Abdoul Kouraogo

I help enterprises secure multi-cloud environments, reduce cloud spend, and achieve 99.99% uptime — all while staying compliant in highly regulated industries.

As a Senior Cloud Security Architect, I bridge the gap between business objectives and technical execution, delivering scalable architectures, governance automation, and security frameworks that drive measurable outcomes.

What I Bring:

Strategic Vision: Translate complex threat landscapes into actionable security roadmaps aligned with business strategy and compliance (HIPAA, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, SOC 2).

Technical Mastery:

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible

Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, GKE

CI/CD & Automation: Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitLab CI

Security & Compliance: Splunk, , New Relic, Sentinel, Okta, AWS IAM, CSPM, SIEM/SOAR

Leadership Impact: Lead cross-functional teams, brief executives, mentor engineers, and drive adoption of DevSecOps, governance-as-code, and Zero Trust practices.

Recent Wins:

Led global provisioning and governance for 45+ engineering delivery offices, deploying guardrails across 380+ AWS accounts.

Reduced cloud costs by 30% through right-sizing, reserved instances, and automated cost controls.

Established a service catalog for secure resource provisioning, enabling faster and more compliant deployments.

Introduced governance-as-code frameworks, cutting compliance preparation time from months to days.

Enhanced trading platform security by integrating multi-factor authentication and advanced encryption in regulated financial environments.

Improved system performance by 20% through multi-region cloud migrations and optimization.

Built secure CI/CD pipelines with SAST/DAST, secrets management, and IaC scanning — achieving zero regressions.

Forward Focus:

Aligning cloud security with business innovation through governance, AI security, and executive engagement.

I bring a unique perspective from working at the intersection of financial services, risk management, and enterprise cloud security (Charles Schwab, New York Life, Slalom Consulting, Carson Group).

Let’s connect to explore how we can strengthen your cloud security posture and drive business outcomes.