Kathie Kinde Clark

I believe the best ideas in the AWS ecosystem shouldn't be locked behind paywalls or big marketing budgets. That's why I spend a lot of my time building communities where knowledge flows freely.

I'm VP of Operations at Rhythmic Technologies, where I lead Sales, Marketing, Alliances, Customer Success, and Compliance. But the work I'm most proud of happens outside my day job.

I founded the AWS Partner User Group—a free, peer-driven community of 100+ partners helping each other navigate the AWS ecosystem. I lead the AWS Cleveland and AWS DMV User Groups. I lead AWS DMV Community Day and serve on the organizing committee for AWS Midwest Community Day. In 2025, AWS recognized this work with the "Invent & Simplify Champion" award and a Community Travel Grant. Most recently, I was awarded Female MSP Leader of the Year by Superops. 

I have a pattern of seeing gaps nobody's filling and stepping in. Sometimes that's building a community. Sometimes that's mentoring early-career women so they don't have to learn lessons the hard way. Sometimes it's just asking the question everyone else is afraid to ask.

In my free time, I'm a passionate but frustrated Cleveland sports fan, an avid photographer, GenAI enthusiast, and mom to three grown children and three unruly cats.

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Certifications: AWS (12x),  K8s (3x) CKS, CKA, CKAD, Hashicorp Terraform Associate.

Adaptable Solutions Architect who excels at multi-tasking.
Experience in customer service and IT operations with excellent troubleshooting skills. Strong written and communication skills. High level of proficiency in relationship building and collaboration. Quick learner suited for fast-paced environment.

Working knowledge in cloud strategy, solution architecture, and architecture assessment on AWS.    Proficient in Kubernetes, hosting web servers on containers, building docker images using Docker file, cluster administration.  Good knowledge of RDBMS using MySQL/MariaDB. Experienced in Automated resource creation process using CloudFormation, Terraform, Bash and Python scripts (pre-boot and bootstrapping process). Familiar with Lambda using Python. Good knowledge on Application Migrations and Data migrations from On-premise to AWS Cloud.  AWS SAP signifies strength in designing and deploying scalable, highly available, secured and fault tolerant systems and identifying appropriate use of AWS Architectural best practices. 

Cloud, Sales, Microservices, Continuous Improvement, SQL/NoSQL, Data Analytics, Terraform, Kubernetes and chaos engineering

AWS Services : IAM, Lambda, S3, Glacier, Route53, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EBS, EFS, VPC, Fargate, ECS, EKS, DynamoDB, RDS, Kinesis, CloudFront, CloudFormation/SAM, API Gateway, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, ElasticSearch, CodeDeploy, CodeStar, etc.

IaaC: CloudFormation, Terraform

Languages : Python, JS, CSS, HTML, BASH, SQL, YAML, JSON, Terraform

Source Code Management : GIT, GitHub, CodeCommit

Operating systems : Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS

Databases: DynamoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, SQL Server

Containers: Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Docker Registry, Docker Desktop, Kubernetes

Kubernetes: Setup (Cluster, EKS), Deployments, Secrets, RBAC, Microservices, Service Mesh, Network Policies, Ingress, Security: (seccomp, AppArmor, Falco, Trivy)

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