About Leon

I'm a full-stack infrastructure engineer who started wiring motor control circuits at a coal terminal in South Africa, spent 8.5 years at AWS (4 promotions, TAM for Comcast/Quantcast), and now lead cloud security at a Fortune 500 while building Smactorio - an AI governance platform using OSCAL. I understand systems from electrons to compliance frameworks.

Career Epochs

Foundational (1991-2006)

Physical Infrastructure & Industrial Systems

Trade apprenticeship, government electrician certification, heavy equipment operations, Microsoft systems administration

Network Engineering (2006-2014)

Enterprise Networking & Virtualization

ISP traffic engineering, Fortune 50 network management (BHP Billiton), virtualized deployments

Hyperscale Cloud (2014-2023)

AWS & Distributed Systems

8.5 years at AWS across 4 roles, internal tools mastery, enterprise TAM

AI Governance (2023-Present)

Security Leadership & Autonomous Systems

Fortune 500 security lead, OSCAL expertise, AI governance venture

Location

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA

Timezone: America/Chicago