Summary
Thomas Rectenwald is a Principal Architect and hands-on cloud CTO with over 20 years of experience modernizing infrastructure, automation, and data platforms—focused on AWS, Databricks, and production-ready ML workloads. He combines deep operations roots (Unix, storage, networking) with modern IaC and CI/CD practice, driving large-scale, secure AWS deployments and long-term maintainability. At PrimeAI and AWS he led architecture and implementation of full-stack and data platforms using Terraform, ECS, FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL and GitLab CI, often translating business goals into pragmatic engineering tradeoffs. Thomas holds five active AWS certifications including Solutions Architect – Professional and brings a practical, customer-centric consulting style honed across enterprise and regulated environments. Colleagues rely on him for stability-first designs and for turning legacy environments into automated, auditable platforms. Based in Glen Allen, VA, he pairs technical breadth with a background in English that sharpens his documentation and cross-team communication.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature General, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature General at Binghamton University
English