Experienced end to end Solutions Architect.

I am an experienced professional with over 17 years experience in IT. My experience across various roles that have encompassed solutions architecture, technical design, application architecture, and development across mobile and enterprise applications. I am a hands-on individual, proficient in architecture, design and implementation using a variety of languages and tools.

I am the author of several books including:
• Amazon Web Services for Mobile Developers, Sybex (November 2017)
• iOS Code Testing, Apress (August 2017).
• Swift – 24-Hour Trainer, Wrox Press (December 2015)
• Professional iOS Development, Wrox Press (March 2014)
• iPhone & iPad App 24-Hour Trainer, Wrox Press (March 2012)

Specialties:

Cloud Technologies, XaaS, Containerization
====
o AWS deployment & administration (EC2, ECS, ELB, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, Elastic Beanstalk, VPC, Route53, CloudHSM, CloudWatch, CloudFormation)
o AWS Identity and Access Management, Cognito, Web Identity Federation (Google, Facebook).
o Serverless architectures on AWS using Amazon API Gateway, and AWS Lambda.
o Red Hat OpenShift V2, V3.
o Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk, AppDynamics.
o WSO2 Cloud Identity and Access Management.

RESTful API's and Microservices
====
o API security with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT
o Java microservices.
o MuleSoft AnyPoint platform, MuleSoft ESB.
o Mockable.io (RAML mocking).

Information Security
====
o SEI CERT secure coding guidelines. 
o OWASP TOP 10 application security vulnerabilities.
o CIA (Availability, Integrity, Confidentiality) triad for information security.
o Cryptographic algorithms (AES, 3DES, PGP, PKC, RSA), hash functions (MD5, SHA), 
o Centralized Authentication and Single Sign On (SSO).
o Kerberos, HTTP Mutual Auth, TLS, SSL Pinning.
o Hardware Security Modules (HSM) and Amazon CloudHSM.
o Oracle Advanced Security (TDE, Oracle Wallet, Diffie Helman).

Architectural Frameworks & Tools
====
o TOGAF and EA3 .
o Archimate.