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Example profile Special Operations Aviation TS/SCI with CI polygraph (current) Available: 30 days

SOF Intelligence Analyst → Data Architect, Cleared

Reference BPS-CIADA

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Track record since leaving service

Four years building the data platform for a defense technology company through Series B to Series D, arriving as the second data hire and leaving as the architect of a lakehouse serving 40 analysts and three government programs. Designed the ingest and retention model that carried the company through its first FedRAMP Moderate authorization without a single control finding against the data layer. Fourteen years in Army Special Operations Aviation as an intelligence technician, which is where the instinct for what an analyst actually needs at three in the morning comes from — and why the platform gets used rather than worked around.

Certifications

  • AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
  • CISSP

Why we represent this candidate

Every candidate we put forward has cleared three filters, not one: academic achievement, service in U.S. Special Operations, and a documented commercial record after separating. This profile is here because all three are verified — the third is the one most veteran-hiring pipelines never check.

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