Wesley Evans

Tech Lead responsible for platform architecture, governance, and compliance across GCP and Azure, partnering with Cloud Platform Security, Risk, Cyber, and Wiz.

• ▹Led the technical evaluation and migration strategy for a Kubernetes CNI migration from Cilium to AWS VPC CNI, eliminating critical security visibility gaps across ~295 EKS clusters and licensing costs.
• ▹Architected and deployed a multi-VPC GPU benchmarking platform in GCP, engineering network topologies including RoCE RDMA (B200) and GPUDirect TCPx (H100) with private GKE and Managed Lustre storage.
• ▹Engineered enterprise Azure platform architecture to evaluate Azure Arc; architected hybrid cross-cloud routing from AWS Direct Connect to Azure ExpressRoute and deployed Azure Private DNS Resolvers.
• ▹Led the multi-cloud security integration for the Brex enterprise acquisition across AWS, Azure, and GCP, architecting runtime defenses for autonomous generative AI agents and resolving critical infrastructure visibility gaps.
• ▹Architected a standardized Cloud Control Development Process and orchestrated the migration of 100% of GCP and 89% of Azure policies to the enterprise compliance monitoring platform, sustaining a 99%+ compliance rate.
• ▹AI-Assisted Engineering Adoption: Piloted agentic developer tooling, incorporating Claude Code and Cursor automations to streamline multi-step code refactoring, enforce architectural rules, and accelerate pipeline delivery cycles.

Led feature development for an internal DevOps platform enabling shifted-left DevOps competencies for 500+ applications used by 400+ developers across 13 lines of business.

• ▹Incorporated event-driven architecture using AWS SQS and Lambda to decouple application components, improving resiliency.
• ▹Modernized legacy orchestration by successfully refactoring control automation modules from Jenkins to AWS Batch to improve resiliency and observability.
• ▹Performed lift-and-shift cross-account application migration, collaborating with security teams on networking and authentication.
• ▹Managed a team of engineers, incorporating project management, coaching, and delegation to deliver platform improvements.

• ▹Appointed as Atlanta Market Lead for Enterprise Employee Resource Group; authored regional strategy and managed cross-functional leadership teams to execute high-impact executive and networking events.
• ▹Organizational Culture & Communications Champion: Partnered with executive leadership (EVP level) to define actionable initiatives advancing engineering culture and published targeted enterprise communications.
• ▹Certified Behavioral Interviewer & Engineering Mentor: Assessed candidates and trained future interviewers to uphold technical and cultural hiring bars; mentored associate engineers on high-visibility delivery tracks.

• ▹Collaborated with enterprise clients in developing strategy for diverse cloud migration needs, leveraging rehosting, replatforming, and rearchitecting strategies on AWS.
• ▹Enhanced client DevOps capabilities through the creation of patterns, processes, and automation leveraging Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, and GitHub Actions.
• ▹Provided training and advisement in cloud architecture with emphasis on security and networking.
• ▹Architected and implemented resource tagging patterns to assist clients in cataloging cloud resources.

• ▹Provided insight and guidance to enable modernization and consolidation of the identity strategy of over 100 applications, used by millions of students.
• ▹Architected authentication patterns using AWS Lambda and AWS ALB.
• ▹Architected and implemented event-driven architecture solutions in Microsoft Azure to support healthcare client streaming data requirements.
• ▹Identified client gaps and opportunities; created a structured proposal and implementation plan to enhance client cloud DevOps competencies.

• ▹Architected and implemented solutions that established and enhanced DevOps competencies to improve quality, agility, and resiliency.
• ▹Developed configuration management strategies, automated application code quality scans, and infrastructure monitoring processes.
• ▹Designed patterns for containerizing Java Spring Boot applications using Docker to facilitate migration to AWS.

• ▹Acted as Lead Developer for Agile Scrum teams, evaluating scope, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• ▹Led development of SMS integration into insurance software using .NET, Twilio, and RESTful APIs.

• ▹Spearheaded team projects during product release including integration with RESTful APIs and data archival for performance and regulatory requirements.
• ▹Mentored junior developers and anchored development teams primarily leveraging .NET and SQL.