Platform Security • Cloud Architecture • Forward Deployed Engineering • DevSecOps • SRE
Cleared Platform Security Engineer, Cloud Solutions Architect, and Forward Deployed Engineer with 15+ years delivering secure, observable, and automated multi-cloud platforms for DoD/DoW, federal, healthcare, and enterprise environments. Specialized in DoD/DoW IL4/IL5/IL6, Zero Trust architecture, and Continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO) programs. Active Secret clearance.
Multi
Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI
cATO
Continuous Authorization
Secret
Active Clearance
DoD/DoW
IL4 / IL5 / IL6 Authorized
About
With 15+ years of experience, I design and deliver secure, observable, and automated multi-cloud platforms for federal, defense, healthcare, aerospace, entertainment, and global enterprise environments. From DoD/DoW IL4/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. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, I translate customer and mission requirements into implementation-ready architectures, secure platform integration, and measurable operational outcomes. My work spans federal, defense, healthcare, aerospace, 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.
Experience
A career across regulated federal, defense, healthcare, entertainment, and global enterprise environments - always at the intersection of platform engineering and security.
GateScale
General Dynamics (Consultant)
Disney Cruise Line (Contract)
Lockheed Martin Space (Contract)
NASA (via SAIC)
Independent Consulting (formerly TZN Solutions) - Select Engagements
U.S. Air Force
NBC Universal - Golf Channel
Sabre Corporation
Highlights
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.
Designed hardened observability capabilities across disconnected regulated environments, aligning telemetry, evidence generation, and continuous monitoring practices with federal authorization expectations.
Built and deployed GAIA, a production-grade Python internal developer platform for a multi-tenant government cloud, generating schema-validated Terraform stacks integrated with GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud, cutting environment delivery from days to hours.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
Skills
A concise view of the tools and capabilities used to deliver secure, automated, and observable systems at scale across federal and enterprise environments.
Credentials
Formal credentials backing my security, cloud, and delivery work, anchored by an active Secret clearance.
Applied AI/ML: Built reproducible pandas and scikit-learn classification workflows (Random Forest, 95.9% accuracy / 94.6% F1) and trained a TensorFlow/Keras model with reload for repeatable inference.
Contact
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.
Federal & Defense Expertise
Active Secret clearance, high-impact regulated environments, continuous authorization, NIST RMF, FedRAMP, and DISA STIG.
Platform Engineering at Scale
Cloud platforms, delivery automation, observability, and Zero Trust patterns built for reliability and compliance.
Outcome-Driven Delivery
I measure success by operational resilience, delivery flow, risk reduction, and audit outcomes.
Prefer to reach out directly? Use the channels below. I typically respond within one business day.
[email protected]
linkedin.com/in/arodriguez-pa
Phone
+1 (321) 347-0617
Location
Orlando, FL