I build Terraform-based cloud systems, I'm kind of a dad, and genuinely enjoy building web apps for clients.
I'm a cloud engineer who believes good infrastructure should feel invisible. By day, I build Terraform-managed systems and CI/CD pipelines for enterprise teams, with an AI assist where it earns its keep. By choice, I build web applications for clients, one careful decision at a time.
Outside of work: slow mornings, trail running, and a Raspberry Pi cluster I tend to more than is strictly reasonable.
19 yrs in infrastructure
40+ systems migrated
99.98% avg uptime
Six areas I work in every week, not just on a resume.
AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, provisioned and versioned with Terraform and Pulumi.
AI-assisted IaC review and runbooks that shrink enterprise tasks down to an afternoon.
GitHub Actions and GitLab CI pipelines built around calm, predictable releases.
Docker and Kubernetes, shipped through the same steady pipelines.
Vue 3, React, and Node.js, building client-facing applications end to end.
Hardening, IAM, Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack.
Enterprise infrastructure is the day job. Building web applications for clients, start to finish, is what I'd do even if nobody asked. Same steady process, just a different kind of ship day.
Oct 2020–Present
Boston, Massachusetts
Mar 2017–Sep 2020
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Feb 2012–Feb 2017
Windows/Linux and network administration, workgroup-to-domain migration. Managed FTP servers, AD/DNS/DHCP, website configuration, and disaster recovery. Oversaw hosting provider costs while analyzing and implementing savings.
Jan 2009–Feb 2012
Oversaw and managed information systems in a mixed OS environment. Managed access for developers and users. Built and maintained development servers for programming specialists.
Aug 2007–Dec 2008
First-tier phone contact for technical support. Assistant systems administrator.
Nov 2006–Aug 2007
Direct phone contact for first-tier technical support for all clients. Escalated issues requiring on-site attention. Assisted the engineering team when needed.
Meridian Health Systems
Moved a decade of on-prem patient infrastructure to AWS in six months, entirely as version-controlled Terraform, ahead of a HIPAA audit, with zero data loss and 40 percent less downtime.
Enterprise client, financial services
Paired existing runbooks with an AI-assisted triage layer, cutting time-to-remediation on routine incidents.
Independent client, e-commerce
Designed, built, and deployed a Vue storefront through a CI/CD pipeline that now ships updates same-day.
Tell me what you're running, building, or worrying about. I usually reply within a day.
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Craig Diehl