About the founder

I'm Joel Comeaux.

I'm an Army veteran and a senior cloud infrastructure engineer. I started Aegis Cloud Group to do one specific thing well: build the infrastructure half of federal ATO engagements, so compliance teams have something real to document and federal programs have something real to ship.

The unconventional path

I enlisted in the Army out of high school. After I separated, I came up the engineering side the long way — Linux systems administration, platform reliability, containers back when Kubernetes was new, Terraform when Infrastructure as Code was still a debate. The long way, because I got to senior platform engineering by running production systems under real pressure for a decade. Not by credential-stacking on the consulting track.

Every engagement I've done since then has followed the same loop: build something that works, operate it until you understand what "works" actually means, and refactor toward something better. That loop is the reason I started ACG. It's also why the Design Principles I lead with aren't marketing slogans — they're the lessons I paid for.

Career in brief

Enduvo (2023) — Led the 60-day pre-ATO migration of an immersive learning platform from Azure Kubernetes Service to AWS GovCloud serverless for a DoD customer. Solo engineer, end-to-end delivery, pre-ATO milestone met on schedule. The anchor case study walks through the details.
DocuSign / Liveoak Technologies — Led Site Reliability Engineering for the Remote Online Notary product line supporting Fortune 500 financial services clients. Built the SRE function from scratch during the Liveoak years; continued as team lead through the DocuSign acquisition. Production incident ownership, audit-driven platform engineering under SOC 2 and financial-services posture.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Lead Platform Engineer. Scientific and research computing infrastructure at national-lab scale, with the operational discipline that environment demands.
Financial services and fintech platform engineering — PCI DSS audit ownership (current, at Forward); SOC 2 and HIPAA posture work across multiple prior fintech platforms. Compliance-driven infrastructure fixes, audit evidence pipelines, and the boring-but-critical work of keeping production systems audit-ready year after year. HIPAA fluency transfers directly to VA work, where programs run under HIPAA by default.
U.S. Army — Enlisted service; honorable discharge.

Why the practice is solo

ACG is deliberately one engineer. Federal contracting often sells you a team of four where one person does the work and three sit in meetings. The practice exists to skip that markup — charge honestly, deliver directly. For engagements that legitimately need more hands, I bring in trusted peer contractors on a per-engagement basis, and they get paid directly, not through an agency layer.

This model doesn't scale to unlimited engagements, and that's the point. I take on a small number of concurrent clients where deep technical ownership matters more than headcount. If an engagement genuinely outgrows one engineer, standing up and leading a team isn't new — I built the SRE function at Liveoak and led platform teams at DocuSign and Indigo Tech. "Solo by default" is a choice, not a ceiling. But if you need a forty-person delivery team from day one, ACG isn't the fit — and I'll tell you that directly.

How to reach me

The fastest path is the contact form on the homepage or a direct email to joel@aegiscloudgroup.com. I answer my own inbox.