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John Powner Jr.

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer — Technologist

I'm a cloud and infrastructure engineer with over a decade of experience building reliable, automated, and scalable systems across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments. I've written Python automation to recover 500,000 deleted S3 files, engineered ingestion pipelines for 141 million digital evidence records, and optimized fleets of 300+ EC2 instances. I work best at the intersection of deep technical ownership and cross-functional impact — turning operational complexity into clean, observable, well-automated infrastructure.

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This Site

How It's Built

Production infrastructure designed and built end-to-end.

Featured Project

powner.rocks

A fully automated personal portfolio site built on AWS and managed entirely as code. Static assets are served globally via CloudFront from a private S3 bucket. A serverless contact form runs on API Gateway and Lambda, with invisible reCAPTCHA v3 and SES email delivery. All infrastructure is provisioned with Terraform, deployed through a GitLab CI/CD pipeline on every push, and monitored in real time with Grafana dashboards backed by CloudWatch metrics.

AWS S3 CloudFront Lambda API Gateway SES Terraform GitLab CI/CD Python Grafana CloudWatch

Observability

Live Infrastructure Metrics

Real-time dashboards powered by AWS CloudWatch and Grafana — monitoring the infrastructure that runs this site.

Dashboard 01

Application

Contact form submissions, Lambda performance, and SES email delivery — end-to-end visibility into every message sent through this site.

Form Submissions Error Rate % p50 Latency SES Delivery Rate
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Dashboard 02

Infrastructure

CloudFront CDN traffic, Lambda invocations, and API Gateway health — full-stack observability across every AWS service powering the site.

Total Requests Bytes Served Error Rates p99 Latency
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Dashboard 03

Cost

Daily AWS spend by service with 30-day projections and cost-per-request efficiency metrics — keeping the infrastructure lean and observable.

Daily Spend 30-Day Total Projected Cost Cost / 1K Requests
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Contact

Let's Connect

Whether you have a role in mind, a technical challenge to discuss, or just want to connect — I'm always open to a conversation.

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Location Jersey City, NJ — NYC Metro
Availability Remote & Hybrid considered