I’m Trent, a senior technical architect based in New York City. I lead a team building and hardening AWS infrastructure for federal, regulated environments, with a focus on Terraform, SSM automation, and Landing Zone Accelerator. Before that, I was a violinist and violist who performed in cities across the world, including as a soloist on the main stage at Carnegie Hall.
Exploring how orchestral score reading, ensemble balance, rehearsal mechanics, and live execution translate directly into Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and observability.
A high-level look at deploying AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) to establish multi-account governance, automated security baselines, and scalable networking in regulated environments.
Smoothstack told the story of how I went from music gigs to cloud technology.
A brief history of where I've been and how I got here
