Tanner Badalato
Las Vegas
Summary
Engineering Manager with 7+ years building and scaling multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and GitHub Enterprise. Led an awesome team of 3–6 engineers to scale cloud environments from <$1K/month to 8-figure annual spend. Strong focus on automation, cloud enablement, DevOps, cloud networking, and platform engineering to enable growth.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Cloud Engineering Manager - CCoE
IGT
Las Vegas
12.2019 - Current
- Promoted from intern to engineering manager, building cloud platform from the ground up to support scalable operations
- Led a 3–6 engineer team with an automation-first mindset
- Grew cloud investment to 8-figure annual spend, driving strategic resource allocation and capacity expansion
- Scaled from a few accounts to hundreds across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Standardized infrastructure using IaC and CI/CD pipelines
- Built automated Account Vending Factory integrated with IT systems
- Implemented federated SSO, IAM/RBAC, tagging, and governance guardrails
- Established logging, CSPM security, and compliance frameworks
- Created FinOps function, achieving annual savings of 7 figures through cost optimization and financial governance
- Partnered on hub-and-spoke networking, NAT egress, and VPC endpoint architectures
- Coordinated contractors, architects, and other project team members to deliver projects within specified timeframes.
- Led cloud integrations for M&A and enterprise expansion
Education
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
Utah State University
Logan, Utah12-2019
Skills
- Azure, AWS, GCP, GitHub Admin
- Terraform/CDK (IaC)
- DevOps CI/CD (Cloud Native GitHub Actions)
- Manage Enterprise RBAC/IAM
- Manage AWS Control Tower and AWS Organizations
- VPC Design - Hub-and-Spoke
- NAT Private Networking
- Centralized VPC Endpoints
- Implement Security & Compliance
- FinOps Strategy and Automation
- Engineering Management
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Grit Bureaucracy Agility
- Strategic tenacity & Operational resilience
Accomplishments
Inventor on 50+ patent submissions, with multiple advancing to filed IP and generating six-figure payouts (2025)
Certification
AWS Solution Architect Associate
Timeline
Cloud Engineering Manager - CCoE
IGT
12.2019 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
Utah State University