AWACS.AI architects AI-powered cloud systems for enterprises that can't afford downtime. 20+ years from mission-critical 911 dispatch to global AI automation and productized consulting services.
"I think in architecture. Build with Atomic Legos, test each piece, and stack to a production solution."
Fixed-scope engagements with transparent pricing. No discovery phase that never ends.
AI-assisted CIS Azure Foundations Benchmark v5.0 auditing. 79+ controls evaluated against your live environment with evidence-backed findings and step-by-step remediation.
Right-sized cloud cost governance for $5K-$50K/month Azure environments. Budget alerting with trajectory and velocity detection, deployed as IaC into your environment. You own it.
Focused expertise where AI, automation, and enterprise infrastructure intersect.
Design and build AI-powered observability platforms, intelligent workflow automation, and LLM-integrated systems on Azure. From concept through production deployment.
Terraform and Bicep platforms with policy enforcement, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment wizards. Infrastructure that deploys itself correctly, every time.
Enterprise backup architecture, compliance-ready monitoring, and AI-powered failure analysis. Built on 15+ years of protecting mission-critical data at scale.
Production systems, original IP, and enterprise solutions, each built to solve a real problem.
Solved 100+ daily inactionable alerts with an AI-powered observability platform monitoring 3,000+ weekly backup jobs across 5 global sites. Intelligent business logic escalates only recurring failures to owners. Integrates with ServiceNow for automated ticket generation ensuring SOC2 and Dekra audit compliance.
Architected to accelerate internal Terraform adoption. Deploys 6 validated Azure Verified Modules across Dev, Staging, and Production. Nightly drift detection via GitHub Actions. OPA/Rego policy enforcement at plan-time ensures every deployment meets security and cost standards before it reaches Azure.
Independently developed naming convention solving Azure's conflicting resource constraints through mathematics, not lookup tables. Works across MSPs, enterprise, and SMBs at any scale.
Leading technical design of AI systems for federal GOVCON and regulated environments. Secure, auditable platforms with SAM.GOV integration, zero-fabrication architecture, and human-in-the-loop validation aligned with federal risk management and acquisition requirements.
Full-stack proof-of-concept with 7-stage pipeline: ERP ingestion, AI-powered supplier inference, financial impact calculations, and executive dashboards with Plotly network visualizations.
Build testable, stackable components. Write a module for each step. Validate each one independently. When all pieces work, consolidate into production-grade modules. Ship fast without shipping broken.
I architect what gets built. AI helps implement it. This isn't prompt engineering; it's knowing what to build, how it connects, and where it breaks. The architecture is the hard part. Code is implementation detail.
Budget limitations, vendor restrictions, compliance requirements. I turn every constraint into an architectural advantage. The Azure Automation Platform exists because Ansible Tower was too expensive. The result was better.
Every solution I architect draws from hands-on experience building, breaking, and fixing real production systems.
Lessons from building real systems: not theory, not hype.
Infrastructure engineers don't need to become developers to leverage AI. The value is in knowing what to build and how systems connect. AI handles the implementation detail. Presented to 200+ attendees at Align Technology.
When storage tiers aren't aligned to actual access patterns, you pay a hidden tax on every byte. A deep-dive into backup storage economics and how tier misalignment silently bleeds budget at enterprise scale.
AI has all the knowledge but none of the context. Like raising a gifted kid: the intelligence is there, but wisdom, judgment, and guardrails come from the architect. That's the human role in AI-augmented development.
Let's start with a conversation about your infrastructure challenges. No pitch decks, no pressure, just a direct discussion about what's possible.