Summary
Scott Lackey is an experienced cloud engineering leader with 11 years building secure, reliable AWS-centric infrastructures and leading high-performing teams from hands-on engineering to executive direction. Currently Executive Director of Cloud Engineering in Santa Monica, he has scaled cloud platforms and automation across startups and enterprises—designing messaging architectures, global LDAP/SAML authentication, and DR-ready private clouds. A practitioner of DevOps and security, he pairs deep technical skills in AWS, Cloudflare, Datadog, Aurora and automation with a mentor-first management style that prioritizes career development and team engagement. Notably, his background spans telecom-grade high-availability engineering through to modern cloud-native operations, giving him a rare breadth from infrastructure internals to organizational leadership.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Cybersecurity and information assurance, Master's degree Cybersecurity and information assurance at Western Governors University
English, Russian, Spanish, Italian