Cloud Architect & Infrastructure Leader

Nicholas Rasmussen

Designing multi-cloud environments that scale, secure, and stay out of the way.

18+ years of progressive IT and infrastructure experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP — from bare-metal storage to greenfield landing zones and production Kubernetes.

Nicholas Rasmussen
Working across
AWS Azure Google Cloud Terraform Kubernetes VMware HPE
01 — CAPABILITIES

Where I focus.

Six areas where I've shipped production systems — not just certifications, but running environments with real users, real budgets, and real 3am pages.

01

Cloud platforms

Multi-cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP — landing zones, account/subscription hierarchies, network topology, and managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) running production workloads.

02

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform-first, module-driven, with Pulumi and Kustomize where they fit. Everything reproducible; nothing clicked into a console. GitOps-style promotion across environments.

03

CI/CD & DevOps

GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and GitLab CI pipelines for building, testing, and deploying both infrastructure and applications. Docker and Helm for portable runtime.

04

Identity & security

Entra ID, Okta, and Azure Policy for governance. Least-privilege RBAC, secret management via Key Vault, and conditional access rolled out to workforces that had to keep working through the change.

05

Data-center infrastructure

Thousands of VMs across VMware vCenter and Hyper-V/SCVMM. HPE Synergy composable infrastructure, Nimble SAN, Commvault backup — the layer under the cloud that still runs the business.

06

Networking & data

BGP peering, site-to-site VPN, DNS/DHCP, VLAN segmentation. MSSQL and PostgreSQL administration — including the migrations, the AGs, and the awkward point-in-time restores.

02 — SELECTED WORK

Recent projects.

A few things I've built recently — infrastructure I've shipped for real, plus what's in flight.

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Static Website Infrastructure

This site itself — built with S3, CloudFront, and Route 53, fully automated with Terraform modules. OAC-secured origins, HTTPS everywhere, CloudFront Functions for clean URL rewriting.

Terraform S3 CloudFront Route 53 ACM
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Online Resume

A pixel-perfect HTML/CSS resume hosted on its own subdomain, delivered via CloudFront with automatic HTTPS. Zero-server architecture; the whole thing is static assets and DNS.

HTML/CSS S3 CloudFront
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More coming soon

Additional AWS projects and infrastructure demos in the works — serverless APIs, container workloads on ECS/EKS, and end-to-end CI/CD pipelines.

Lambda ECS GitHub Actions
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