Robert Elsner
Principal Cloud Application Architect
Springfield, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Elsner is a Principal Cloud Application Architect at AWS with 11+ years of experience designing and leading large-scale cloud migrations and resilient platform transformations for financial, energy, and ISV customers. He combines hands-on engineering—authoring Terraform modules, container strategies, and guardrail automation—with people leadership, having led multi-discipline teams and programs that accelerate new AWS consultants. His background spans full-stack and SRE work, from legacy C and Linux optimization to modern Microsoft and Linux workloads on AWS, reflecting deep cross-platform fluency. Based in Springfield, Ohio, he’s known for pragmatic, security-minded designs that prioritize operational resilience and international deployment. An unspoken strength is his history of tooling and automation (Packer, Vagrant, Golden images, CI practices) that smooth complex data center exits and migrations.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Southwestern Adventist University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
api-platform7
windows6
postman6
winforms6
docker6
linux6
macos6
linux-kernel6
webjobs6
visual-studio6
data-reader6
kudu5
azure3
python2
git2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
1digicoder/vm-builder
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:71 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
1digicoder/packer-windows
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
packer-templateswindowspacker
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