Work
I am the founder and president of Renkara Media Group. Renkara created AccelaStudy, an accelerated learning platform with millions of users. AccelaStudy was launched in 2008 and was one of the first 500 apps in Apple's new App Store. It has been in the App Store continually for over 15 years and serves over 30,000 student sessions every month.
I have a consulting practice - Vantalect - through which I provide consulting services to a wide variety of Fortune 1000 clients. I specialize in cloud governance and compliance, cost-effective scalable and resilient cloud architectures, data and machine learning pipelines, and operational automation.
I started Acumen Defensive, an organization focused on cybersecurity and compliance. Acumen Defensive provides comprehensive audits of cloud infrastructure for the purposes of achieving HIPAA, GDPR, GxP, NIST, PCI-DSS, and SOC2 compliance. Acumen Defensive is also partnering to help clients reach compliance readiness for FedRAMP, StateRAMP, HITRUST, and other frameworks.
I am an expert in iOS development and in building scalable and highly-available infrastructure, primarily in the AWS cloud. I am highly proficient in Node.js, Python, Golang, Swift, and C#. I am particularly proud of the multi-master replication engine I designed that powers AccelaStudy and synchronizes data between clients and servers across multiple AWS regions in real-time.
I am an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and an AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional. I also have several specialized certifications including Advanced Networking and Security. I participate in creating new AWS certification exams and am an authorized AWS instructor.
I am a strong proponent of remote work and am the editor of the Remote Technologist publication on Medium. I've exclusively worked from home in a well-furnished office since 2010. When the COVID pandemic happened, it had zero effect on my work.
I maintain GitHub repos for the articles I write and a collection of CloudFormation and Terraform resources for provisioning AWS infrastructure.
My résumé can be found at cloudops.consulting. Copies are available online in PDF format.