Dear potential client Hi, I'm Ken, and I promise you this document comes from a real human. I am a people-focused engineer and feel a keen obligation to help in the community. I extend that desire to help in all of my interactions to coworkers, customers and clients as I truly feel that those you work with are an extension of your family. I have had the pleasure of leading systems engineering efforts for both large scale and small concepts from the drawing board to production deployments in both AWS and GCP; with a primary infrastructure deployment strategy revolving around Terraform. Through these efforts I have been involved or responsible at every step of the way, from local build environments for developers new to the world of containerization, liaison with core networking teams, security and organizational policy leaders, to implementation of techniques like Binary Authorization to ensure positive control over production code, CI/CD security scan implementation via a centralized template system and SRE instrumentation to identify, track and agree to service behaviors. In each of these roles and teams, I have demonstrated an understanding of system and process problems, and guided these projects towards a well-architected footing. Experience working in teams from 2 to 40 on a daily basis has also provided me with a keen awareness of the third part of that table; people. Leading efforts require people and time, and maintaining those people is a core part of ensuring the success of the project. While it is rewarding to watch a proof of concept piece of software begin living and breathing in a hardened cloud environment for the greater good of the business, I find that cultivating the people involved for their betterment along the way completes the journey. Now, I put my knowledge, understanding, and person on your screen, in hopes of joining your organization to make a positive impact on people. Sincerely, I thank you for the consideration, one human to another; Ken Decoteau…Dear potential client Hi, I'm Ken, and I promise you this document comes from a real human. I am a people-focused engineer and feel a keen obligation to help in the community. I extend that desire to help in all of my interactions to coworkers, customers and clients as I truly feel that those you work with are an extension of your family. I have had the pleasure of leading systems engineering efforts for both large scale and small concepts from the drawing board to production deployments in both AWS and GCP; with a primary infrastructure deployment strategy revolving around Terraform. Through these efforts I have been involved or responsible at every step of the way, from local build environments for developers new to the world of containerization, liaison with core networking teams, security and organizational policy leaders, to implementation of techniques like Binary Authorization to ensure positive control over production code, CI/CD security scan implementation via a centralized template system and SRE instrumentation to identify, track and agree to service behaviors. In each of these roles and teams, I have demonstrated an understanding of system and process problems, and guided these projects towards a well-architected footing. Experience working in teams from 2 to 40 on a daily basis has also provided me with a keen awareness of the third part of that table; people. Leading efforts require people and time, and maintaining those people is a core part of ensuring the success of the project. While it is rewarding to watch a proof of concept piece of software begin living and breathing in a hardened cloud environment for the greater good of the business, I find that cultivating the people involved for their betterment along the way completes the journey. Now, I put my knowledge, understanding, and person on your screen, in hopes of joining your organization to make a positive impact on people. Sincerely, I thank you for the consideration, one human to another; Ken DecoteauWWWW…