Summary
John Vardanian is a Principal Cloud Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience modernizing AWS environments, authoring IaC, and mentoring teams to certification-level expertise. He has led multi-account, multi-region, and GovCloud migrations, built CI/CD pipelines with GitLab/Jenkins/CodeSuite, and operationalized container platforms with EKS/ECS and Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD). A former educator, he combines pragmatic engineering with clear technical writing and training skills, having created curricula for Python, DevOps, and cloud fundamentals. His background in web development and security informs a risk-aware approach to cloud architecture and automated deployments, reinforced by an AWS Security Specialty. Recognized internally as a Mentor Hero, he excels at transferring knowledge and raising team capability while delivering measurable infrastructure improvements. Based in Austin, he pairs persistent curiosity with a doer’s mindset to solve complex, production-scale cloud challenges.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Moorpark College