Wayne Folkes
Principal Cloud Architect at Shutterstock
Village of Valley Stream, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWayne Folkes is a Principal Cloud Architect with over a decade of experience designing and automating cloud infrastructure for high-traffic internet businesses. He combines hands-on expertise in AWS, Python, Ruby and Linux with a track record of leading teams through large migrations, multi-account AWS architectures, and cost optimization efforts. At Shutterstock he built automation that scaled the company’s AWS account footprint fourfold, reduced onboarding time from a week to under a day, and delivered tooling and reporting that informed a $135M EDP renewal. Previously at Meetup he led cloud architecture and streaming initiatives that decoupled services from monolithic databases and enabled serverless, event-driven product development. Known for pragmatic automation and cross-team collaboration, he also engages directly with AWS product teams to shape feature adoption and improve platform reliability. Based in New York, he blends operational rigor with developer-focused tooling to accelerate velocity without sacrificing security or continuity.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at New York University
Github Skills (61)
ecr10
sam10
serverless-applications10
aws-sam10
keychain10
aws10
lambda10
credentials10
serverless-application-model9
python9
cfn-lint9
docker9
api-gateway9
aws-cloudformation9
cloud-security9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wayne-folkes/practice-python
Jul 2019 - May 2022
Solutions to http://www.practicepython.org questions
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 10 months
data-analysispython
wayne-folkes/image-replicator
Feb 2020 - Oct 2023
Copy images to ECR
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
centermanualecraws
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