James Kierstead
Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorJames Kierstead is a Solutions Architect with over 18 years in IT and 11 years focused on cloud architecture, currently designing and optimizing AWS solutions at Amazon Web Services from Ottawa. He brings deep multi-cloud expertise across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, plus hands-on experience in virtualization, SAN storage, DevOps, and large-scale application migration and modernization. Having held roles from SAN Storage Engineer to Associate Partner, he pairs infrastructure-first pragmatism with strategic architecture to deliver secure, cost-effective, and scalable cloud transformations. Certified at the professional level across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, he also mentors and trains teams, translating emerging cloud best practices into repeatable patterns. Colleagues rely on him for practical migration roadmaps and for balancing technical trade-offs with business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (28)
automated-deployment10
accelerator10
security-automation10
networking10
infrastructure-management10
solution10
security10
aws10
configuration-file10
region10
architectures10
devops10
development-kit9
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
archikierstead/dvja
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Damn Vulnerable Java (EE) Application
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
java-eevulnerablesecuritydamn-vulnerablejava
archikierstead/pythonhardway
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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