Building bullet-proof DevOps & FinOps pipelines that slash cloud costs.
Hey, I’m Scott Flaherty—an MBA-backed Senior DevOps Engineer at UISG in Chicago and the elected Mayor of Bertram, IA. I architect secure, automated, cost-efficient cloud platforms and mentor engineers in modern DevOps practices. Over the past decade I’ve driven cross-functional initiatives in healthcare, finance, and public-sector workloads, cutting spend, boosting deployment velocity, and hardening reliability.
Fast facts & recent wins
- Decreased AWS spend by weaving FinOps guard-rails into CI/CD.
- 200 + micro-services migrated to EKS with zero Sev-1 incidents.
- 12-person SRE org steered through IBM layoffs while holding 99.9 % SLOs.
- Author of Managing Failures, a blog on leadership missteps.
Core toolkit
Cloud & IaC ➜ AWS (EC2, Lambda, EventBridge, Route 53, CloudWatch, IAM) · GCP · Terraform / Terragrunt · CloudFormation · Karpenter
Containers ➜ Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Helm, Argo CD, Istio
CI/CD ➜ Jenkins · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · AWS CodePipeline · Step Functions
Observability ➜ Prometheus · Grafana · Alertmanager · Datadog · Lacework · CloudWatch Logs
Security & FinOps ➜ Vault · AWS Secrets Manager · Tenable Terrascan · CloudZero · Infracost
Languages & Collab ➜ Python · Bash · Jira · Confluence · PagerDuty · Slack integrations
Beyond tech
Off the clock I’m chasing my 17-month-old son and recharging through street & landscape photography.
Let’s collaborate
Wrestling with a thorny cloud problem? Reach out → or connect on LinkedIn.
