Walter D.

·  Reduced AWS monthly spending by 40% through Reserved Instance utilization, application right sizing, auto scaling groups, and reporting.

·  Scaled an AWS ingest pipeline to handle more then 15T monthly events using Kinesis Firehose, SQS, Cassandra, EMR, Lambda, and S3 generating 72TB of monthly data across 600K files. Sustained a peak daily throughput of 1T events.

·  Reduced AWS spending by $3M annualized without requiring a change in architecture.

·  Implemented an AWS tagging policy and compliance reporting system.

·  Developed multi-cloud AWS to IBM Cloud terraform CI/CD pipeline

Created a banking payments platform with real-time cost optimizations to lower service API costs and to provide switching of backend service providers without affecting the user experience.

The solution was designed as a B2B solution.

Solution Architect and Lead Developer for Toyota’s transformative multi-million project, orchestrating the migration of 2000 engineers to AWS's next-generation Integrated Digital Engineering (IDEA) platform, designed for virtual desktops (VDI) and high-performance computing (HPC).

·  Streamlined User Experience: Designed an efficient user experience by redesigning the user workflow and application, condensing a 12-step process into a single click. This enhancement significantly improved user productivity and satisfaction.

·  IDEA Platform Enhancements: Lead developer to enhance the IDEA platform to meet Toyota’s business and security requirements. The solution included ReactJS, Python, Jinja, bash, and PowerShell and optimizing the platform's performance and functionality.

Turner Broadcasting is using the AWS Cloud to provide storage and content processing required to enable mission-critical video libraries. Turner is creating a copy of CNN's 37-year news video library in AWS to take advantage of the cost and architectural benefits of cloud storage. This project has unique requirements around retrieval times, and Turner partnered with AWS to drive specific capabilities such as those Amazon Glacier expedited and bulk retrieval options. These cloud-based archives can enable Turner to use other cloud-based value-add services, such as AI/ML/search, and media supply chains efficiently. Turner's global content exploitation strategies call for extensive versioning of content assets required for distribution to different platforms, products, and regions. Today, this involves complex workflows to derive multiple downstream versions. Adopting the SMPTE Interoperable Mastering Format (IMF) and cloud-based object storage, Turner will dramatically simplify these workflows by enabling cloud-based automation and elastic scalability. Hear Turner’s strategy, implementation around these media workloads, and lessons learned.

See AWS re:Invent 2017: Turner's Cloud Archive for CNN's Video Library and Global Multip

Led the cloud migration for the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV video stream solution being an Azure-only solution to supporting AWS and Openstack.