Designing Device Onboarding with AWS IoT JITP
A practical look at provisioning fleets at scale with Just-in-Time Provisioning — when it fits, where it breaks, and how to keep certificate lifecycles sane.
IoT Architect & Platform Engineer
> I design cloud-native systems for connected devices and large-scale telemetry — from device onboarding and ingestion to multi-tenant platforms and the pipelines that move millions of events.
Writing
A practical look at provisioning fleets at scale with Just-in-Time Provisioning — when it fits, where it breaks, and how to keep certificate lifecycles sane.
Choosing an ingestion protocol is a tradeoff between battery, latency, intermittency, and the operational reality of running a broker. A pragmatic comparison.
Wiring an IoT rule straight into a database is the fastest demo and the slowest outage. A look at backpressure, coupling, and the buffer you skipped.
Selected Work
A cloud-native platform for ingesting, processing, and surfacing telemetry from connected devices — built to scale in device count and message rate without re-architecting the hot path.
A system for managing device fleets at scale — health, configuration, and remote operations — backed by a high-throughput telemetry pipeline.
A lightweight actor-style runtime for modeling per-device state and behavior as isolated, event-driven units — making concurrency and lifecycle tractable at fleet scale.
An automated pipeline for bringing devices from manufacture to managed — identity, certificates, and policy provisioned just-in-time, with the full lifecycle designed up front.
Capabilities
Where I work most — across device, edge, and cloud — for connected products that have to be reliable, secure, and operable at scale.
Contact
I take on architecture and platform work for IoT and telemetry-heavy systems. If that sounds like your problem, let's talk.