Nick Garner, CCIE #17871, is a Solutions Integration Architect with Cisco Systems supporting customers in large-scale network design. He has deployed and supported large-scale data center designs for prominent clients in the San Francisco Bay area and works with Amazon Web Services daily. Prior to Cisco he spent some time with a Cisco partner, Denali Advanced Integration and is also a founder of several IoT companies that operate exclusively in AWS. He is also a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.