Andy Petersen

Background

About Andy Petersen

With deep expertise in IT and DevOps strategy, multi-cloud architectures and developer experience, I’ve led cloud optimization, infrastructure design, DevOps standards adoption and increased developer productivity. I excel at leading teams, optimizing workflows, and ensuring scalable, and cost-effective solutions for cloud environments. I strive for cross-organizational and departmental collaboration to align priorities and achieve strategic business objectives. Core Values: 1⃣ Continuous Improvement – Always refining processes, learning, and adapting to drive better outcomes 2⃣ Data-Driven Decision Making – Leveraging insights and analytics to guide strategy and execution 3⃣ Communication & Collaboration – Fostering alignment through transparency, clarity, and shared goals Career Highlights: Infrastructure as Code: Drove the adoption of Terraform across IT and Engineering teams, significantly reducing environment creation time and improving environment parity Developer Portal: Led the implementation of an Internal Developer Portal, enabling dashboard oversight, health scores, holistic insight and automation of application environments Enterprise Architecture: Designed and built an enterprise grade multi-cloud hybrid infrastructure involving AWS, Azure, on-prem data centers and 100+ call centers Standards and Process: Led the initiative to define corporate standards and processes around DevOps tooling and deployment methodology, reducing tooling sprawl and increasing CI/CD pipeline efficiency Cloud Cost Optimization: Led efforts to automate cloud resource insight, identifying inconsistent standards, security risks, and cloud cost inefficiencies resulting in a 23% reduction in spend