John Edward Norton

About Me

Building solutions that scale — and last.

Cybersecurity Engineer, IC, PM

20+ years of cloud security leadership with 10+ focused on cybersecurity product management. Reduced organizational risk, prevented millions in potential costs, and enhanced compliance through IaC guardrails and policy-as-code.

I've led infrastructure migrations, built zero-downtime deployment pipelines, and architected serverless platforms processing millions of events daily.

"Is Smart. Gets things done."

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Rowing

Concept2 RowErg — the ultimate honest machine. No coasting.

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Favorite Book

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley — still relevant, still unsettling.

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Chopping Wood

Wood warms you twice — once when you chop it, once when it burns.

Career

2026

Distinguished Cloud Platform Security Engineer

Leading multi-region infrastructure strategy and platform engineering.

2023

Lead DevOps Security Engineer

Designed and owned CI/CD pipelines and serverless data platforms.

2021

Senior Security Software Engineer

Migrated legacy monolith to containerized microservices on ECS.

2019

Security Platform Engineer

Full-stack development with a focus on backend APIs and cloud integrations.

~2012

Network Systems Engineer | Server Administrator

2010

George Mason University

Volgenau School of Engineering

B.S. Applied Information Technology

Concentration in Database & Programming

Expertise

Skills & Proficiency

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS95%
Terraform / IaC92%
Docker / Kubernetes88%
CI/CD Pipelines90%

Development

Python90%
JavaScript / TypeScript85%
Bash / Shell88%
SQL / DynamoDB82%