About

Hi, I'm Jeremy Browning. I'm a Senior Technologist based in Columbus, Ohio, with more than twenty years of experience designing cloud, big data, and enterprise systems. As of May 2026 I'm a Senior Solutions Engineer at Cloudflare, helping customers build on the global network — edge compute, zero-trust networking, and everything that lives one hop closer to the user than the cloud usually does. Before Cloudflare I spent six and a half years at Amazon Web Services as a Senior Solutions Architect, working as a strategic trusted advisor to C-suite leaders across 30+ enterprise accounts and translating their business goals into AWS architectures that could actually carry the weight of production.

The work I'm proudest of usually happens at the intersection of three things: getting an architecture right, getting the people building it up to speed, and making sure both survive contact with reality. Over the years I've led Well-Architected reviews across large enterprise environments, run technical Immersion Days and deep-dive workshops for more than 500 engineers, and designed production-grade environments — Transit VPC topologies, hybrid AWS/OpenStack deployments, big-data platforms on Hadoop and Cassandra — for customers whose tolerance for surprises was approximately zero.

Alongside the day job I've taught AWS Cloud Architect and Foundations courses at Columbus State Community College since 2018, where I've worked with more than 300 students preparing for AWS certifications. Teaching keeps me honest: it's hard to hand-wave through VPC peering or IAM policy logic when someone in row three is going to call you on it. A lot of the writing here will draw on the same instinct — explain it plainly, show the moving parts, don't pretend the messy bits aren't there.

What you'll find on this blog

I started this site as a place to write about the stuff I find myself explaining over and over — cloud and edge architecture, the AWS Well-Architected Framework, security and resiliency patterns, big data and analytics, and the long, weird arc from on-prem Hadoop clusters to serverless to the edge. Expect posts that are practical, opinionated where it counts, and grounded in things I've actually shipped or had to fix at 2 a.m. Opinions here are my own and don't represent Cloudflare, AWS, or anyone else.

Background

  • Senior Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare — May 2026 to present.
  • Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services — 2019–2026, Columbus, OH.
  • Non-Accredited Instructor (AWS), Columbus State Community College — 2018 to present.
  • Solutions Architect / Enterprise Architect, CAS — 2017–2019.
  • Principal Architect, Big Data, Cardinal Solutions — 2016–2017.
  • Senior Architect, Big Data, DMI — 2014–2016.
  • Consulting Software Engineer, OCLC — 2005–2014. Including some early Hadoop Map/Reduce work on a 33-node Beowulf cluster, mining MARC records and circulation data, back when that was still a slightly exotic thing to do.
  • B.S., Computer Information Systems, DeVry University.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Accredited Instructor (Architecture & Cloud Computing)
  • Cloudera Certified Hadoop Administrator

Selected writing

Get in touch

The best way to reach me is on LinkedIn. I'm happy to hear from readers, students, former colleagues, and anyone with a good architecture story.