Alex Neihaus

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Alex Neihaus is an AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure architect, cloud solutions architect and consultant. Mr. Neihaus has extensive technical skills and has designed and delivered multiple successful public cloud deployments for large enterprises. He has planned multi-cloud architecture designs and delivered hands-on implementations across a broad range of cloud technologies involving application development, network, security, database and storage systems. Mr. Neihaus is skilled at designing and building infrastructure for and migrating complex enterprise applications to the AWS and Azure public clouds using modern DevOps processes and tools. With more than 30 years of IT experience, he specializes in migration of production systems from on-premises and co-located data centers to all-in and hybrid cloud infrastructures.

In Azure, he has automated building of secure deployments via infrastructure-as-code that deploy complicated cloud applications, databases, and cloud networks. He specializes in architecting, deploying and securing Azure PaaS and IaaS resources and services, including Azure SQL database, Azure Data Factory, Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure virtual networking. In AWS, he has migrated Windows and Linux applications to EC2, VPCs and Route 53 utilizing AWS services including Lambda functions, RDS databases, EBS, S3 storage and advanced networking. He has secured cloud applications containing PHI and PII using AWS IAM and Azure Active Directory. Mr. Neihaus has developed cloud infrastructure for mission-critical enterprise workloads in the AWS and Azure clouds while improving performance and reducing costs using cloud automation tools including Azure LogicApps, Azure Functions and AWS Lambda. Mr. Neihaus is an expert in infrastructure-as-code using tools including AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), the Azure Bicep language and PowerShell, making the building of complex enterprise cloud environments simple, reliable and repeatable.

Mr. Neihaus has designed cloud reference architectures for clients to migrate the most complex systems and applications to Azure and AWS. He has assisted clients in implementing DevOps processes for agile team development workflows. Mr. Neihaus has extensive experience developing cloud architectures and migrations in the finance and banking, healthcare and public sectors.