US Department of Education Loan Servicer
A federal and government-aligned architecture context with stronger compliance, documentation, and auditability demands.
This engagement involved architecture and consulting for a federal student loan servicer operating under US Department of Education contracts, with strict FedRAMP and SOC 2 constraints.
Via Lando Consulting, I supported a migration from a physical data center to AWS using Terraform infrastructure-as-code, while managing the cost model and redesigning how a large engineering organization thought about infrastructure, resilience, and cloud opex. The work spanned roughly 150 people across ~30 internal products. Details are under NDA, but the shape of the work is useful as a marker for “enterprise cloud architecture under heavy compliance and institutional constraints.”
Building a FinOps program for a 150-person engineering organization that had just left its own data center — tagging, cost allocation, committed-use strategy, and teaching cloud cost to engineers who had never bought capacity by the hour.
Two years moving roughly 30 internal products out of a physical data center onto AWS with Terraform, inside a federal compliance envelope that shaped the design before performance did.