Tejay Cardon
Principal at Crucial Clarity
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTejay Cardon is a principal technology leader and founder with 13+ years of experience turning cloud and product engineering complexity into measurable business value. He founded Crucial Clarity to eliminate wasteful cloud and SaaS spend—routinely delivering ~30%+ savings—while helping organizations reframe IT as a value-driving investment. Previously he led large-scale engineering and transformation efforts at Tabula Rasa HealthCare, driving cloud migrations, vendor negotiations, and architecture modernizations that unlocked millions in savings and materially improved performance and agility. Comfortable in both the boardroom and the ops trenches, he blends deep technical chops in AWS, DevOps, and distributed systems with product strategy, FinOps, and M&A integration experience. Notably, he has overseen migrations of 500+ microservices to container platforms and rebuilt teams through high-attrition periods while reducing audit burdens and accelerating delivery. He holds an MS in Management Information Systems and applies a pragmatic, cost-aware lens to designing systems that solve customers’ hardest problems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-IdahoMasters of Science Management Information Systems, Masters of Science Management Information Systems at Boston University
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Github Skills (63)
react-native10
mattermost10
golang10
monorepo10
chef-infra10
collaboration10
react10
login-system9
minio9
aws-signature9
ssh9
merge-request9
logging8
streaming8
jruby8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tejaycar/platform
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 47 pushes, 7 branches in 11 months
golangreactslackmattermostslack-alternative
markolson/chef-ssh
Oct 2014 - Dec 2017
Chef cookbook for managing some mildly-difficult-to-automate SSH configuration
Contributions:6 releases, 54 commits, 37 PRs in 3 years 3 months
ssh
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