DevOps, platform & enterprise Snowflake leadership.
25+ years leading DevOps, platform engineering, and cloud across Fortune 100 and high-growth companies — including hands-on leadership of one of the largest enterprise Snowflake environments in the industry. This is what I do, and what I can bring to a team.
What I bring to a team
Where I've spent 25+ years, and where I add the most value.
DevOps & Platform Engineering
CI/CD, cloud architecture, and platform modernization across AWS, Azure, and GCP — systems that ship faster and scale cleanly.
Enterprise Snowflake & Cost Optimization
Hands-on leadership of enterprise-scale Snowflake environments — implementation, governance, and cost avoidance where spend runs into eight figures.
Security & Compliance
DevSecOps and audit readiness — led teams to SOC2 and ISO27001 certification with low exception rates.
Engineering Leadership & Scaling
Building and leading global engineering teams through rapid growth — and author of three books on scaling organizations.
Enterprise Snowflake & Cost Optimization
I lead one of the largest enterprise Snowflake environments in the industry — eight figures in annual spend. My focus: implementation done right, and keeping cost under control as the estate scales.
- Warehouse right-sizing, auto-suspend & resource-monitor guardrails
- Cost attribution & FinOps visibility by team and workload
- Query & storage optimization at scale
- Governance, RBAC & data masking
- Snowflake implementation & migration architecture
- Source Control & Change Mgmt
- CI/CD & Deployment
- Environment Management
- Transformation & Orchestration
- Data Quality & Testing
- Observability & Monitoring
- Security & Governance
- Cost Management & FinOps
- Org, Process & Data Products
Selected outcomes
Enterprise Snowflake Cost Control
Keep spend under control in an eight-figure Snowflake environment through cost controls, monitoring, and warehouse governance.
Audit-Ready Security
Led teams to SOC2 and ISO27001 certification with low exception rates and measurable vulnerability reduction.
Platform Reliability at Scale
Architected DevOps operations supporting high-volume deployments in high-availability environments.
Global Team Leadership
Built and led distributed engineering teams across multiple countries through periods of rapid growth.
The Scaling Equation series
The frameworks behind my approach, written for founders and technical leaders.
Patterns & frameworks for technical leaders navigating scale
Every Friday: DevOps and Snowflake cost patterns, scaling frameworks, and AI-impact analysis I can't fit in a LinkedIn post. No fluff. No pitches.
Written for CEOs, founders, and technical leaders who'd rather see the patterns coming than clean up after them.
I'm Josh — founder of JW Tech Strategies and a Marine Corps veteran.
25+ years leading technology teams across wireless, gaming, aerospace, cybersecurity, and marketing — always responsible for making systems work and scale. What I've learned: technical problems are rarely just technical. The code and infrastructure are symptoms; the cause is usually organizational.
That lens comes from Fortune 100 depth, startup speed, hands-on leadership of enterprise-scale Snowflake and cloud environments, and a diagnostic discipline drawn from three published books and a Wharton CTO Program. This site is a living snapshot of what I do and what I can bring to a team.