Summary
Tom Stewart is a Principal Infrastructure Security Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and securing cloud-native platforms, specializing in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI/CD. He has driven measurable impact—leading cloud sustainability initiatives that cut costs by 25% and delivering over $1M in annual savings—while managing systems that process billions of messages a year. Tom blends SRE rigor with security-first practices, implementing SLIs/SLOs, end-to-end observability, WAFs, mTLS, and container/Kubernetes hardening to reduce toil and improve resilience. He has a proven track record of leading teams through organizational change, championing automation and platform thinking to scale both people and systems. Outside engineering he’s an unusually prolific creative: author of three self-published novels and composer of 200+ original songs, a background that informs his pragmatic but inventive problem solving. Based in State College, PA, Tom combines operational discipline with strategic vision to bridge development, operations, and security in complex environments.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Information Sciences and Technology: Networking option, Associate of Science - AS Information Sciences and Technology: Networking option at Penn State University