I'm Cristiano Nilsen — in IT since 2005, infrastructure specialist and now Cloud Engineer / Architect focused on AWS. I turn critical environments into secure, automated platforms ready to scale. Also a former DJ, vinyl collector and home cook on off-hours.
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› ready to build what's next_
FOR RECRUITERS & TECHNOLOGY LEADERS
Available to join teams as an employee or contractor, bringing architectural vision, technical depth and experience in business-critical environments.
Architectures, challenges and technical decisions based on real experience building, evolving and operating enterprise cloud platforms.
Architecture, evolution and operation of an enterprise Kubernetes platform supporting SaaS workloads.
Centralized governance, federated identity and automation for an AWS multi-account environment.
A predictable, secure AWS network architecture designed for enterprise platform growth.
Automated, versioned WAF management integrated into the engineering workflow.
Preventive, detective and operational controls integrated with cloud engineering.
Balancing operational visibility, retention, granularity and cost in cloud platforms.
AI as an engineering accelerator, always validated through technical expertise.
More than two decades connecting networking, systems, security and operations. Since 2019, professional work primarily focused on AWS, automation, Kubernetes and modern platforms.
Architecture and evolution of an enterprise SaaS platform across complex AWS environments.
AWS WAF, IAM, GuardDuty, Inspector, Config and network controls integrated with architecture and operations.
Terraform, CI/CD, federated identity and versioned infrastructure for traceable change.
Grafana, Loki, Datadog, Instana and CloudWatch, with log pipelines using Data Firehose, S3 and Athena.
Independent projects and labs demonstrate how I apply AWS-grounded architecture principles to other providers and emerging engineering practices. This work is intentionally separated from professional experience.
View projects on GitHubArchitecture, networking, security and automation with Terraform and CI/CD practices.
Hands-on exploration of transferable foundations across EKS, AKS, GKE and OKE.
Exploring and building self-service infrastructure, golden paths and Developer Experience concepts by combining cloud, Kubernetes, IaC and CI/CD.
Monitoring, telemetry analysis, log pipelines and data-driven investigation.
A career built from infrastructure fundamentals to technical leadership across business-critical cloud platforms.
Architecture, implementation and evolution of cloud, infrastructure, networking, identity, security and digital presence.
Internal technical reference for AWS, connectivity, cloud security, observability and automation supporting a complex SaaS platform.
EDUCATION
EXPERTISE
For a professional opportunity, a focused project or a second technical perspective on your environment.