Cloud: TIS engineers hold a variety of cloud certifications and have experience working with all three major cloud providers.

• Built and maintain platform infrastructure on one of the DoD’s largest cloud-based solutions, including a DoD secure cloud environment only accessible via a virtual desktop interface solution.
• Critical project deployment to Azure IL6, working directly with Microsoft.
• Enabled significant cost savings for the government through implementation of its system observability stack on DoD platforms.
• Rapid deployments and recovery infrastructure alike, building cloud environments on infrastructure as code, utilizing tools like AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, Puppet, and Ansible, maintaining integrity and security.

Platform: TIS’s DevSecOps-guided expertise in implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approaches allows us to design and deploy platforms with Quick Reaction Capabilities (QRC).

• • TIS led a team of Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) as technical team lead to set up, deploy and manage a disaster recovery site, all remotely.
  • Rapidly pushed patches for zero-day exploit vulnerabilities.
  • Achieved a 99.99% service level at a life-saving DoD platform, through IaC implementation.
  • Industry-leading experience in orchestrating Kubernetes (K8s) clusters, including pioneering the use of K8s at a critical component command.
• TIS personnel led design, development, deployment, and integration of platform infrastructure, data pipelining, and analyst application suites for Apache NiFi extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data into Apache Accumulo as a data lake with tagging for classification and lineage tracing.
• Reduced deployment time needed for a STIG compliant secure infrastructure and platform toolset from weeks or months, to a few days or even mere hours, with minimal bottleneck, regardless of classification level.
• Enabled rapid code deployment: from development to production in minutes.

TIS delivers its expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Data Science, on multiple USG task orders.

• Vectorizing documents through TF/IDF techniques in a high dimensional space
• Enabling more efficient nearest neighbor searches locality-sensitive hashing function to
• Training classifiers, using algorithms like XGBoost, HistGBT, and Random Forest.
• Optimizing exploitation of pre-trained foundation models to make data in large data lakes more accessible to users.
• Fine-tuning pre-trained language models like BERT to build a data cleaner.
• Extracting structured data from unstructured text using zero shot prompting of models in various parameter classes
• Developing and deploying Machine Learning capabilities on metrics data for a large-scale and scope USG analytics platform.
• Developing a multifaceted LLM agent for querying and locating objectives across large-scale targeting databases.

TIS manages petabyte-level data flows, helping to build, deploy, and maintain over 30 apps for forward-deployed data scientists within DoD projects.

• Built and maintains the data science analytics cluster for a DoD program, performing data infusion and insight using large volumes of biometrics data, push/pulling through notification services and exchanging between systems.
• Leveraged data analytics and historical naval vessel location data from multiple sources to build a novel but lightweight DoD data analytics app.
• Applied data science expertise in support of DoD captured enemy materials (CEM) application.
• Maintained a custom Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) data engineering stack with high volume daily throughput, and implemented data-tagging to categorize content, and performs data processing with Apache NiFi to ensure proper segregation to authorized end locations, for a DoD component command.

Experts in Full Stack Development, TIS has mastered the implementation of DevSecOps pipelines, adhering to Agile and GitLab management approaches, at both unclassified and classified levels.

• Designed and implemented a bottleneck-free development pipeline that facilitates a wide variety of task-successes, in a DoD component command responsible for no-fail missions, honing TIS’s ability to apply its technical expertise at an elite level.
• TIS earned cutting edge experience in implementing code-scanning trust models backed by manual audit at a DoD agency, proving the viability of the model which has now been adopted by other agencies for their tooling.
• Developed a novel, lightweight DoD analytics app in Python and R to analyze naval vessel location data.

TIS has a deep technical understanding of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), NIST SP 800-53 security controls, DoD authentication protocols, and automation of system monitoring, issue anticipation, alerting, and ticketing.

• Assists USG partners with security compliance by document generation including concept of operations (CONOPS) and body-of-evidence (BOE) gathering, systems design conformant with the secure cloud computing architecture (SCCA), and applying secure technical implementation guides (STIGS) validated by secure content automation protocol (SCAP) scans and STIG checklists.
• TIS’s automation platform attained one of the highest security scores agency-wide in a recent Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System (JWICS) Cyber Inspection Program assessment.
• Implements data governance and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions to ensure data confidentiality and enforcement of policies on data sharing and protection. On the Catapult (a DoD Program of Record) data lake, which takes in over 1,000 data feeds, TIS’s contributed to the design of the architecture that houses the data lake, ensured data integrity, prevented data spillage, and maintains and enforces USG data access policies.
• TIS is designing and implementing centralized automation solutions to check STIG and vulnerability assessment.

TIS regularly configures, deploys and manages custom system and network observability and visualization stacks.

• TIS avoids USG vendor-lock (and contractor lock) by integrating cutting edge open-source tools, while still able to deliver automation, documentation, and real-time usage metrics, streamlining security compliance and support for the DoD.
• In addition to reducing support needs through enhanced reliability and drastically reduced downtime, TIS’s tailored observability stack also monitors and alerts on change of vulnerability state.
• Achieved million-dollar savings for its customers through analyzing cloud instance usage levels and reducing unnecessary expense.
• Automated to minimize disturbance and delay caused from external dependencies, streamlining development pipeline deployment down to only a handful of manual steps.
• Eliminates extremely expensive and high-risk delays through automation of Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) tools, reducing labor time from months to minutes.