Garrett Galloway

Denver, Colorado — infrastructure since 2017

Garrett Galloway

Hybrid Cloud Architect. DevOps Engineer. Site Reliability Engineer. Systems Engineer. Automation Engineer. Agentic AI Engineer. Development Lead. High Performance Computing Specialist. Founder.

Engineer at AWS./Founder of Agen2ic.

Clearance Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

  • $3.4M annual operating cost eliminated
  • 36,000 engineering hours returned
  • 85% service level agreement improvement
  • 1.405 PF petaFLOPS operated, 2,000+ servers, 8+ petabytes storage
  • 9 years continuous infrastructure practice, 2017–present
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Now

  • Day job

    Amazon Dedicated Cloud Engineer (ADC Engineer) at Amazon Web Services.

  • Practice

    Founder of Agen2ic, an agentic AI consulting practice.

  • Focus

    Building agentic AI capability for accredited and federal environments.

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Credentials

Clearance

Status
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Education & Languages

Schooling
BS Computer Engineering (partial, 2015–2019), Clemson University Minor: Psychology (complete)
Languages
Proficient Spanish, Basic Mandarin

Also true

The parts of a career that do not fit a job title.

  • 01

    Trained ML for the Ford CU-ICAR Deep Orange autonomous vehicle program

    2018

  • 02

    Founded and taught CI 585, a music course at Clemson

    Clemson University

  • 03

    Created and sold the Death Valley Entertainment brand

    Founded, built, exited

  • 04

    Cedar Point Capital analyst, Slush, Helsinki

    Slush — Helsinki

  • 05

    Entrepreneur in Residence at the Spiro Institute venture accelerator

    2018–2019

  • 06

    Award winner at Clemson’s Pitch Smackdown

    Clemson University

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Some of my work

  • Amazon Web Services

    2021 – present

    Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) Engineer — DevOps, SRE

    Automation across twelve AWS services in streaming, messaging and configuration — 36,000 engineering hours and $3.4M returned each year.

    Tooling built with the MAST development team, lifting service level agreements by 85%.

    Certified Amazon Associate Speaker; onboards and trains engineers on the services and internal tooling.

  • SLAXN

    2018 – 2021

    Co-founder, Hybrid Cloud Architect, Development Lead

    Hybrid cloud and bare-metal video-on-demand infrastructure, run at 96% lower operating cost.

    Led a six-person international team and a codebase touched by more than twenty developers.

    Kept streaming reliable through launch events, including a company appearing on ABC’s Shark Tank.

  • Clemson Advanced Computing Infrastructure

    2017 – 2020

    Senior Infrastructure & Operations Assistant, ACI Technician

    SC500 Palmetto Cluster operations: 1.405 petaFLOPS across more than 2,000 servers.

    Monitoring and automation over 8+ petabytes of storage.

    Rack and cabling design from CAT6 to 200Gb/s fibre, and trained the student technician team.

  • Agen2ic

    Current

    Founder

    Agentic AI systems engineering practice.

    Cleared agentic AI consulting: production reliability, cost governance, and federal authorization work.

    Practice and case work at agen2ic.ai.

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