Paul Welch is a Machine Learning Engineer and seasoned IT leader with over 20 years of experience designing and operating secure, highly available enterprise infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments. He has a track record of translating business needs into ROI-driven IT transformation—implementing Zero Trust architectures, achieving 99.99% uptime, and ensuring compliance with ISO 27001, NIST, and SOC 2. Paul blends hands-on networking, cloud (Azure/AWS), virtualization, and M365 expertise with leadership of high-performance teams and vendor strategy across distributed sites. Lately he’s focused on machine learning, containers, microservices, and DevOps, pairing modern ML deployment patterns with a deep operational background. Based in Seattle, he brings a pragmatic, security-first approach informed by prior cyber operations in the U.S. Air Force and a history of building SOPs, runbooks, and automated observability that keep systems resilient in production.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Information Technology Management, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science Information Technology Management, Information Technology at WGU Washington
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 4 months
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