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
Family Reunion Web App
Created a secure, scalable AWS app for a personal Famiy Reunion using CDK to enable authentication, data storage, and notification. Optimized for growth, security and reliability
CDK, Cognito, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SES
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
EC2 Project Series
A five part project series that uses a building block approach to learn EC2 concepts. Progressing from manual deployment via CLI to IaC with Terraform and CDK.
Tech: EC2, VPC, ALB, ASG, Security Groups, Terraform, CDK