Available for VP & C-suite technology roles

Marlin Todd

Cloud & Infrastructure Executive / Operations · Platform · SRE · FinOps

I lead the cloud, platform, and operations organizations that keep mission-critical systems fast, resilient, and cost-efficient, and I partner across the C-suite to turn infrastructure and reliability into a measurable business advantage.

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Marlin Todd, Cloud and Infrastructure Executive
Career uptime
20+ yrs
Team scaled
12 → 38
Cloud savings
$8M
Coverage
US · LATAM · India
Profile

From the night shift to the executive table.

Marlin Todd has spent two decades inside the systems other people depend on, from racking and running Windows infrastructure for one of the world's largest hosting providers to leading the global cloud platform behind a connected medical device used by patients every day. That range, hands on the keyboard to hand on the strategy, is the throughline of his career.

Today he owns cloud operations and platform engineering for a regulated, patient-facing healthcare business, setting strategy and running reliability, automation, and FinOps across distributed teams in the United States, Latin America, and India. He works where technology meets the business, translating infrastructure decisions into the cost, risk, and speed that executives can act on.

He is known for two things in equal measure: building teams and cultures that scale, and turning cloud spend into measurable results, without ever trading away reliability or compliance. He partners naturally with product, security, and regulatory leaders, speaks plainly to the boardroom and the engineering floor alike, and has a long reputation for owning the hardest problems in the room and seeing them through.

Telemetry

The numbers behind the title.

A track record measured the way operations should be: in dollars saved, risk reduced, and systems that stay up.

$8M
Cloud cost removed
Vendor renegotiation and rightsizing that cut $8M from an enterprise cloud operations budget.
18%
AWS spend, YoY
Year-over-year reduction in AWS spend through a disciplined FinOps program.
30%
Cloud efficiency, YoY
Sustained annual reduction in cloud spend at scale while improving performance.
12→38
Team scaled
Grew a global platform, SRE, and automation organization under one accountable structure.
6,500
VMs migrated
Led a team of 17 migrating an entire production VMware data center into Azure across two regions for HA and DR.
5,000+
Seats migrated
Large-scale Exchange and Microsoft 365 migrations with availability, DR, and scalability built in.
99.95%
Availability
Reliability sustained for mission-critical, patient-facing services under business-driven SLOs.
EST.
~40%
Faster recovery
Reduction in mean time to recovery through SRE practice and automated incident response.
EST.
Deployment history

Two decades in production.

Oct 2023 → PresentDallas, TX (Remote)

Cloud Operations & Platform Leadership

Insulet Corporation
  • Lead cloud operations and platform engineering, SRE, FinOps, and developer enablement for a global connected-health ecosystem.
  • Scaled the organization 12 to 38; drove $8M in savings and an 18% YoY reduction in AWS spend.
  • Run a follow-the-sun on-call model and a self-service internal developer platform (Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD), kept continuously audit-ready for FDA, HIPAA, and SOC 2.
  • Partner with the CTO, CIO, and product, security, and regulatory leaders to align platform investment with product launches and patient-safety commitments.
Aug 2022 → Oct 2023Dallas, TX

Director, Principal Architecture Delivery

Headstorm
  • Directed a distributed organization of 30+ engineers, architects, and DBAs delivering managed infrastructure and application support across enterprise clients.
  • Set technical direction for complex multi-client cloud and infrastructure solutions, grounded in SAFe and CI/CD.
  • Established and led architecture communities of practice, institutionalizing knowledge-sharing and mentorship.
Feb 2020 → Aug 2022Dallas, TX

Director, Cloud & Infrastructure Operations

Signify Health
  • Member of the CTO leadership team; led cloud strategy and transformation across Azure and AWS.
  • Delivered a ~30% YoY reduction in annualized cloud spend while improving performance.
  • Designed and implemented the disaster recovery strategy for the company's cloud environments.
Aug 2014 → Feb 2020Dallas, TX

Sr. Cloud & Infrastructure Services Architect

Credera
  • Advised Fortune 100-1000 clients on Azure and AWS architecture, migrations, and adoption.
  • Led a 17-person team migrating 6,500 VMs from VMware into Azure; ran a 1,500-mailbox Office 365 cutover with identity governance and conditional access.
  • Architected Azure API Management and integrations with Salesforce and ServiceNow, and presented adoption roadmaps to C-level stakeholders.
Apr 2011 → Aug 2014Dallas, TX

Microsoft Enterprise Solutions Architect

Softchoice
  • Architected Microsoft cloud and infrastructure solutions for Fortune 500 clients and mentored a team of solutions consultants.
Sep 2010 → Apr 2011Dallas, TX

Exchange Support Engineer III

Microsoft
  • Tier III support for 5,000+ seat Exchange 2007/2010 migrations and early Exchange Online deployments.
Mar 2008 → Aug 2010Houston, TX

Sr. Windows Engineer

The Planet
  • Hand-picked by the CEO as one of four engineers to launch the company's Managed Hosting and Professional Services business lines.
Capabilities

What I bring to the table.

// 01

Cloud Platforms

AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM), Azure (AKS, ExpressRoute, Entra ID, Key Vault, Site Recovery), and Google Cloud, architected for scale.

// 02

Reliability & Operations

SRE, SLO/SLA and error budgets, golden-signal observability, 24/7 incident management, follow-the-sun on-call, disaster recovery.

// 03

Automation & Delivery

Terraform and infrastructure as code, CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, policy-as-code, and self-service internal developer platforms.

// 04

FinOps & Cost

Cloud cost optimization, rightsizing, vendor renegotiation, and team-level budget accountability that turns spend into results.

// 05

Security & Compliance

HIPAA, SOC 2, FDA / 21 CFR Part 11, ISO 27001, and NIST, with identity governance and conditional access across regulated estates.

// 06

Leadership

Organizational scaling, distributed and global teams, executive partnership, architecture practice, and engineer mentorship.

Credentials

Certified across AI, DevOps, and the major clouds.

Current credentials in AI and machine learning, DevOps and Kubernetes, and multi-cloud architecture, on a deep infrastructure foundation.

AI & Machine Learning
AWS Certified AI PractitionerAmazon Web Services
AWS Certified Machine LearningAmazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure AI Engineer AssociateMicrosoft Azure
DevOps & Cloud-Native
AWS Certified DevOps EngineerAmazon Web Services · Professional
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Cloud Native Computing Foundation
HashiCorp Terraform AssociateHashiCorp
GitLab CertifiedGitLab
Azure DevOps Engineer ExpertMicrosoft Azure · Expert
Cloud Architecture
AWS Certified Solutions ArchitectAmazon Web Services · Associate
Google Cloud Professional Cloud ArchitectGoogle Cloud
Microsoft Infrastructure
MCSE: Server InfrastructureMicrosoft Certified Solutions Expert
MCSE: Private CloudMicrosoft Certified Solutions Expert
MCITP: Enterprise AdministratorMicrosoft Certified IT Professional
Signal from the field

What people who have worked with me say.

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His dedication, advanced skill sets, attention to detail, and highly superior troubleshooting ability are second to none. Remember the name: Marlin Todd.

Greg FowlerSenior Systems Architect, The Planet
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Marlin is scary smart when it comes to the stack. He blows customers away with his ability to line up function with business, and he is never afraid of a challenging conversation.

John MeierAccount Executive, Softchoice
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In almost 15 years of IT, Marlin is the best Windows administrator I have met. I rarely use the word brilliant to describe someone in this industry, but his knowledge is just that.

George GovantesSenior Database Administrator, Dril-Quip
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Marlin came in, assessed and planned the work, and deployed the full scope in half the time to hit the original date. These abilities are very hard to come by, no matter how many years someone has in the industry.

Chris BrooksClient, Legacy Community Health Services
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Marlin is truly an advanced expert in his field, a person of great integrity, forward thinking, and eager to evolve. Without hesitation, I recommend him both professionally and personally.

Jennifer GrayClient
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He will not fluff you with nonsense. Marlin is straight-forward, tells you how it is, and explains why in a way anyone can understand. Any company would be lucky to have him.

Matthew BoehmSenior MySQL DBA, The Planet
Get in touch

Let's talk.

If you are building, scaling, or rescuing a cloud, platform, or reliability organization, I would like to hear about it.

marlintodd@me.com → Connect on LinkedIn
Dallas, Texas · 214-356-6247 · Remote or hybrid