Summary
David Plappert is a founder and AWS cost consultant with 11 years of experience helping organizations align cloud architecture with business value and eliminate waste for teams spending $5K+/month. He runs Cut My AWS—offering read-only audits, detailed remediation plans, and implementation tied to verified savings—and founded PhoneLive.io, reflecting a blend of product-first entrepreneurship and hands-on cloud engineering. His clients include enterprise and public-sector teams at Caterpillar, Best Buy, PBS, DC Government, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Argonne National Laboratory, and he holds a US patent for serverless audio broadcasting. Former roles as DevOps Team Lead and cloud engineer across IdeaCrew, PBS, Argonne, and Best Buy show deep operational experience across large-scale and mission-driven environments. David’s no-nonsense, risk-aligned approach (no savings, no fee) pairs practical technical fixes with measurable financial outcomes, and he’s based in Peoria, Illinois while continuing to build product and consultancy offerings.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English