
20+ Years building scalable resilient secure platforms. Systems/Infrastructure Skills: 18 Years using AWS, Cloud Computing Architecture, Data Center Bare Metal Colocation Management, Linux Systems Administration, Network Engineering, MySQL and NoSQL Database Administration, Container Orchestration, Serverless (FaaS), MQTT Systems DevOps: CI/CD, Kubernetes, GitOps, GitFlow, Test Driven Development, Configuration Management, CFEngine, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, Travis CI, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Serverless Framework, ELK Stack Software: Python, Ruby, Node.js, BASH Security: U.S. DoD 8140/8570.01-M (IAT Level II and IAM Level I) Compliant, Security Controls Implementation, SOC 2 Type II Compliance, Security Policy Creation, Security Liaison Internal and External Facing, Security and Risk Management Program Creation, Intrusion Detection, Firewalls, Encryption, AAA, Data Loss Prevention, Network Packet Analysis, SEIM AI/ML: Machine Learning specifically SVM and RNN. Generative AI leveraging Amazon Bedrock, RAG, LangChain, FAISS, Titan Embeddings, Anthropic Claude 3, Mistral, Stable Diffusion. (Much like Polyglot programming I believe the right language or technology for the right situation, I am a proponent for the ethical responsible use of AI where it makes sense, not just everywhere.) Former Advisory Board Member of: nuu:bit, Inc. Mars Reel Inc. Blog: http://www.philchen.com GitHub: https://github.com/nethacker
forcepoint.com
att.com
gopro.com
amazon.com
San Diego Metropolitan Area
Sr. DevOps Architect
Tiled
• www.linkedin.com/company/tiled
Sep 2019 - Present
Greater San Diego Area
Information Security Manager
Tiled
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Sep 2020 - Present
San Diego, California, United States
Sr. Security Engineer
Tiled
• www.linkedin.com/company/tiled
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
San Diego, California, United States
Advisory Board Member
Qpoint
• www.linkedin.com/company/qpoint-io
Jul 2024 - Present
San Francisco, California, United States
Sr. Cloud Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• www.linkedin.com/company/amazon-web-services
Nov 2016 - Jul 2018
Greater Seattle Area
CTO, Co-Founder
Wrapify
• www.linkedin.com/company/wrapify
May 2015 - Nov 2016
Greater San Diego Area
DevOps Architect
GoPro
• www.linkedin.com/company/gopro_3
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
Greater San Diego Area
Director of Systems Engineering, Principal Systems Architect
VMIX Media
Jan 2009 - Dec 2014
Greater San Diego Area
Sr. Linux Systems Administrator
VMIX Media
Jan 2007 - Dec 2009
Greater San Diego Area
Director of Systems & Networks
SIPphone Inc (aka Gizmo5)
Jan 2003 - Dec 2004
Greater San Diego Area
Sr. Systems QA Engineer
BlueMountain.com
Jan 2000 - Dec 2002
Greater San Diego Area
Sr. Analyst
CERFnet
Jan 1999 - Dec 2000
Greater San Diego Area