Peter M. O’Donnell

Peter M. O’Donnell is an AWS Principal Solutions Architect, specializing in security, risk, and compliance with the Strategic Accounts team. He has been an AWS SA for almost ten years and he supports some of AWS’s largest and most complex strategic customers in security and security-related topics, including data protection, cryptography, identity, threat modeling, compliance, security culture, CISO engagement, and more.

A former Unix sysadmin turned risk management consultant, Peter joined AWS as an enterprise solutions architect in 2015 and was dedicated to a major US bank to support their journey to go all-in on the cloud. In 2019, he transitioned to a security specialist SA role with the AWS Strategic Accounts group where he has built deep technical relationships with security teams and CISOs helping to keep them safe and secure on AWS. He has passed the Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, and Security Specialty AWS certification exams and he also received a bachelor of science in computer information systems from American University and an MBA from George Washington University.