Summary
Jeremy Polen is a Senior Cloud Architect with over 15 years of professional experience and a 35-year lifelong passion for computers, skilled at architecting cost-conscious, scalable cloud and hybrid solutions that meet strict compliance requirements like PCI. He combines deep hands-on expertise across AWS, Azure, Linux/Windows server administration, databases, networking and automation tooling (Packer, Terraform, CloudFormation, EKS) with a developer's mindset in .NET, NodeJS, Bash and PowerShell. At SWBC he led large-scale migrations (500+ servers to AWS), built auto-scaling ELK and NGINX stacks, and authored automation that aggregates cross-account AWS data in seconds—demonstrating an obsessive focus on repeatability and performance. Jeremy’s background as a self-taught tinkerer and Red Hat Certified Engineer informs a knack for unconventional, metadata-driven solutions (dynamic form frameworks, runtime NHibernate object models) that reduce developer toil. He’s equally comfortable optimizing SQL Server performance and building multi-threaded desktop systems as he is designing cloud-native infrastructure, making him a practical architect who still digs into code and ops. Based in San Antonio, he brings pragmatic creativity: if a problem looks boxed in, he’s the one convinced there is no box.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
No Degree Completed, Mathematics and Computer Science, No Degree Completed, Mathematics and Computer Science at Texas Tech University