ASHTONFOULGER

Driving cloud platform reliability, infrastructure automation, and developer workflows across AWS and distributed service architectures. Focused on infrastructure as code, workflow orchestration, and expanding observability across production workloads.

• ▸Managing and scaling AWS cloud platform infrastructure using Terraform, ECS, and Docker.
• ▸Implementing resilient distributed workflow orchestration with Temporal and modernizing CI/CD via GitHub Actions.
• ▸Strengthening application telemetry, distributed tracing, and proactive alerting with CloudWatch and Sentry.

Own the cloud and platform engineering behind an AI ed-tech product used in classrooms every day. Built on Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, and Go, with a focus on reliability, developer velocity, and cost efficiency. Lead platform initiatives end to end, from developer requirements through production rollout.

• ▸Eliminated platform-wide HTTP 524 timeout errors by migrating from GCP’s classic load balancer to the Gateway load balancer, tuning Prisma connection pooling, and fixing Node.js event-loop delays.
• ▸Built the multi-region GCP infrastructure that launched the product in Canada, provisioning staging and production end-to-end with Terraform: Kubernetes resources, operators, IAM, secrets, and deployment pipelines.
• ▸Drove SOC 2 Type II audit-readiness on the infrastructure side: organization-wide GCP audit logging, access-control reviews, vendor security reviews, coordinating external penetration testing, and facilitating the annual incident-response tabletop exercise for the engineering team.
• ▸Rolled out GitOps across every repository with Argo CD and Argo Rollouts, adding canary rollbacks and self-service debugging so developers can troubleshoot pods and infrastructure without waiting on ops.
• ▸Hardened container security by moving services to distroless and clean base images, driving base-image CVEs from 192 to near zero, with same-day critical CVE patching and daily ZAP scans.
• ▸Cut compute costs with KEDA event-driven autoscaling and modernized the toolchain: Datadog APM across all services, a Turborepo 2.x monorepo migration, faster CI pipelines, and Cloudflare Tunnel replacing IP allowlists.

Led infrastructure automation and DevOps modernization for enterprise identity and access management products.

• ▸Rebuilt the ephemeral environment system on VMware and Rancher with Jenkins runners, automatically deploying disposable environments where developers could test local changes with full end-to-end test compatibility for up to 12 hours.
• ▸Built custom Ansible deployments that automated and scaled internal tooling and systems infrastructure on VMware: VM creation and updates, plus Kubernetes provisioning with k3s, MetalLB, Traefik, Let's Encrypt, and internal DNS.
• ▸Pioneered the migration from Jenkins to GitLab CI, modernizing build pipelines and orchestrating Kubernetes-native workloads.
• ▸Re-architected the Advanced Authentication infrastructure with Terragrunt for modular, scalable deployments across AWS and EKS, and authored new subsystem modules for the stack.
• ▸Built integration test suites simulating monthly-active-user behavior for IAM systems, and maintained complex Terraform, Helm, and Ansible deployments for consistent CI/CD and cluster operations.
• ▸Updated the internal dashboarding system to accurately track pipeline health and end-to-end test reports across teams.

Engineered full-stack features for Smart Buildings dashboards.

• ▸Integrated Django and PostgreSQL backend data pipelines with responsive React/Redux frontends, and extended the ASIP API to support large-scale dataset transfers.
• ▸Diagnosed and resolved 20+ UI/UX bugs and implemented high-coverage integration test suites for functional reliability.

Managed infrastructure operations and automated user provisioning across the organization.

• ▸Designed scripting-based automation for Active Directory and endpoint setup, enabling scalable onboarding for 500+ users.
• ▸Deployed servers and Splunk forwarders to accelerate log ingestion for analytics, and enforced consistent system management with Jamf, Grafana, and Group Policy.