Resume
Jay-Alexander Elliot
Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer focused on AWS platform delivery, Terraform, CI/CD, and compliance-heavy systems.
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 and infrastructure ownership
Terraform, CI/CD, Docker, IAM, and repeatable environments
Government, healthcare, and compliance-heavy systems
Backend delivery in Python and TypeScript
Selected Experience
State of Utah, Office of Data Privacy
Lead Software Engineer, 2024 - 2025
- Served as sole engineer on a FedRAMP-compliant AI and compliance platform.
- Built OCR ingestion, retrieval workflows with OpenSearch, and a React frontend on Amplify with Cognito auth.
- Platform was featured at the 2025 Data Privacy & Governance Summit.
picoEdge
DevOps Engineer, 2021 - 2024
- Held primary AWS ownership across about 20 client environments.
- Authored Terraform patterns for repeatable multi-environment delivery.
- Implemented SOC 2 and FedRAMP controls and maintained zero downtime across AWS and private-cloud systems.
Parrot Health and TigoHealth
Founding Engineer, 2017 - 2021
- Built healthcare systems on AWS in small founding teams with broad ownership.
- Delivered HIPAA-compliant application and infrastructure work for Medicaid and behavioral health use cases.
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- ITIL 4 Foundation
- Six Sigma White Belt