Hello, I'm Stephen Abbot
Infrastructure platform engineer. I find what's broken in large AWS estates, make it visible, and design systems that are cost‑efficient and operationally transparent.
20+ years building distributed, data-centric, and observability solutions
Cloud Architecture
I design AWS foundation and supporting services that keep costs low, reduce operational risk, and give teams a clear path to production.
Site Reliability
I build observability, incident response, and deployment practices that turn fragile systems into predictable services, with clear signals and low-friction rollouts.
Technical Mentorship
I help teams understand the "why" behind infrastructure decisions, so they can move faster with confidence while keeping security, cost, and reliability in view.
AI-Assisted Development
I use AI tools as force multipliers — accelerating design, documentation, and implementation — while keeping architecture, controls, and long-term maintainability in human hands.
Flagship Project
Largest-scope project: programmatic AWS account analysis and governance.
Programmatic Account Analysis at Scale
Programmatic account analysis for 40+ AWS accounts in a Fortune 23 healthcare organization.
Most teams had no reliable way to tell if their AWS infrastructure was cost-efficient, secure, or compliant. There was no central view across accounts, and no easy way to spot waste, drift, or risky configurations.
I designed and built a Python/PostgreSQL/BI platform that continuously analyzes AWS account configurations — surfacing phantom resources, orphaned infrastructure, security misconfigurations, IAM over-provisioning, and cost optimization opportunities.
I am currently rebuilding the platform with an improved architecture informed by lessons from the first version.
Supporting Projects
Selected projects from my platform catalog that solve specific problems and support the flagship analysis tool.
- Foundation Terraform Bootstrap
A minimal bootstrap tool that creates the S3 and DynamoDB backends needed for Terraform state, with sensible defaults and guardrails. Teams can adopt Terraform with a secure, versioned backend in hours instead of days.
- Website Infrastructure
A reusable AWS stack for static websites using S3, CloudFront, and Route53, tuned for low cost and strong security by default. Production-ready hosting at roughly $3/month with global distribution and no idle compute.
- Email Handler
A small AWS service that receives contact emails, enriches them with context, and forwards them to the right inboxes using SES and Lambda. Zero-maintenance contact management at pennies per month.
- Service Observability CloudTrail
Opinionated logging patterns and pipelines that standardize how services emit structured audit trails, making issues faster to detect and diagnose. Faster incident response with consistent signals across accounts.
Core Technologies
Primary technologies I work with daily in cloud architecture and site reliability engineering
Recent Thinking
Here's how these problems look in practice. Observations from working inside 800+ account infrastructure — not repackaged documentation.