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Patrick “Wiloak” Wilson
I go by Wiloak now — earlier work and publications are under Wilson.
Solutions Architect & AI Engineer · ex-AWS · NYC
777 GitHub stars across 9 open-source projects in OSINT, AI and cloud →
Live products from Nobler Works
I design and ship cloud and AI systems, and I'm as comfortable in the business case as in the CLI. By day I'm a Solutions Architect at Strategic Communications, a Louisville-based IT, cloud and cybersecurity provider to the public sector, covering large territories with responsibility for revenue. I also co-run Nobler Works, a software studio shipping its own AI products and builds for clients. Before both, I spent 3.5 years at AWS driving public-sector modernization for federal partners and Fortune 100 customers.
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How I Got a Job in Big Tech - Ex-AWS Solutions Architect
Hello World: My Name is Pat
I Interviewed with SpaceXAI
Cloud Architecture and Technical Whiteboarding
Become a Full Stack DevOps AI Cloud Engineer Wizard
Welcome to gitGood.dev
How to Properly Train for Distance Running
How To Not Get Hurt Running
Gobekli Tepe: The Site Rewriting Human History
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Interactive Geospatial
A chat-driven map: ask in plain language and the agent draws the answer on the map through tool calls.
Amazon Bedrock tool use · MapLibre GL · AWS Location
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Security Operations Agent
An AI analyst that plots simulated security operations on the map and answers threat and risk questions.
Amazon Bedrock · agent tool calls · MapLibre GL
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Pat's AI Assistant: "Patricia"
Answers questions about Pat's career, experience and running, grounded in a curated persona rather than free-form guessing.
Claude on Amazon Bedrock · prompt caching · rate-limited guest access
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Multi-Agent Cabinet
A Presidential Cabinet Situation Room: specialist agents work a scenario in phases and finish with a briefing.
Multi-agent orchestration · Claude on Amazon Bedrock
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30 tools, 10 projects // point at either side
- front-end/
- back-end/
- data/
- cloud-devops/
- ai/
- testing/
- games/
$ ls ~/projects
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62 certifications & accreditations // 8 issuers, 2019–2026
AWS
14- >Solutions Architect - Professional2023
- >Generative AI Developer - Professional2026
- >DevOps Engineer - Professional2026
- >Security - Specialty2026
- >Machine Learning - Specialty2023
- >Database - Specialty2023
- >Solutions Architect - Associate2020
- >Developer - Associate2022
- >SysOps Administrator - Associate2025
- >Machine Learning Engineer - Associate2025
- >Data Engineer - Associate2026
- >CloudOps Engineer - Associate2025
- >AI Practitioner2024
- >Cloud Practitioner2019
Google Cloud
3- >Generative AI Leader2025
- >Cloud Digital Leader2025
- >Associate Cloud Engineer2025
Microsoft Azure
2- >Azure AI Fundamentals2025
- >Azure Fundamentals2024
Data & Analytics
5- >SnowPro Associate: Platform (Snowflake)2026
- >Databricks Fundamentals Accreditation2026
- >Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals2026
- >Databricks Platform Administrator2026
- >Splunk Accredited Technical Selling Foundations2026
Anthropic
18- >Claude 101
- >Claude Code 101
- >Claude Code in Action
- >Building with the Claude API
- >Introduction to Model Context Protocol
- >Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics
- >Introduction to subagents
- >Introduction to agent skills
- >Introduction to Claude Cowork
- >Claude in Amazon Bedrock
- >Claude with Google Cloud's Vertex AI
- >AI Capabilities and Limitations
- >AI Fluency Framework & Foundations
- >Teaching the AI Fluency Framework
- >AI Fluency for educators
- >AI Fluency for students
- >AI Fluency for nonprofits
- >AI Fluency for Small Businesses
Elastic
9- >Fundamentals Accredited
- >Accredited Partner Solutions Architect
- >Accredited Sales Engineer: Search
- >Accredited Sales Engineer: Observability
- >Accredited Sales Engineer: Security
- >Accredited Sales Specialist: Search
- >Accredited Sales Specialist: Observability
- >Accredited Sales Specialist: Security
- >Accredited Sales Specialist: GenAI
AWS Partner & Programs
7- >Well-Architected Proficient2022
- >AWS Tech U Graduate2022
- >Partner: Accreditation (Technical)2022
- >Partner: Accreditation (Business)2022
- >Partner: Cloud Economics Accreditation2022
- >Partner: SAP on AWS (Technical)2022
- >Partner: SAP on AWS (Business)2022
Professional
4- >Pragmatic Marketing Certified - Level 3
- >Meeting Facilitation (LinkedIn)2022
- >Managing Meetings (LinkedIn)2022
- >RIPE Database (RIPE NCC)
<ARCHITECTURE/><SYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE/>
- A page view
Visitor CloudFront S3 (React build)
- AI chat
Visitor CloudFront API Gateway Lambda · chat Amazon Bedrock
- Contact form
API Gateway Lambda · contact DynamoDB + SES mail
- Training log
EventBridge (daily) Lambda · Strava sync Strava API DynamoDB Lambda · feed Visitor
- Maps
Visitor Cognito guest credentials AWS Location
- When it breaks
Browser / CSP errors Lambda · reports CloudWatch alarm SNS Email
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Moving a live site from CDK to Terraform without recreating anything
How this site's AWS stack moved from CDK to Terraform by importing every resource, and the two traps that could have emptied the production bucket.
Prompt caching on a public chat endpoint: what a load test taught me
A load test of the Patricia assistant on this site showed most of each call's cost was the same instructions, resent every time. Caching them on Amazon Bedrock fixed it.
Query Heterogeneous Data Sources through AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs
Learn how to query multiple data sources using AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs to create unified data access patterns for your applications.
By Pat Wiloak (formerly Wilson), Brian Smitches, and Nick Kniveton
Using Task-Specific Models from AI21 Labs on AWS
Explore how to leverage AI21 Labs task-specific models on AWS infrastructure for enhanced business operations and improved AI accuracy.
By Pat Wiloak (formerly Wilson), Joe Wilson, and Josh Famestad