Summary
Cliff Hults is a Staff DevOps Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating secure, scalable cloud platforms for healthcare and cybersecurity clients. Based in New Jersey, he has led teams of engineers to deliver FedRAMP High-compliant deployment pipelines, automated dependency management, and progressive delivery for containerized, event-driven systems. Cliff is skilled in Terraform/Pulumi, Ansible, Kubernetes, and AWS GovCloud, and has driven measurable improvements such as a 20x artifact migration speedup and dramatic reductions in deployment times. He combines hands-on automation (from Packer-built VM templates to GitLab CI and synthetic monitoring with Grafana/K6) with program-level leadership and audit remediation expertise. Notably, he designed an automated system that leverages AWS Bedrock for sanitization and summarization to safely bridge global repo activity into compliant production workflows.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology