Corey Rando

Cloud Solutions Architect / Developer

About Me

Corey Rando is a passionate Cloud Engineering and Software Development engineer. He has spent the past 15+ years architecting and deploying software and hardware solutions for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.

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Professional Skills

Data Architecture and Engineering

Cloud: AWS

Cloud: Azure

Containerization (Kubernetes)

Agile Methologies

Python

Work Experience

Senior Software / Cloud Architect at Booz Allen Hamilton, Syracuse, NY

Jun, 2024 - Present

Chief engineer of a multifaceted team encomposing cloud engineer, software developers information assurance engineers producing policies and devops capabilites for the enterprise. Operating 10+ commercial tools in Amazon Web Service enrioment with a user base of over 10k+. Spanning mutiple domains and mission areas.

Gitlab Docker Python Ansible Jenkins AWS S3 AWS RDS CI/CD AWS Boto3 Artifactory Jira/Confluence

Senior Solutions Architect at Air Force Research Labaratory, Rome, NY

Jun, 2014 - Jun, 2023

Chief engineer of a premeier DevSecOps platform and service provider for the DoD/AF. Architected a secure compliance system to ensure accounts on AWS adhere to DoD guidance. Saved thousands in projected costs coverting legacy code to serverless and web driven development

AWS EKS Docker Python AWS CDK AWS Dynamo DB AWS S3 AWS RDS AWS RDK AWS Boto3 AWS Cloudformation Gitlab / Github

Senior Solutions Architect at Booz Allen Hamilton, Rome, NY

Nov, 2011 - Jun, 2014

Worked to solve top level priorities for the DoD/IC community. Including secure hypervisor and secure mobile handhelds. Developed and advised ATAK on security posture, developing naitive support from Samsung and their Knox system

Kubernetes Docker Python Java Ansible Leadership Android Data-in-Transit protection Data-at-Rest protection

Software Developer at BAE Systems, Rome NY

Feb, 2008 - Nov, 2011

Designed and implemented multiple facets of a national geospatial ingest and federation system in Java and supporting libraries. Utilizing agile methologies and CI/CD pipelines to speed up ingest times well over 200% using event driven architecture.

Java Apache Bash / Unix SOA Architecture REST Agile Methologies Test driven development Jenkins

Software Developer Internship at Air Force Research Labaratory, Rome, NY

Aug, 2006 - Feb, 2008

Created botnet tracking and masking solution using Java. Tracked IP hits and locations based on GeoHash locations.

Hadoop Python Hive Ab Initio Informatica Teradata

Education

Masters of Computer Science from State University of New York Polytechnic Institute

Decemeber, 2010

Bachelors of Information Assurance from Syracuse University, Utica, NY

May, 2007

Contact

Email

corey.rando@gmail.com

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