Dean Layton-james is an accomplished Senior Solutions Architect with extensive experience in Application & Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Team Management, and Sysops. He is a critical thinker and methodical problem solver with a proven track record in designing high availability web and SaaS applications that generate measurable returns on investment and can be managed at reasonable costs.

Dean possesses a great talent for solving complex problems and troubleshooting process and infrastructure issues. He specializes in Systems Design, Business Application Design, Business Process Analysis, Technical ROI Analysis, Troubleshooting, AWS, Docker, Devops, API's, and ETL. He is a certified AWS professional, having passed all certification requirements. He has also studied Business and Business Finance at South Notts College on a day-release basis.

Dean is currently working as a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and has previously been associated with the FinOps Foundation community.