Mike Qin is a senior cloud and security architect with over 20 years of technical leadership experience, currently serving as SVP, Cloud Security Architect Engineer at Citi after recent principal cloud roles at American Airlines and Charles Schwab. He designs and delivers secure, high-traffic, distributed enterprise systems using microservices, event-driven patterns, and domain-driven design, backed by hands-on expertise in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform and DevSecOps. Mike leads global teams spanning cloud engineering, SRE, and cybersecurity, turning complex regulatory and industry requirements (finance, telecom, automotive) into simple, reliable architectures. He holds both an MS in Computer Information Systems and an MBA, blending technical depth with business acumen to align architecture with strategic goals. Notably, his career progression from software architect roles at TELUS and major automakers to senior cloud leadership reflects a sustained focus on operationalizing secure cloud at scale.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration at Tennessee State University
Master of Science - MS Computer Information Systems, Master of Science - MS Computer Information Systems at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
This repository has set of ansible playbooks created to setup a kubernetes cluster fully automated with one master and two worker nodes. This will work on physical servers, virtual machines, aws cloud, google cloud or any other cloud servers. This has been tested and verified on Centos 7.3 64 bit operating systems.
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