Summary
Arlington Albertson is an experienced infrastructure and SRE leader with 11+ years building and scaling cloud-first systems for startups and enterprises, currently focused on edge deployments. He has a proven track record driving large AWS programs, Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, and security compliance—helping teams achieve DoD IL5/FedRAMP outcomes and delivering sustained multi-million dollar cost reductions. Comfortable both hands-on (from networking and on-prem to EKS/OIDC and Terraform) and translating technical complexity to executives, he has repeatedly stood up corporate IT and global cloud operations from stealth to hundreds of users. A natural mentor and frequent interviewer, he’s been a founding SRE at major orgs and led cross-functional teams to shore up security and reliability under tight timelines. Not obvious from titles: he built entire office tech stacks and event-ready demo infrastructures early in his career, demonstrating a blend of operational rigor and practical creativity. Based in Washington, DC, he thrives on turning chaotic startup environments into efficient, repeatable systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
GED GED, GED GED at Edmonds College