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Samuel Powell

@samuelpowell

Principal Cloud Architect at BetterUp who cut post-deployment vulnerabilities 38% with security-gated CI/CD.

At BetterUp, I redesigned CI/CD pipelines with automated security scanning gates, cutting post-deployment vulnerabilities 38%. I also introduced software composition analysis, container image scanning, and SBOM generation into release promotion.

I architected a multi-account AWS security baseline with Security Hub and GuardDuty, reducing mean time to remediate critical findings 46%. I also standardized deployment manifests across 14 microservices on Amazon EKS.

Earlier, at NeoGenomics Laboratories, I designed AWS CI/CD pipelines for genomics data platforms and migrated legacy deployments to Amazon ECS. At Greenway Health, I developed Python automation for AWS provisioning and supported Jenkins pipelines for core EHR platform services.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Principal Cloud Architect

BetterUp

Dec 2022 - Jul 2026 (3 years 7 months)

Led CI/CD pipeline redesign with automated security scanning, reducing post-deploy vulnerabilities by 38%. Architected multi-account AWS security baseline and directed container orchestration on Amazon EKS.

AWS Security Hub GuardDuty Terraform CloudFormation Python NodeJS Docker Kubernetes Helm Amazon EKS Jenkins GitHub Actions Gitlab CI SBOMs SCA SAST DAST Cloudwatch OpenTelemetry IAM DevSecOps

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

NeoGenomics Laboratories

Apr 2020 - Nov 2022 (2 years 7 months)

Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for genomics data platforms on AWS, supporting releases across 6 engineering teams. Built Python-based automation for infrastructure provisioning and compliance checks.

AWS CI CD Python AWS ECS Docker Security scanning HIPAA Compliance Cost Optimization

Cloud Engineer

Greenway Health

Jan 2017 - Mar 2020 (3 years 2 months)

Developed automation scripts in Python to streamline AWS provisioning and configuration management. Supported CI/CD pipeline buildout using Jenkins and contributed to security hardening efforts.

Python AWS Jenkins CI CD IAM Security Monitoring Alerting