Summary
Ralph Reid is a Senior Cloud Engineer with 12 years of experience delivering cloud-native, secure, and cost-conscious infrastructure solutions across AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, and CI/CD ecosystems. He has repeatedly accelerated deployments (3X+) and cut operational costs through automation with Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Docker, and self-hosted runners while embedding automated compliance checks that reduced vulnerabilities by 30%. Ralph bridges SRE and data science needs—designing model-serving CI/CD and a self-hosted ClearML stack that improved scalability and is projected to save 10% in AWS spend. He’s led multi-region monitoring at scale (Thanos across 1,000+ nodes), migrated high-traffic workloads to container platforms, and mentored cross-functional teams to raise productivity by ~20%. With an eclectic background spanning software, education, and enterprise transformation, he brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to making complex distributed systems reliable and maintainable.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration, MBA Business Administration at Xavier University
Master of Software Engineering Computer Science, Master of Software Engineering Computer Science at Penn State World Campus
M.Ed. International Education, M.Ed. International Education at Framingham State University
BS Economics & Chemistry, BS Economics & Chemistry at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish, Italian