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Portrait of Miles Collier

Founder & Chief Engineer

Miles Collier

Sr. Principal DevOps Architect

About Miles

I architect and scale cloud infrastructure, lead SRE initiatives, and build data platforms that process trillions of events. I’ve driven DevOps transformations, implemented GenAI-powered systems, and led teams delivering mission-critical solutions.

As the founder of Icarus, I help organizations modernize their cloud infrastructure, implement reliable systems, and build engineering cultures that thrive.

Years of experience
10+
Certifications
4
Cloud platforms
3

Areas of expertise

The tools and practices behind a decade of production systems.

  • DevOps

    Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Spinnaker, ArgoCD, Helm, Docker

  • SRE

    SLOs and SLIs, Kubernetes, incident response, runbooks, capacity planning

  • Data

    BigQuery, Looker, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, dbt, Airflow

  • GenAI

    Vertex AI, BQML, LLMs, RAG, model serving, MLOps

  • Observability

    Grafana, ELK, Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry

  • Security

    CIS Benchmarks, Zero Trust, secret management, SOC 2

  • Mobile

    Firebase, Firestore, Auth, Cloud Functions, Capacitor, Vue

  • Leadership

    Team building, mentorship, architecture reviews, roadmaps

Certifications

  • Terraform Associate
  • AWS Solutions Architect
  • GCP Data Engineer
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner

Cloud platforms

Consulting experience with teams at

  • Google
  • Netflix
  • Equifax
  • Equinox
  • dentsu

Experience of Icarus team members, including work performed in prior roles and through partner firms. Company names are trademarks of their respective owners, used only to describe that experience. Their use does not imply endorsement of, or affiliation with, Icarus, Inc.

Let’s work together.

Cloud architecture, DevOps transformation, or an SRE practice from scratch. Tell me what you’re building.

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