Christopher Welle

Cloud infrastructure leadership. Practical IT solutions.

More than 30 years in information technology and over 12 years working with AWS—helping organizations build secure cloud foundations, modernize infrastructure, automate operations, control costs, and solve difficult technology problems.

Introduction:

Experienced judgment from architecture through operations.

I’m Christopher Welle, a San Jose–based cloud infrastructure and IT professional. I have supported startups, public agencies, healthcare organizations, global brands, and Fortune 100 enterprises across cloud architecture, systems engineering, DevOps, security, networking, disaster recovery, and production operations.

My work combines enterprise architecture with hands-on implementation. I help teams understand what they have, identify the risks and unnecessary complexity, and build systems that are secure, repeatable, supportable, and aligned with the business.

Services:

How I can help

• AWS architecture and migration
• Design and improve secure AWS environments for new platforms, migrations, acquisitions, and growing organizations.
• AWS Control Tower and multi-account governance
• VPC, IAM, hybrid networking, and landing zones.
• Application, server, and data migration
• High-availability and multi-region architecture
• Infrastructure automation and platforms
• Replace fragile manual work with repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure and delivery practices.
• Terraform and CloudFormation
• Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, and containers
• Linux, Windows, and cloud platform operations
• Security, reliability, and FinOps
• Strengthen infrastructure without losing sight of availability, usability, or cost.
• AWS security reviews and remediation
• Identity, encryption, access controls, and monitoring
• Disaster recovery and business continuity
• Rightsizing, waste reduction, and cloud cost optimization

Business IT services:

Practical support for San Jose and Bay Area small businesses that need technology to work reliably.

• Computers, servers, printers, and user support
• Networks, Wi-Fi, firewalls, and secure remote access
• Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, email, and DNS
• Backups, recovery planning, patching, and security basics

Selected results:

• Experience measured in delivered systems
• 386 domains migrated into Amazon Route 53.
• Greenfield AWS organizations built with Control Tower, centralized billing, logging, auditing, organizational units, and policy controls.
• Production platforms delivered as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and EKS.
• Multi-brand environments supported for organizations including Reebok, Eddie Bauer, Brooks Brothers, Forever 21, Lucky Brand, Aéropostale, and Nautica.
• Regulated and security-sensitive work supporting public-sector, healthcare, GDPR-related, and HIPAA-related environments.
• Three decades of operational experience across desktops, servers, networks, identity, cloud platforms, incident response, and disaster recovery.

Experience:

Enterprise depth without unnecessary complexity.

I have worked across the complete technology lifecycle—from classroom networks and corporate systems administration to high-availability cloud platforms and enterprise AWS architecture.

That range matters. Cloud problems are rarely confined to one service. Architecture, networking, identity, security, deployment, monitoring, support, recovery, cost, and the people operating the system all affect the outcome.

My approach is straightforward: understand the real problem, prioritize the important risks, implement a practical solution, and leave behind clear documentation and maintainable systems.

Let’s make the next step clear.

Whether you are planning an AWS initiative, reducing infrastructure risk, improving cloud costs, or trying to get everyday business technology under control, I can help turn the problem into a practical plan.