ALEKS KORN

• Founded and scaled CourseMatix, a next-generation CS education platform adopted at Spokane Community College, improving student engagement and outcomes.
• Developed the #TeachAnything and #GradeAnything frameworks, enabling instructors to teach and auto-grade a wide range of CS topics.
• Led cloud architecture, data analytics pipelines, security models, and LMS LTI integrations.
• Launched real-time analytics for personalized content delivery based on engagement and skills data.
• Established a content optimization loop, ensuring alignment with industry trends.

As both CEO and Lead Architect, I was directly responsible for securing the business, and delivering successful outcomes across all projects.

Key Clients & Engagements

• Fidelity - Designed and launched Payments as a Service (PaaS2) on Azure Cloud, enabling scalable SaaS payment processing while addressing data sovereignty, and concentration risks.
• First American - Led the enterprise DevOps transformation and microservices platform development.
• Navy Federal Credit Union - Designed secure infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• USGS - Migrated mission-critical environmental monitoring systems to a cloud-native architecture.
• PwC - Delivered automated compliance frameworks and accelerated DevOps adoption.
• Maxar - Engineered Kubernetes orchestration for large-scale geospatial data services.
• NTT Data - Developed backend infrastructure and mobile app platform for the IndyCar Series, automating multi-cloud deployments.
• World Wide Group - Migrated core real estate platforms from datacenter to Azure Cloud.
• Amway - Developed a microservices strategy and executed phased modernization.
• Booj - Built cloud-native CI/CD workflows and enabled DevOps best practices.
• Lexmark - Designed hybrid cloud architecture and led containerization initiatives.
• Optiv - Delivered secure cloud automation and enterprise-grade DevSecOps pipelines.
• 1848 - Designed and delivered a Service Catalog and Business Process Automation platform.
• Lloyd's Register - Led due diligence and cloud migration for the C-Map Commercial acquisition.
• Navico - Supported M&A technical assessments and transition planning.
• C-Map - Managed post-acquisition cloud migration and platform integration into Lloyd’s Register.
• UPS - Advised on enterprise integration strategy, connecting UPS with external partners.
• BidPro - Designed and delivered a cloud-native platform with full automation and UPS system integration.

• Engaged customers throughout sales cycle, gathering technical requirements for successful implementation.
• Collaborated with Fugue sales and product teams to design optimal customer solutions.
• Delivered Fugue solutions to new customers, managing technical engagements through entire delivery process.
• Led technical presentations, webinars, and discussions on features, benefits, and interoperability.
• Traveled to interface with customers, establishing relationships across all organizational levels.
• Documented best practices for Fugue solution delivery to ensure consistent quality.

• Accelerated consumption in high-potential customer accounts by providing deep technical expertise
• Recommended architectural improvements, design solutions, and integration solutions
• Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new functional designs and suggested options for performance improvement
• Helped partners develop their Cloud practices on Azure Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and confirm requirements

• Led the deployment of projects, the creation of IP, and the training of sellers and partners in AWS, MS Azure, and GCP.
• Designed and implemented complex application workloads and data migration to AWS and MS Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS stacks.
• Led complex IT separations and migrations across multiple lines of business, including Cloud, Mobility, and Security.
• Provided consulting, selling, and delivery services for large projects covering envisioning, effort estimation, cost, pricing, margin analysis, proposal development, and successful delivery.
• Developed proof-of-concept products using the IoT suite, Big Data Analytics, Hadoop, Machine Learning, Bing, Google Maps, and Power BI on the MS Azure and AWS cloud platforms.
• Established deep relationships with key technical resources and executives within the customer portfolio and partners' network.
• Trained and mentored the cloud delivery team.

• Redesigned the Amazon AWS environment for the Marine Division to improve security and availability, eliminated single points of failure, and enhanced maintainability via simplification
• Created and maintained a highly fault-tolerant infrastructure on AWS for various applications
• Designed, built, and implemented a systems monitoring solution (Nagios and AWS CloudWatch) for the entire Jeppesen Marine Division
• Designed and built a highly available and highly scalable distribution data center in the cloud, which replaced the legacy datacenter
• Led and mentored the Cloud Engineers team during top projects
• Planned and designed the migration of multiple applications to AWS

Responsibilities:

• Deploy, maintain, troubleshoot, and tune multi-tier, distributed, cloud-based application components
• Develop, modify, support, and maintain AWS-based components for public-facing infrastructure and application back-end
• Deploy, configure, manage, and administer instances in the AWS cloud. Install and configure web/application servers (IIS, Nginx, Apache, NodeJS)
• Provide operational and systems engineering support for web applications
• Design infrastructure and system architecture for production and development environments
• Architecting hybrid AWS and on-premises solutions based on customer requirements
• Generating AWS migration roadmaps
• Deploy tools to monitor application performance and stability
• Continuously extend and improve cloud infrastructure components to handle growth, and fix system failures and performance issues or bottlenecks
• Responsible for maximum utilization of AWS components
• Responsible for Cloud Architecture in the entire Marine Division

• Cost-effective managed backup services
• Managed network services
• Managed security services
• Software development