform consistency across a large defense application portfolio, with capacity planning and resource rightsizing for regulated workloads.
  • Implemented Ansible Vault AES-256 encryption, automated Nexus Repository Manager authentication, and SHA-256 checksum validation, removing hardcoded credentials from deployment workflows.
  • Owned the quarterly Oracle Database 19c CPU patch cycle, automating preflight validation, patch staging from a trusted artifact repository, silent OPatch execution, and post-patch functional checks across regulated environments.
  • Expanded GitLab CI/CD adoption with Jinja2-templated response files, replacing manually authored silent-install files with environment-specific templates and enabling unattended deployments.

Principal Cloud Computing Engineer

NASA (via SAIC)

Oct 2021 – Jun 2024
  • Orchestrated 200+ containerized applications with AWS EKS and ECR within AWS Control Tower while maintaining a 99.9% uptime SLA, applying AWS Shield, GuardDuty, KMS, and governance controls to support NIST and FedRAMP alignment.
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by 30% through tagging enforcement, rightsizing policies, and cost-allocation frameworks implemented as reusable platform controls.
  • Architected a production media-processing pipeline with AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Glue, Textract, Transcribe, Lambda, and Terraform, replacing manual document-extraction and transcription workflows while preserving tenant isolation, auditability, and human validation of generated outputs.
  • Designed serverless workflows using Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, EventBridge, and S3 to orchestrate document processing, asynchronous jobs, and service integrations, made repeatable across federal tenant environments with Terraform.
  • Built a production-grade Python internal developer platform that generated schema-validated infrastructure templates and integrated with CI/CD and Terraform Cloud, with governed AWS and Azure account provisioning that cut environment delivery from days to hours across dozens of engineering teams.

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Consultant

Independent Consulting (formerly TZN Solutions) - Select Engagements

2017 – 2021
  • HealthCare AI: Owned HIPAA-aligned multi-cloud infrastructure for a real-time patient-safety and clinical-observation platform spanning edge AI devices, cloud microservices, and clinician-facing applications; integrated edge inference with cloud event processing and supported human-labeled ground-truth comparison for YOLO-format predictions with bounding-box overlap analysis.
  • Dell / Boeing: Migrated Jenkins to CloudBees CI enterprise with high-availability configuration, eliminating a single point of failure affecting 24/7 aerospace manufacturing and reducing deployment errors across multiple pipelines.
  • U.S. Army: Automated the migration and containerization of 23 Node.js microservices from GitHub into Bitbucket and GitLab using Docker and OpenShift, administering the deployment lifecycle with Artifactory and Jenkins.
  • Wencor Aerospace Group: Designed enterprise security, networking, and systems-management solutions using EC2, ECS, IAM, Auto Scaling, RDS, VPC, S3, Lambda, Direct Connect, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch.
  • Intermountain Healthcare: Designed HIPAA-aligned Bamboo CI/CD pipelines with reusable templates and gated promotions for Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, reducing release time from 2 days to 1 day and manual errors by 30% across 15 applications.
  • Walt Disney World Parks: Architected applications with Infrastructure as Code across AWS and Azure, migrating legacy workloads to serverless and container platforms using Lambda, API Gateway, Docker, and EKS while optimizing performance and cost.
  • GuidePoint Security / PwC: Implemented Terraform Enterprise and HashiCorp Sentinel policy-as-code controls with Azure Security Center, Azure Policy, and Key Vault guardrails, reducing configuration drift by 40% and supporting a 95% external audit pass rate.
  • Ernst & Young: Designed CI/CD pipelines for on-premises and Azure environments using TFS, VSTS, and Octopus Deploy, supported by automation scripts and deployment documentation.
  • Hilton Grand Vacations: Increased deployment frequency from biweekly to daily and reduced deployment errors by 25%, migrating TeamCity and Octopus Deploy processes to Azure DevOps and cutting average deployment time from 2 hours to 32 minutes.
  • Jacobs / NASA: Managed releases for two launch-simulation projects, assessing change requests and delivery risks to sustain a 95% on-time success rate while shortening release cycles.

Air Force Modeling & Simulation Software Integrator

U.S. Air Force

May – Oct 2017
  • Modernized the delivery pipeline for the Air Force Modeling and Simulation Training Toolkit by integrating GitLab, Jenkins, Maven, and JFrog Artifactory into a repeatable build and release workflow.
  • Established auditable artifact promotion, version-control discipline, and deployment documentation that replaced ad hoc release practices and improved repeatability for simulation software delivery.

DevOps Build & Release Engineer

NBC Universal - Golf Channel

Jun 2016 – May 2017
  • Designed and automated builds, releases, and environment configurations for .NET, C#, and Java applications on Microsoft Azure using Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, uDeploy, and IBM UrbanCode.
  • Provisioned and migrated web, application, and SQL Server workloads across AWS, Azure, and Rackspace, delivering PaaS and IaaS environments for internal and international media operations.

DevOps Manager

Sabre Corporation

2011 – 2016
  • Promoted three times through release, product, and DevOps leadership roles, leading an Agile-Lean DevOps and SRE transformation across a 100+ person engineering organization with on-call rotations, incident response, blameless postmortems, and hands-on mentoring.
  • Directed migration of 80+ applications from legacy source control and delivery tooling to Microsoft Azure for 25+ airlines, reducing operating costs by 40% while maintaining 99.9% availability, and implemented New Relic and AppDynamics dashboards and alerting that reduced MTTR by 55%.
  • Built Azure DevOps delivery pipelines that reduced build failures by 45% and deployment time by 90%, cut airline implementation time from 3 weeks to 2 hours, and supported 25+ airline cutovers with zero production outages.

Highlights

Key Deliverables

A selection of representative platforms, programs, and outcomes delivered across federal, defense, and enterprise engagements. Work performed at GateScale is described at a capability level; proprietary implementation details are intentionally withheld.

Regulated Observability Enablement

Designed hardened observability capabilities across disconnected regulated environments, aligning telemetry, evidence generation, and continuous monitoring practices with federal authorization expectations.

Regulated Environments Telemetry Strategy Evidence Readiness

Internal Developer Platform

Built a production-grade Python internal developer platform for a multi-tenant government cloud, generating schema-validated infrastructure templates integrated with CI/CD and Terraform Cloud, cutting environment delivery from days to hours.

Python IDP Terraform Cloud Governed Delivery

Enterprise Observability

Delivered a unified Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Mimir, and Loki stack for Disney Cruise Line, cutting mean time to resolution on critical API and booking traffic by 40% and reducing deployment cycle time by 50%.

Observability Multi-Cloud Delivery Reliability

Governed AI Pipeline

Architected a production media-processing pipeline with AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Glue, Textract, and Transcribe that replaced manual document extraction and transcription while preserving tenant isolation, auditability, and human validation.

AI Governance Workflow Automation Operational Controls

Healthcare AI MLOps

Owned HIPAA-aligned multi-cloud infrastructure for a real-time patient-safety platform spanning edge AI devices and cloud microservices, supporting YOLO-format model evaluation with human-labeled ground-truth and bounding-box overlap analysis.

HIPAA-Aligned Edge AI Model Evaluation

Regulated Middleware Automation

Automated Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c deployments across regulated RHEL 8 environments with modular Ansible, reducing per-server installation from 8+ hours to under 2 while removing hardcoded credentials and eliminating configuration drift.

Deployment Automation Secret Handling Artifact Integrity

Skills

Core Competencies

A concise view of the tools and capabilities used to deliver secure, automated, and observable systems at scale across federal and enterprise environments.

Cloud & Kubernetes

AWS GovCloud Azure / GCP / OCI EKS / AKS OpenShift / Rancher Helm / Istio Kubernetes RBAC Container Hardening

DevSecOps & IaC

Terraform / OpenTofu Terragrunt / Terratest Ansible GitHub Actions / GitLab CI Jenkins / Azure DevOps SAST / DAST / SCA Artifact Signing

Observability & SRE

Prometheus / Grafana Loki / Tempo / Mimir OpenTelemetry / eBPF New Relic / AppDynamics SLI/SLO & Error Budgets Incident Command Chaos Engineering

Security & Compliance

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 FedRAMP High DISA STIG CMMC 2.0 NIST SP 800-218 OPA / Sentinel / Vault Zero Trust FIPS 140-3 / PQC ISO 27001 / SOC 2 / HIPAA / PCI DSS

AI/MLOps & Data

SageMaker / Bedrock Glue / Textract / Transcribe Azure AI Foundry / OpenAI MLflow scikit-learn / TensorFlow Model Lifecycle & Drift RAG & LLM Guardrails Computer Vision

Programming & Scripting

Python Bash / PowerShell Go HCL / YAML / Jinja2 Docker CloudFormation / CDK

Credentials

Certifications & Education

Formal credentials backing my security, cloud, and delivery work, anchored by an active Secret clearance.

Certifications & Clearance

  • Active Secret Security Clearance
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate
  • SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM)
  • SAFe Scrum Master / Team Coach
  • IATA Airline Business Foundations

Education

  • Graduate Coursework, Cybersecurity & Privacy, University of Central Florida
  • Graduate Certificate, AI & Machine Learning, University of Central Florida
  • Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

Contact

Let's Build Something Secure

Whether you're working on a regulated compliance program, a cloud platform modernization, or an enterprise observability initiative, I'd like to hear about it. Reach out directly using the channels below.

What I Bring

  1. 1

    Federal & Defense Expertise

    Active Secret clearance, high-impact regulated environments, continuous authorization, NIST RMF, FedRAMP, and DISA STIG.

  2. 2

    Platform Engineering at Scale

    Cloud platforms, delivery automation, observability, and Zero Trust patterns built for reliability and compliance.

  3. 3

    Outcome-Driven Delivery

    I measure success by operational resilience, delivery flow, risk reduction, and audit outcomes.

Direct Contact

Prefer to reach out directly? Use the channels below. I typically respond within one business day.

Email

[email protected]

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/arodriguez-pa