Marcus T. Ellison

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Senior Solutions Architect with 11 years designing and delivering enterprise cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions across financial services, healthcare, and SaaS verticals. Specializes in AWS-native architectures, microservices migration, and pre-sales technical strategy for deals ranging from $500K to $8M. Reduced average client time-to-production by 34% across a portfolio of 22 engagements over the past three years.

Work Experience

Senior Solutions ArchitectMar 2021 - Present

Meridian Cloud Partners, Austin, TX

Architected a multi-region AWS platform for a Tier-1 insurance carrier, cutting disaster-recovery RTO from 6 hours to 22 minutes and eliminating $1.4M in annual mainframe licensing costs.
Led pre-sales technical strategy for 14 enterprise opportunities in FY 2023, contributing to $11.2M in closed ARR and maintaining a 71% technical win rate against three named competitors.
Designed and enforced a Well-Architected Review program across 30+ client accounts, reducing average security finding severity score by 58% within 90 days of engagement.

Cloud Solutions ArchitectJun 2017 - Feb 2021

Vantex Systems, Dallas, TX

Migrated a 340-service monolithic e-commerce platform to containerized microservices on EKS, reducing p99 API latency from 1.8 s to 210 ms and supporting a 4× traffic surge during peak season.
Built a reusable Terraform module library adopted by 9 delivery teams, cutting new-environment provisioning time from 3 days to under 4 hours and saving an estimated 1,200 engineering hours annually.
Collaborated with account executives on RFP responses for 8 Fortune 500 prospects, producing architecture diagrams and TCO models that shortened the average sales cycle by 19 days.

Infrastructure EngineerAug 2013 - May 2017

Holloway Financial Technology, Chicago, IL

Designed a hybrid WAN topology connecting 12 regional offices to a Chicago data center, achieving 99.97% uptime over a 36-month measurement window.
Automated VM provisioning and patch workflows using Ansible and Python, reducing manual ops overhead by 22 hours per week across a 600-node estate.
Led PCI DSS 3.2 remediation project that closed 47 control gaps in 5 months, enabling the firm to pass its QSA audit without findings for the first time in four years.

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AWS Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) · Terraform & Infrastructure as Code · Kubernetes / Amazon EKS · Microservices & API Gateway Design · Pre-Sales Technical Strategy & RFP Response · Python & Bash Scripting · Network Architecture (BGP, SD-WAN, VPC) · Well-Architected Framework Reviews · HashiCorp Vault & Secrets Management

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