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Hi, I'm Christian, a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer and DevSecOps specialist with 14+ years designing, automating, and securing enterprise-grade cloud platforms. I architect scalable platform engineering capabilities, GitOps automation, and multi-account AWS environments for regulated and private-sector organizations, with a focus on Kubernetes/EKS, Crossplane, CI/CD, security-by-design architectures, and cloud governance frameworks. I'm passionate about building observable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive adoption of modern practices like GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and security by design across complex enterprise environments.…Hi, I'm Christian, a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer and DevSecOps specialist with 14+ years designing, automating, and securing enterprise-grade cloud platforms. I architect scalable platform engineering capabilities, GitOps automation, and multi-account AWS environments for regulated and private-sector organizations, with a focus on Kubernetes/EKS, Crossplane, CI/CD, security-by-design architectures, and cloud governance frameworks. I'm passionate about building observable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive adoption of modern practices like GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and security by design across complex enterprise environments.

Christian Turner

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Hi, I'm Christian, a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer and DevSecOps specialist with 14+ years designing, automating, and securing enterprise-grade cloud platforms. I architect scalable platform engineering capabilities, GitOps automation, and multi-account AWS environments for regulated and private-sector organizations, with a focus on Kubernetes/EKS, Crossplane, CI/CD, security-by-design architectures, and cloud governance frameworks. I'm passionate about building observable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive adoption of modern practices like GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and security by design across complex enterprise environments.…Hi, I'm Christian, a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer and DevSecOps specialist with 14+ years designing, automating, and securing enterprise-grade cloud platforms. I architect scalable platform engineering capabilities, GitOps automation, and multi-account AWS environments for regulated and private-sector organizations, with a focus on Kubernetes/EKS, Crossplane, CI/CD, security-by-design architectures, and cloud governance frameworks. I'm passionate about building observable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive adoption of modern practices like GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and security by design across complex enterprise environments.

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Hi, I’m Christian, a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer and DevSecOps specialist with 14+ years designing, automating, and securing enterprise-grade cloud platforms. I architect scalable platform engineering capabilities, GitOps automation, and multi-account AWS environments for regulated and private-sector organizations, with a focus on Kubernetes/EKS, Crossplane, CI/CD, security-by-design architectures, and cloud governance frameworks.

I’m passionate about building observable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive adoption of modern practices like GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and security by design across complex enterprise environments.

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Platform Engineer / DevSecOps at Ottawa Cloud Consulting

July 1, 2016 - November 14, 2025

Architected 3 multi-account AWS organizations managing 200+ workloads with governance, SCPs, identity models, and compliance baselines aligned to NIST, CIS, and ITSG. Improved deployment frequency by 30% through GitOps automation with ArgoCD and Azure DevOps, managing over 50 microservices. Designed 30+ serverless, event-driven, and containerized workloads reducing operational overhead by 40% and infrastructure costs by $25K annually. Engineered 3 production EKS clusters consisting of 3 node groups with auto-scaling node members, implementing IRSA, multi-node isolation, Cilium networking, and hardened RBAC models achieving 99.9% uptime. Developed a modular Crossplane + KCL provisioning framework with versioned OCI bundles, provisioning 100+ infrastructure components and reducing deployment errors by 75%. Reduced Kubernetes onboarding time by over 60% through deterministic automation and developer Golden Paths. Built 12 operational dashboards covering metrics, security, compliance, logs

DevOps Manager at HighRoads Inc.

December 1, 2016 - December 1, 2016

Migrated 40+ production workloads from VMware to AWS, reducing costs by 35% and improving platform resilience. Delivered active–passive HIPAA-compliant DR architecture meeting strict NIST RTO/RPO objectives. Introduced DevOps and automation practices improving deployment frequency by 50% and removing manual steps. Operationalized 3 hybrid AWS/on-prem architectures supporting 100+ workloads with scalable and secure patterns. Standardized engineering workflows enabling effective collaboration across a 15-person offshore engineering team.

Infrastructure Manager at Dymon Corporation

June 1, 2015 - June 1, 2015

Migrated 40+ production workloads from VMware to AWS, reducing costs by 35% and improving platform resilience.

IT & DevOps Manager at GeoDigital International

December 1, 2014 - December 1, 2014

Designed and deployed a GIS SaaS platform on AWS serving 500+ global clients across 15 countries with 99.5% uptime. Engineered 1–2 TB/day data ingestion pipeline improving engineering timelines by 50%. Delivered secure, robust data-transfer processing 1–2 TB daily for GIS engineering workloads with 99.8% reliability. Managed and optimized on-premises PostgreSQL/PostGIS databases supporting high-volume GIS engineering workloads. Managed infrastructure operations for 8 production and engineering environments supporting 25+ engineering staff.