Summary
Joe Baldwin is a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer and DevOps architect with over 15 years of experience building secure, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure across AWS, GCP and traditional datacenters. He specializes in infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, CI/CD, and security compliance (including NIST 800-171) and has led cloud migrations and automation efforts for clients in finance, healthcare and government. A Navy veteran and nuclear-qualified machinist mate, Joe brings disciplined systems thinking and a history of hands-on scripting and toolbuilding—from Python migration utilities to Terraform-led multi-account platforms. He combines consultancy-level technical leadership with day-to-day execution on monitoring, cost optimization and compliance, and has repeatedly served as the primary resource for certification and deployment automation at scale. Based in Albuquerque, he balances deep operational expertise with a geeky curiosity that keeps him current across AWS, GitLab, Jenkins and Sentinel ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer