Randall Potter
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolRandall Potter is a Senior Solutions Architect with 17 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems and leading high-performing engineering organizations. Now at AWS, he blends deep hands-on expertise in AWS, Docker, microservices, CI/CD, streaming data and NLP with a proven ability to recruit, mentor, and scale teams that deliver stable, performant platforms. His career at CNN included founding the Data Intelligence department, architecting low-latency NLP and analytics APIs (one winning a Digiday award), and driving company-wide eventing and load-testing initiatives for major live events. Known for marrying technical rigor with candid, career-focused culture building, he consistently turns complex requirements into production-ready solutions across content platforms, first-party data pipelines, and ML operations. Based in Atlanta, he brings both startup agility (as a former founder) and enterprise-grade delivery to solve data and content challenges at scale.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Information Studies, Information Studies at Florida State UniversityAA, Computer Networking and Administration / E-Commerce / Design, AA, Computer Networking and Administration / E-Commerce / Design at Tallahassee Community College
English
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Github Skills (60)
docker8
reverse-proxy7
letsencrypt7
golang7
load-balancer7
flash6
google-chrome6
actionscript6
apartment6
proxy6
reformat6
kubernetes6
printing6
mongodb5
traefik5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rjspotter/vagrant-move-in
Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
ansiblevagrantsetting
rjspotter/emacs_config
May 2015 - Mar 2025
My Emacs Configuration (~/.emacs.d/)
Contributions:8 PRs, 96 pushes, 8 branches in 9 years 11 months
spacemacsemacs-configurationemacsemacs-lspmelpa
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