From Fighter Pilot to Cloud Professional
Bringing mission-focused precision, leadership, and systems thinking from the cockpit to the cloud.
Meet Andrew Mudge
I’m a U.S. Marine Corps F-35B pilot with 12 years of active duty service and over 800 flight hours, including combat operations. My career in aviation demanded precision, high-stakes decision-making, and systems-level thinking, skills I now apply to cloud architecture and infrastructure design.
Skills: AWS | Terraform | Python | Linux | DevOps | Cloud Security
mudge.andrew@gmail.com
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- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (in progress)
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty (in progress)
- Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate - Feb 2025
🏫 Education
- Bachelors of Science - Mechanical Engineering
- San Diego State University, 2014
🛠️ Featured Projects
Scalable Serverless Web App
Built an event booking system using fully serverless architecture with real-time email notifications and CI/CD pipelines.
Tech: Next.js, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, SES, Cognito
Multi-Tier Web App in a VPC
Deployed a 3-tier Flask app using EC2, RDS, and ALB with secure private networking and a bastion host setup.
Tech: EC2, ALB, RDS, VPC, S3, CloudWatch
CI/CD Pipeline with IaC
Created a fully automated pipeline using CodePipeline and Terraform with blue/green deployments and secure secrets management.
Tech: CodePipeline, Terraform, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
Real-Time Cloud Security Dashboard
Monitors AWS account for anomalies using GuardDuty and CloudTrail, visualized in a custom frontend with alerting.
Tech: GuardDuty, EventBridge, Lambda, DynamoDB, Next.js
Global Content Delivery System
Delivered globally available website using CloudFront with S3 origin and Route 53 failover across AWS regions.
Tech: CloudFront, S3, Route 53, Lambda, Terraform