Paul Underwood
Lead Principal Architect, Public Sector at Google
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Underwood is a Lead Principal Architect for Google Cloud Public Sector with over a decade of experience building cloud architectures, security, and resilience solutions for government, startups, and enterprise customers. Previously at AWS he led teams that built tooling used by thousands of users across 3.5k+ customers, influencing tens of millions in new service usage while codifying repeatable blueprints like the Biotech Blueprint that accelerated customer cloud adoption. He started his career delivering software for the US Treasury and Department of Homeland Security, bringing deep public-sector domain knowledge to cloud governance and risk work. Paul combines hands-on engineering and product-oriented leadership, having created portfolio-level risk quantification tools for private equity and VC-backed startups. Based in Austin, he is fluent at translating technical risk into actionable conversations between sales, engineering, and executive stakeholders. Notably, his work emphasizes operationalized security and cost optimization delivered as reusable, automated artifacts rather than one-off consulting engagements.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Finance, BS Computer Science Finance at Trinity University
Github Skills (23)
aws-cdk10
datasets10
step-functions10
aws10
aws-glue10
genomics10
aws-lake-formation9
batch9
data-lake8
pipeline8
aws-lambda8
blueprint8
oracle-database4
athena4
imputation2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/data-lake-as-code
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Data Lake as Code, featuring ChEMBL and OpenTargets
Contributions:1 review, 58 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 8 months
lakeaws-lake-formationaws-glueas-codeaws
aws-quickstart/quickstart-biotech-blueprint
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
AWS Quick Start Team
Contributions:104 commits, 12 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years
aws-lambdaquick-startaws
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