Randy Ridgley
Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Winter Garden, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRandy Ridgley is a Principal Solutions Architect with nearly a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale, real-time systems across media, entertainment, and casino gaming. He combines deep hands-on expertise in AWS (CDK, Kinesis, Glue, IoT, SageMaker/Bedrock) with a proven track record of building customer 360 platforms, streaming data lakes, and low-latency device lobbies that process hundreds of millions of messages daily. Randy led transformative modernization efforts at Walt Disney World that cut operational costs dramatically and drove measurable guest experience improvements, and he now helps enterprise M&E customers apply LLMs, RAG, and orchestration tools like LangChain to unlock new product capabilities. A pragmatic engineering leader and mentor, he moves projects from ideation to production while contributing code to open-source AWS CDK modules to accelerate deployment. Notably, he blends embedded IoT device development (Go/Linux) with cloud-native infrastructure as code to eliminate duplicate effort and enable global scale. Based in Winter Garden, FL, he’s passionate about bringing streaming analytics and real-time decisioning into mission-critical customer experiences.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Purdue University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
cloud-development-kit10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
aws-batch10
sagemaker9
aws-s39
landing-zone9
jupyter-notebook9
data-lake9
ai8
machine-learning8
desktop-application8
amazon-web-services8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
randyridgley/cdk-7layer-constructs
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:37 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
randyridgley/cdk-snippets
May 2020 - Aug 2021
CDK Snippets from example projects
Contributions:100 commits, 37 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 3 months
desktop-applicationproject-planningexample-projectssnippetsaws
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