Iain Elder
Head AWS Fixer at Freelance
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIain Elder is a seasoned AWS specialist and founder who has spent 11 years helping organisations from startups to enterprises tame cloud cost, complexity and compliance as Head AWS Fixer at Clyde Cloud Consulting. He combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic architecture—shipping solutions that cut costs (storage and compute reductions by tens of percent), speed restores from hours to minutes, and scale services to hundreds of concurrent apps without disruption. His track record includes multi-account observability and security rollouts at Volkswagen and Merck, inventive use of Macie for PII discovery in Swiss compliance, and bespoke tooling to manage thousands of CloudFormation instances. Comfortable intervening in crisis incidents or designing long-term platforms, he pairs deep operational know-how with a consultative approach that favours measurable outcomes and auditability. Based in Glasgow, he’s as likely to automate a tedious restore script into a CloudFormation pattern as he is to present an enterpriseready innovation architecture.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Internet Computer Science, BSc Internet Computer Science at University of St AndrewsMaster of Science (MSc) Business Intelligence, Master of Science (MSc) Business Intelligence at University of Dundee
Spanish, English, German
Stackoverflow
20,275reputation
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47questions
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
bots10
ubuntu10
visual-studio10
erd10
dump10
csv-parsing10
linter10
command-line-tool10
serverless10
dynamodb10
credentials10
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sqlite-extension10
database-access10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
iainelder/aws-org-tree
Dec 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 release, 75 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
iainelder/aws-org-inventory
Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
Dumps to CSV all the resources in an organization's member accounts
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 1 year 3 months
inventorycsvpythonmemberaccounts
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