Summary
Robert Stone is a Principal Cloud Application Architect with 14 years of experience modernizing legacy systems into cloud-native, containerized architectures and driving measurable business outcomes. At AWS he leverages deep hands-on expertise—from Perl and JavaScript to Kubernetes, OpenShift, Kafka, and CI/CD pipelines—to help teams move monoliths to microservices and adopt DevOps practices. He has led engineering organizations as a CTO and director, mentors engineers through pair programming and TDD, and repeatedly improved throughput and reliability by introducing testing, automation, and container platforms. A former instructor and MCAT teacher, he pairs technical depth with a knack for teaching complex concepts, and his background in computational research (bioinformatics, genetic algorithms and high-performance computing) gives him an uncommon blend of theoretical rigor and pragmatic delivery.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Biological Sciences, Bachelors of Science Biological Sciences at Florida Atlantic University
English