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Kevin Foster

Senior Solutions Architect · Seattle · United States

Senior Solutions Architect with experience in requirements, architecture tradeoffs, adoption, and customer outcomes. Practical work includes Cloud architecture, Requirements discovery, Architecture trade-offs, Proof of concept.

Experience

Amazon

Seattle · United States

Senior Solutions Architect

Jan 2021 - now

  • As workstream lead, ran technical discovery for a partner integration, mapping API permissions, event ownership, and customer requirements into an architecture decision record with explicit unsupported cases.
  • With responsibility for the review standard, validated the integration architecture with retry, rate-limit, and permission-revocation tests; showed partners the technical recovery path instead of relying on a successful happy-path API call.
  • Translated a customer workload into a reference architecture with identity, network and recovery boundaries; tested the highest-risk integration in a proof of concept before the design review.
  • Owned an AWS integration assessment using networking and identity diagrams, resolved an unsupported routing assumption before the customer approved the architecture.
  • Released technical documentation with tested security boundaries and recovery steps, enabling a customer team to reproduce the cloud proof of concept from a clean account.

Cisco

San Jose · United States

Solutions Architect

Mar 2016 - Dec 2020

  • Ran architecture office hours for 34 partner engineers; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, gave support and product owners a clearer follow-up path.
  • Updated a troubleshooting article after reproducing a reported failure, separated user actions from administrator-only steps, and checked the procedure with a colleague using a clean setup.
  • Reproduced a customer issue on a clean configuration, compared the working and failing settings, and tested the proposed correction without administrator privileges. Published a troubleshooting sequence that preserved the customer’s original configuration.

Selected project

Solutions Architect — independent case study

Cross-functional project lead

Mar 2023 - Jul 2023

  • Created a production-readiness review covering 28 security and reliability controls; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
  • Configured a separate test environment with a documented network diagram, account permissions and failure scenarios; captured the logs needed to distinguish connectivity, authentication and application faults.
  • Tested the recovery guide from a fresh account, checked required permissions at each step, and added rollback instructions where a configuration change could disrupt the working baseline.
  • Owned the recovery rehearsal using an isolated test account, resolved a missing permission prerequisite and completed the restore without changing the working baseline.

Education

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington · United States

B.S. Computer Science

Sep 2008 - Jun 2012

Relevant coursework: Algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks

Skills

Role expertise

Cloud architecture · Requirements discovery · Architecture trade-offs · Proof of concept

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

Nov 2023

Publications

  • Published an independent troubleshooting guide using annotated logs, separating connectivity, authentication and application failures and documenting the rollback decision at each step.

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Amazon

Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Manufacturing

Seattle · United StatesSenior

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  • In the posting
      • integration
      • requirements
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Large-scale systems integration involving on-premises technology and public cloud platform”

    “Partner with AWS service teams to advocate for ISV requirements and influence roadmap priorities”

    In this resume
    As workstream lead, ran technical discovery for a partner integration, mapping API permissions, event ownership, and customer requirements into an architecture decision record with explicit unsupported cases.
    Senior Solutions Architect · Amazon
  • In the posting
      • architecture
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Knowledge of one or more of the following domains: access-control system and methodology, network security, application- and system-development security, security architecture and models, cryptography, and operations security”

    In this resume
    With responsibility for the review standard, validated the integration architecture with retry, rate-limit, and permission-revocation tests; showed partners the technical recovery path instead of relying on a successful happy-path API call.
    Senior Solutions Architect · Amazon
  • In the posting
      • technical
      • cloud
      • documentation
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Serve as the primary technical advisor for assigned ISV partners, conducting architectural reviews, POCs, and Well-Architected assessments”

    “Design, build, and validate scalable cloud-native partner solutions through co-engineering efforts that drive strategic design wins (SDWs)”

    “Develop reference architectures and best-practice documentation for partner solutions”

    In this resume
    Released technical documentation with tested security boundaries and recovery steps, enabling a customer team to reproduce the cloud proof of concept from a clean account.
    Senior Solutions Architect · Amazon
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  • In the posting
      • networking
      • AWS
      ATS keywords with experience

    “8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience”

    “Collaborate with AWS field teams (Account SAs, AMs, Specialist SAs) to drive partner-led customer engagements and pipeline growth”

    In this resume
    Owned an AWS integration assessment using networking and identity diagrams, resolved an unsupported routing assumption before the customer approved the architecture.
    Senior Solutions Architect · Amazon
  • In the posting
      • security
      ATS keywords with experience

    “8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience”

    In this resume
    Created a production-readiness review covering 28 security and reliability controls; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
    Solutions Architect — independent case study
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