Katherine Ruud
Senior Cloud Architect at eCloud Managed Solutions, LLC
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolKatherine Ruud is a Senior Cloud Architect with nine years of engineering experience who specializes in AWS cloud migrations, infrastructure as code (Terraform and CloudFormation), and CI/CD automation. Based in Minneapolis, she combines a strong research and analytical background—holding an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and years of lab and algorithm development—with hands-on cloud delivery for streaming, CDN, and enterprise workloads. She’s certified in AWS and Terraform and has led well-architected reviews, cost analyses, and large-scale migrations including moving third-party CDN content into S3/CloudFront. Comfortable bridging technical and customer-facing roles, Katherine translates complex requirements into repeatable automated deployments and observability-driven operations. A former researcher who built experimental devices and data pipelines, she brings a rigorous, data-driven mindset to cloud architecture and optimization.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at University of Saint ThomasUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
katruud/Catstrap-VR-Tracker-Mounts
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:22 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
katruud/test.calorimeter.r
Apr 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 150 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years 10 months
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