Forrest C. Shields II is a DevOps Engineer at PGi in Colorado Springs, CO USA. Forrest is a seasoned cloud engineer that specializes in deployment automation of software, infrastructure and networks using Amazon Web Services (AWS). His expertise covers the entire spectrum of AWS offerings, including: EC2, VPC, S3, CloudFormation, OpsWorks, IAM, Lambda, Route 53, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, SQS, and SNS. His daily toolset consists of Chef, CloudFormation, Bash scripting, and PowerShell scripting.

Interests:

• All things "cloud"
• Embedded Systems, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, robotics
• High Voltage, Nikola Tesla, Tesla coils
• Scuba diving, eating lobster and crab

Associations:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Mentor for Coronado H.S. Robotics Team
• Co-organizer for South Colorado .NET User Group