Chad Karon
Cloud Architect at McGraw Hill
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Karon is a Cloud Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing governance, automation, and secure identity controls across multi-cloud Azure and AWS environments. At McGraw Hill he builds IaC (Terraform, Bicep), CI/CD pipelines, and automation scripts that enabled a large-scale data center exit and delivered multimillion-dollar infrastructure savings. He focuses on practical security—PIM, Conditional Access, RBAC, workload identity federation and OIDC—to make developer onboarding safe and friction-free while applying FinOps practices to optimize spend. A former desktop support and scripting specialist, Chad pairs deep operational knowledge with developer-facing tooling, often solving problems with PowerShell and Bash at scale. His background in game development and early web programming gives him a pragmatic, product-minded approach to engineering problems and automation.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Brookdale Community CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Game Design and Development, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Game Design and Development at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (17)
password-generator8
passwords8
docker-container8
security7
encryption7
heroku6
password-manager6
ruby6
fabric5
minecraft5
kubernetes3
open-source3
forge3
sandbox2
machine-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ckaron0912/Portfolio-Website
Feb 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
javascriptreact
ckaron0912/rich-media-mvc-project
Apr 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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