Cloud governance,
architecture & AI.
I specialize in cloud governance and compliance, cost-effective scalable and resilient cloud architectures, platform engineering, data and AI/ML pipelines, and operational automation.
10+ AWS Certifications · Enterprise-scale experience · Industries from healthcare to banking
Industry experience across
Core expertise
Delivering measurable outcomes across the full cloud lifecycle — from architecture to compliance to automation.
Governance & Compliance
Extensive experience auditing and implementing controls for HIPAA, GDPR, GxP, NIST, PCI-DSS, and SOC2. Control Tower implementations, account partitioning across OUs, and on-prem to AWS migrations.
Cloud Architecture & Cost Optimization
Leader in CloudOps automation with high-ROI automation solutions. Expert DevOps with CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and Terraform. Experience managing monthly budgets from $20K to $300K.
AI/ML & Data Pipelines
Innovative AI-first approach with hands-on experience in Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, LangChain, and prompt engineering. Proven data pipeline design for ingestion, transformation, and curation with strong governance.
Technical Skills
AWS Services
Data & AI/ML
DevOps & IaC
Languages
About Charles Sieg
Senior cloud architect and consultant with deep expertise across the full AWS ecosystem. I help organizations build compliant, cost-effective, and resilient cloud infrastructure — from governance frameworks to AI/ML pipelines.
Extensive experience auditing and implementing controls for HIPAA, GDPR, GxP, NIST, PCI-DSS, and SOC2 compliance.
Experienced with Control Tower implementations, account and workload partitioning across OUs, and migration of on-prem resources to the AWS Cloud.
Leader in CloudOps automation with direct experience building original, high-ROI automation solutions.
Strong programming skills in Python, JavaScript, Golang, C#, and Swift building both web and native client applications and persistent and serverless web services.
Expert in DevOps automation using CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline. Proven expertise building and deploying infrastructure with Terraform. Advocate for containerization.
Enabling data science and machine learning by leading engineers in leveraging tools in the AWS services portfolio.
Robust knowledge and experience creating data pipelines for automating ingestion, transformation, and curation of structured and unstructured data with an emphasis on data governance and security. Automated model training and evaluation.
Innovative AI-first approach with hands-on coding experience with Generative AI and prompt engineering for orchestrating various LLMs.
Solid technical leadership skills and experience collaborating with executive management, product owners, data scientists, and engineers.
Dependable team management following Agile with Scrum. Skilled in project scoping, estimation, and technical interviewing.
Focused on infrastructure cost savings with experience working with monthly budgets from $20K to $300K.
Wide-ranging industry experience including energy, health care, banking, insurance, financial services, auto manufacturing, airlines, retail, and education.
Recent engagements
A selection of high-impact projects delivered since 2020.
Legal Bill Compliance Automation
A 6-person legal team manually spot-checked only 5% of incoming legal bills. Configured Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet in AWS Bedrock with Lambda functions, Textract, and Step Functions to automatically review 100% of bills in real-time — freeing legal capacity and delivering immediate cost savings.
- 100% bill review coverage
- Real-time compliance detection
- Zero false positives in model evaluation
AWS Resource Inventory & Auto-Remediation
Client required daily compliance inventory across all accounts and regions with automatic remediation of noncompliant resources. Built a Python/Step Functions application with parallel scanning across accounts — covering VPC flow logs, EC2 tagging, S3 encryption, and AWS Backup in under 1 hour nightly.
- All accounts & regions scanned nightly
- Automatic remediation of violations
- Comprehensive reports sent to management
Multi-Phase MAP Assessment & Migration
AWS requested a Migration Acceleration Program assessment for an existing restaurant PoS customer. Led a 6-phase modernization: Control Tower landing zone, WebSocket migration, DynamoDB global tables replacing Aurora Postgres, and multi-region active-active infrastructure — all at lower monthly cost than the original AWS bill.
- 6-phase migration completed
- Multi-region high availability
- Cost reduced below original AWS bill
Certifications
Proven skills and experience across AWS, Microsoft, and HashiCorp.
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft & HashiCorp
Let's work together.
Whether you need cloud architecture, compliance automation, or AI/ML pipelines — I'm ready to help your team move faster and smarter.
charles.sieg@vantalect.com