A monthly log of what shipped
Short, dated entries — what moved from "in progress" to "in production."
July 2026
- Security
Closed a backup-restore access-control gap
Identified that encryption-at-rest alone didn't prevent authorized users from independently restoring sensitive backups outside intended access boundaries. Designed and led adoption of a certificate-based control that separates who can access a backup file from who can decrypt and restore it.
- FinOps
Cost-governance findings now feed ranked executive summaries
Automated reporting pipeline turns raw findings into a ranked summary.
- FinOps
Designed and led a multi-account AWS cost-optimization program
Audited cost data across multiple AWS accounts end-to-end, redesigned backup retention policy to a compliant standard, and decommissioned unused environments — delivered as a repeatable, documented program rather than a one-off cleanup.
- Architecture
Authored the HA/DR architecture justification for revenue-critical infrastructure
Built the technical case for Multi-AZ vs. Single-AZ storage architecture, linking the design decision directly to protected annual revenue — reframing an infrastructure choice as a business-risk decision for leadership sign-off.
- Architecture
Published a platform governance and onboarding standard
Authored a major revision of the team's infrastructure proposal, adding a governance and onboarding framework with a defined security model.
- FinOps
Built a Reserved Instance optimization and conflict-detection model
Designed a per-instance coverage model to identify optimization opportunities while flagging conflicts that would have created orphaned commitments.
June 2026
- Migration
First database cluster split from shared instance
Cut over the first product line into an isolated cluster.
- Reliability
Root-caused a critical performance escalation
Isolated a 24× traffic spike under daily leadership review.
- Security
Closed a cloud security exposure gap
Remediated overly permissive access rules across dozens of resources.