Samuel “Sam” Haile

Operating in the insurtech sector, Bold Penguin is a privately held organization providing a digital marketplace and infrastructure connecting small businesses with commercial insurance carriers and agents.

• Provision and maintain Amazon Bedrock AgentCore infrastructure (runtimes, credential/secret management, guardrails) via AWS CDK across multiple environments to support agentic AI service deployments.
• Lead migration of production microservices from ECS to EKS, coordinating cross-team dependencies and updating CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Partner with agentic and cloud engineering teams to plan phased service migrations and environment promotion workflows.

• Enabled the agentic engineering team to ship AI agent services faster by standing up secure, per-environment AgentCore infrastructure with guardrails and credential isolation.
• Migrated multiple production microservices from ECS to EKS without service disruption, unblocking cloud engineering's platform modernization roadmap.
• Streamlined multi-team environment promotion (dev to alpha to beta to prod) through standardized AWS CDK and CloudFormation IaC patterns.

• AWS: Amazon Bedrock, ECS, EKS, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch
• IaC & Automation: AWS CDK (Python), CloudFormation
• DevOps & Security: CI/CD, Secret Management, Guardrails, Container Orchestration

Operating in the aviation and transportation technology sector, AirTera is a privately held organization providing security, safety, and compliance solutions for airlines, airports, and ground-operations clients.

• Architected and deployed secure AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK (ECS Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, VPC, Aurora Postgres, RDS SQL Server).
• Built GitLab CI/CD pipelines integrating Trivy, Semgrep, dependency scanning, and deployment gates.
• Implemented SOC 2 technical controls including CloudWatch logging, KMS encryption, WAF/Shield, CloudTrail/Config auditing, and OIDC‑based CI/CD authentication.
• Replatformed core services from Supabase to Aurora Postgres, improving schema‑change lead time and reliability.
• Migrated legacy Windows Task Scheduler workloads to serverless .NET 8 Lambdas using EventBridge and SES.
• Enhanced observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana; improved developer experience.

• Led migration of a monorepo Operations platform (APIs, Next.js frontends) to AWS with full SOC 2 alignment.
• Achieved SOC 2 certification readiness in under 90 days, enabling enterprise expansion.
• Reduced infrastructure cost by 20–30% through Lambda optimization and standardized IaC modules.
• Delivered a fully serverless reporting system with deterministic outputs and sub‑10‑second execution time.

• AWS: ECS Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, VPC, Aurora Postgres, RDS SQL Server, Secrets Manager, KMS, WAF/Shield
• DevSecOps: GitLab CI/CD, OIDC, Trivy, Docker, IAM least privilege, SOC 2 controls
• IaC & Automation: AWS CDK (TypeScript), Terraform
• Applications: Node.js, .NET 8
• Observability: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Prometheus, Grafana

Operating in the marine, energy, and industrial sectors, the Digital Center of MAN Energy Solutions has approximately 75 employees globally.

• Built and maintained DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized applications to improve deployment speed and reliability.
• Implemented self‑service deployment workflows, reducing issue resolution time by up to 40%.
• Designed scalable infrastructure for data science and AI workloads.
• Integrated HashiCorp Vault with Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Terraform to enforce CIS/NIST controls and dynamic secrets.

• Migrated Analytics platform to Terraform IaC, reducing deployment time by 40% and increasing scalability by 30%.
• Automated vulnerability scanning and compliance checks, raising CIS to 100% and NIST to 96%.
• Designed CI/CD pipelines supporting 50+ releases annually.
• Developed reusable Terraform modules for standardized provisioning.

• AWS: IAM, EC2, EBS, AutoScaling, Load Balancers, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, ECR, EKS
• Security: HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Security Hub, Inspector, GuardDuty
• DevOps Tooling: Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Rancher, Artifactory
• IaC & Automation: Terraform, Ansible
• Observability & Data: Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, MongoDB

Operating in the consulting sector, Accenture is a Publicly-Held organization employing over 700,000 employees worldwide.

• Optimized CI/CD pipelines and automating infrastructure provisioning, reduced application deployment times by 50% and operational costs by 30%, allowing quicker adaptation to market demands and delivering value to clients faster.
• Implemented Static Application Security Testing (SAST) capability for a major water company, integrating security checks into the CI/CD pipeline to identify and remediate code vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle.

• Successfully contributed to the migration of a multi-environment infrastructure (staging, pre-production, production) using Terraform, enhancing security by isolating production, pre-production and staging environments. This accomplishment also led to a 40% reduction in manual configuration errors and improved overall resource management throughout the application lifecycle.
• Integrated Fortify security checks into the CI/CD pipeline which enhanced application security, reduced security-related release delays by 30%, and ensured compliance with regulations for critical infrastructure in the water sector.
• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines leveraging Jenkins, Helm, and Kubernetes to deploy and manage containerized applications on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), ensuring seamless application updates and high availability.

• AWS: EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
• Security: Fortify (SAST)
• DevOps Tooling: Jenkins, Git, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm
• IaC & Automation: Terraform

Operating in the education sector, 21PSTEM is a Privately-Held organization employing approximately 50 employees.

• Modernized a Ruby on Rails school management system serving 10k+ users. Upgraded Rails 3.2 → 4.0 in 4 months.
• Built Selenium automation tests with 100% coverage.

• Frontend: React, JavaScript Backend: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Testing: Selenium, Databases: MongoDB, Tools & Frameworks: MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js)

18 weeks learning and practicing MERN Stack web development

Operating in the financial service sector, JPMorgan Chase is a publicly held organization employing over 290,000 employees worldwide.

• Worked directly with financial data and information, creating meaningful analysis, reports, and presentations in the payment research department.
• Types of analysis and reporting include: quality reviews, workflow analysis, process improvement, budget management, performance and risk reporting.

• Led initiatives to automate manual processes of Treasury Note Auction orders, resulting in a 90% reduction in processing time and 99% decrease in errors.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify areas for automation and developed detailed business requirements.

BNY Mellon operates in the financial services and investment management sector. It is a publicly held organization with approximately 50,000 employees worldwide.

• Provide support for the automation of NAV calculation applications.
• Provide support to migration from IDC platform to Eagle Investment Systems application which offers a multi-currency, multi-basis solution that enables a consolidated view of BNY’s global accounting books.

• Automated extraction of prices from pricing terminals which Increased price accuracy by 100% resulting in perfect NAV calculation.
• Successfully automated the onboarding process for new mutual funds valued at over $2 billion, leading to increased revenue and improved operational efficiency.
• Assisted in the analysis of existing workflows and identified opportunities for automation.

AHP Settlement Trust was a private entity established to manage and distribute settlement funds for large-scale pharmaceutical litigation.

• Provided technical support and issue resolution for internal staff processing complex Fen-Phen settlement claims, ensuring high system uptime and operational efficiency.