Nathan Ford
Sr. Cloud Architect, AWS ProServe Expert Services at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorNathan Ford is a senior cloud architect with 17 years in IT and nine years focused on cloud and platform engineering, currently leading ProServe Expert Services at AWS from Denver. He designs and delivers large-scale migrations and modernization programs—most notably building the Cloud2AWS offering and acting as the Graviton SME on multi-million dollar migrations from Azure to AWS. Nathan blends hands-on DevOps, Kubernetes, and systems architecture skills with strategic leadership, translating executive priorities into clear, auditable roadmaps for enterprise customers. His background includes mission-critical cloud transformations at Boeing where he drove cost-saving infrastructure redesigns and evangelized DevOps and agile practices across teams. Comfortable both in deep technical delivery and customer-facing consulting, he has a track record of turning legacy data-center estates into efficient, automated cloud platforms. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic modernization choices that balance risk mitigation, cost reduction, and measurable business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (20)
graviton10
amazon-ec210
amazon10
aws9
azure9
arm9
amazon-web-services8
microsoft-azure8
microsoft8
command-line-interface7
aws-cli6
cli6
kubernetes-deployment6
aws-cloudformation6
kubernetes-cluster6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nluckenbill/aws-graviton-getting-started
Aug 2021 - Apr 2023
This document is meant to help new users start using the Arm-based AWS Graviton and Graviton2 processors which power the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 instances (C6g[d], M6g[d], R6g[d], T4g, X2gd, C6gn)
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 8 months
instancesec2amazon-ec2graviton2processors
nluckenbill/eu_test
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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