Principal Engineer

Micheal
Wiseley

Mission Cloud — AWS & Cloud Infrastructure

Michael Wiseley

A decade of cloud engineering, infrastructure design, and technical leadership. I believe the hardest problems are the most worth solving.

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About

I've spent my career gravitating toward the hardest problems in cloud infrastructure; the migrations that scare teams, the architectures that don't have playbooks yet, the organizations that need to build the muscle from scratch.

"The obstacle in the path becomes the path."

Currently a Principal Engineer at CDW Digital Velocity, I work with client and internal teams on design and engineering in AWS, serving as a thought leader aligned with OCTO and management to drive best practice and upskilling.

Previously, I led a team of 12 engineers as Director of Cloud Engineering at Foghorn Consulting, and helped the PGA Tour migrate from on-prem infrastructure to AWS; refactoring business processes into serverless functions and microservices along the way.

Skills & Focus Areas

Cloud Platforms

AWS GCP Azure Multi-cloud

Infrastructure

Terraform CloudFormation Pulumi IaC

Architecture

Serverless Microservices FinOps Secure Architectures Regulated Workloads DevSecOps Pipelines High Performance Computing Data Architecture

Leadership

Principal Engineering Team Building C-Suite Engagement

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect AWS DevOps Pro AWS SysOps AWS Machine Learning AWS Security GCP Associate CE KCNA KCSA

Practices

DevOps CI/CD Cloud Custodian Observability

Security & AI

Cloud Cybersecurity AI Architectures AI Infrastructure

Writing

Published on Substack

Notes on cloud architecture, FinOps, and the things worth writing down.

Read on Substack ↗

Tweaks