Summary
Rudy Desjardins is a Senior Cloud Operations Developer with over a decade of hands-on experience and more than 20 years in the industry combining software engineering, ops, security, and network administration. He has led large-scale cloud and on-prem migrations, built zero-downtime releases and full IaC stacks, and owned data warehousing and analytics reliability for gaming and enterprise platforms. Equally comfortable writing Python and tinkering with Lisp, he’s automated complex CI/CD and self-deploying infrastructure and isn’t afraid of 4 a.m. pages. As an independent contractor and owner-operator of Sandbenders, he delivers repeatable, code-driven prototypes and end-to-end cloud management while also teaching cloud and systems courses. His background includes deep legacy debugging, NOC-level operations, and a practical security foundation from SANS training—plus the old-school pride of maintaining filesystems older than his kids.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Sheridan College
Security Essentials, Security Essentials at SANS West 2009