Gary Stafford
Principal Solutions Architect - Media And Entertainment at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGary Stafford is a Principal Solutions Architect specializing in Media & Entertainment at AWS, bringing 12 years of hands-on experience architecting cloud-native, data-driven, and AI/ML solutions for large-scale streaming, broadcast, and D2C platforms. A 14x AWS-certified "Gold Jacket" professional and polyglot developer, he couples deep technical breadth—containers, DevOps, generative AI, and data analytics—with a proven track record guiding born-in-the-cloud and enterprise customers through complex cloud transformations. His career blends product and engineering leadership from startups to Fortune-scale firms, including prior roles as Enterprise Architect and DevOps lead that informed pragmatic, cost-effective architectures. Known as a speaker and author, he translates technical strategy into business outcomes while mentoring teams to adopt automation and resilient practices. An unusual strength is his combination of executive P&L and CTO experience from earlier ventures with modern cloud engineering, giving him rare empathy for both technical delivery and commercial impact.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, BFA at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHS Diploma General, HS Diploma General at Geneseo Central School
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Github Skills (200)
swagger10
svg10
openapi10
fault-injection10
json10
draw10
amazon10
terraform-provider10
observe10
terraform10
istio10
rest-api10
jenkins-docker10
amazon-emr10
proxies10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
garystafford/microservice-docker-demo-widget
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1 commit, 240 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
garystafford/k8s-istio-observe-frontend
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
Angular 12-based front-end UI for k8s Golang observability project: https://github.com/garystafford/k8s-istio-observe-backend/tree/2021-istio
Contributions:5 releases, 30 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 4 months
golangobservabilityistiobackendkubernetes
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