Summary
Dave Schwinn is a senior cloud engineer based in Cincinnati with over 25 years in IT and a decade focused on cloud engineering and infrastructure-as-code. He has led large-scale migrations and modernization efforts—most notably moving 350+ on-prem servers to AWS—while applying GitOps, Terraform, and API-driven automation to deliver secure, cost-optimized environments. Comfortable across networking, virtualization, and cloud platforms, he blends hands-on systems expertise from his early networking career with modern lifecycle management and Well-Architected governance. Dave is pragmatic about cost and compliance, having identified nearly $250k in annual savings through rightsizing and lifecycle changes, and he designs DR and MLOps solutions that meet aggressive RPO/RTO needs. Colleagues rely on him to resurrect institutional knowledge and build repeatable, auditable infrastructure that supports blue-green and canary deployments.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer