Jay-Alexander Elliot
Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area
Email: jay@elliotdevops.com
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jayalexanderelliot
GitHub: https://github.com/jaelliot

SUMMARY
Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with nine years of production experience building AWS infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and backend platforms for government, healthcare, and startup teams. Strong in Terraform, Docker, IAM, Python, TypeScript, and compliance-heavy delivery across FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPA contexts.

CORE STRENGTHS
- AWS platform delivery
- Terraform and repeatable multi-environment infrastructure
- CI/CD, Docker, IAM, and deployment automation
- Compliance-heavy systems: FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPA
- Backend delivery in Python and TypeScript

EXPERIENCE

State of Utah, Office of Data Privacy
Lead Software Engineer | 2024 - 2025
- Sole engineer on a FedRAMP-compliant AI and compliance platform.
- Built OCR ingestion, OpenSearch retrieval workflows, and a React frontend on Amplify with Cognito auth.
- Delivered privacy notice, record retention, and CAO registration workflows under GDPA requirements.
- Platform was featured at the 2025 Data Privacy & Governance Summit.

picoEdge
DevOps Engineer | 2021 - 2024
- Held primary ownership of AWS infrastructure across about 20 client environments.
- Authored Terraform patterns for roughly five environments per client using modular HCL and remote state.
- Implemented SOC 2 and FedRAMP controls across AWS and private-cloud systems.
- Built automation with Python, Ansible, Go, Lambda, and Docker-based CI/CD pipelines.

Parrot Health
Founding Engineer | 2020 - 2021
- Led application and infrastructure delivery for a behavioral health startup.
- Built the TypeScript application and AWS hosting infrastructure for a conversational mental health prototype.

TigoHealth
Founding Engineer | 2017 - 2020
- Built HIPAA-compliant AWS infrastructure and TypeScript application code for a Medicaid-focused platform.
- Supported delivery tied to a regional health system partnership serving 27,000 Medicaid members.

ROSALIND
Information Technology Infrastructure Specialist | 2016 - 2017
- Managed HIPAA-compliant hybrid infrastructure across a private datacenter and AWS.
- Built Datadog dashboards and alerting for on-premises and AWS workloads.

CERTIFICATIONS
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- ITIL 4 Foundation
- Six Sigma White Belt