Craig Johnson serves as a Technical Solution Architect with Forward Networks and is based in Irving, TX. Presently, his work revolves around Public and Hybrid Cloud architectures, with a special emphasis on automation and security posture management. Before pivoting to public cloud endeavors, Craig amassed extensive experience at Cisco as well as various startups. Beyond his professional commitments, he is an active AWS community builder and spearheads the (TX)NUG - Dallas Networking User Group. He also holds the distinction of being CCIE #6965, with expertise in Routing and Switching, Storage Area Networking, and Datacenter Networking.