Federal Student Aid
Senior platform architecture and technical advisory supporting modernization strategy, architecture governance, engineering quality, requirements traceability, technical risk, and multi-vendor delivery.
Experience
Built on real enterprise and federal delivery.
NextStepAI is led by a senior engineering and platform architecture leader with more than two decades of experience across federal government, financial services, cloud platforms, distributed systems, and engineering organizations.
Engineering & technology leadership
20+ years
Federal programs
ED / FSA · SSA
Cloud platforms
AWS · Azure · GCP
Past Performance
Social Security Administration
Engineering supporting large-scale federal systems within a government security and suitability environment.
T. Rowe Price
Engineering leadership, platform modernization, observability, automated delivery, distributed systems, and measurable customer and release-process improvements.
Legg Mason
Engineering leadership across distributed domestic and offshore teams supporting complex enterprise financial-services systems.
Principal experience includes work performed in prior employment and consulting engagements and is distinguished from NextStepAI corporate past performance where applicable.
Domains
Where that experience applies
The same engineering practice underpins both divisions. Federal programs get architecture governance and modernization sequencing; commercial clients get the same rigor applied at a smaller scale.
Legacy decomposition and incremental migration
Cloud and platform architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP
DevSecOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
Distributed systems, APIs, and integration architecture
Observability, reliability, and production operations
Architecture governance and technical risk management
Multi-vendor delivery oversight and requirements traceability
Applied AI, data architecture, and evaluation practices
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