Tony Perkins

Hi, I'm Tony

I'm a platform, DevOps, and SRE engineer. I deploy and operate AI systems reliably in production — the infrastructure they run on, with the same reliability discipline you'd put behind any critical service.

That's a deliberate distinction. I'm not building AI features or training models; I'm the person who keeps agentic systems and LLM workloads running 24/7 — observable, cost-controlled, and dependable. Most of my two decades has been on AWS, with a homelab where I run the same patterns end to end: containerized services, full Grafana/Prometheus/Loki observability, and supply-chain security from build to signed artifact.

This site is where I keep the projects that show that work. Have a look around.

Work Experience
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  • Sep2024 - Present
    Zapcom Group
    Principal Engineer

    Client: Mass General Brigham · Remote

    • Building an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) for Mass General Brigham — self-service provisioning of VMs and storage for clinical researchers, golden path architecture extensible to additional resource types.
    • Boosted release velocity 60%+ by designing and standardizing GitLab CI pipelines and Terraform-based infrastructure automation with reusable modules and golden path templates.
    • Architected migration from monolithic repository structure to independently deployable services, reducing deployment friction by 40%.
    • Built AI-assisted AWS Security Group optimization tool using VPC flow logs to derive least-permissive rule sets, eliminating 90% of manual security operations overhead.
    • Established cloud infrastructure standards and deployment golden paths adopted across product teams, improving consistency, onboarding speed, and operational confidence.
    • Created Azure DevOps onboarding curriculum for engineering teams expanding into Azure.
  • Jun2022 - Aug2024
    Marriott International
    Cloud & DevOps Engineer (Contract)

    Remote

    • Contributed to CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance on AWS, supporting Marriott’s hospitality technology platform.
    • Built and maintained automated file transfer workflows using Apache NiFi, improving reliability and throughput for data movement across the platform.
    • Participated in architecture and planning discussions around Dynatrace APM adoption and observability strategy.
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