Gary Canter II

Gary Canter II's work experience includes a role as a Senior Cloud Engineer / Technical Lead at ARA. In this role, they provided technical guidance and leadership across Security, Engineering, and Platform teams for a DoD Program. Gary streamlined engineering and development processes and had three team leads reporting to him. Prior to this, they worked as a Staff Cloud Engineer / Platform Lead / Technical Lead at ARA.

Before joining ARA, Gary worked at Blackboard as a Systems Administrator and was responsible for the maintenance and security of virtualization infrastructure, databases, and servers. Gary also led production software upgrades and assisted with the planning of technology migrations.

Earlier in their career, they worked at Sequoia Retail Systems as a System Administrator, where they were responsible for the design, maintenance, and security of virtualization, database, and servers. Gary achieved high uptime for over 100 systems. Gary also worked as a Tier II Support Technician and Tier 1 Help Desk Technician, providing customer support and troubleshooting web-based applications.

Overall, Gary Canter II has a strong background in cloud engineering, systems administration, and technical leadership.

Gary Canter II completed their Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from East Tennessee State University, where they studied from 2009 to 2013. In addition to their degree, they have obtained several certifications, including the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in January 2022, the CompTIA Security+ ce Certification from CompTIA in August 2021, the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate from AWS in May 2021, the Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Technology Associate from Microsoft in July 2014, and the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) from EC-Council in August 2019.