Summary
Royce Souther is a seasoned DevOps and DevSecOps developer with over eight years of experience orchestrating secure, enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid deployments across AWS, Azure, and on-prem data centers. He combines hands-on engineering—building React Native apps, Spring Boot services, Terraform IaC, Docker containers and automated CI/CD pipelines—with a track record of improving deployment cadence and security posture for NATO- and FedRAMP-aligned systems. Royce has led migrations, hardened infrastructure (OpenVPN/FIPS, Nginx, Kali pen-testing), and delivered measurable business impact such as dramatically faster release cycles and increased company profits. Comfortable from embedded Linux and PLC lab automation to multi-cloud Kubernetes and Terraform, he brings an unusually broad technical history that includes patent-level embedded work and founding small engineering firms. Currently developing a Nova project that simulates AWS with LocalStack and YAML Compose, he blends strategic planning with practical demos to sell and prove complex solutions.
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineering Technologist Electronic System Design, Electronic Engineering Technologist Electronic System Design at Lethbridge Polytechnic