Joshua Fox
Senior Cloud Architect II
Experienced Cloud Architect
Joshua Fox has been a software architect in innovative technology companies for 20 years. Now, he advises tech startups and growth companies on architecture and cost optimization for Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services; also publishing articles, and speaking to cloud engineers.
He has a PhD from Harvard University and a BA in math from Brandeis.
- Architecture
- Finops
- GCP
- AWS
My Certifications
AWS Black Belt, AI/ML
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Feb 27, 2021)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Jan 24, 2026)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Jan 24, 2026)
Google Cloud Authorized Trainer
Google (last renewed/obtained: Oct 2, 2020)
Google Cloud Certified Professional Google Workspace Administrator
Google (last renewed/obtained: Dec 23, 2024)
Google Cloud Developer Expert
Google (last renewed/obtained: Aug 11, 2022)
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Google (last renewed/obtained: Oct 18, 2025)
What my customers say
thank you for your help
cycognito.com · Apr 2026
Talks I've given
Outside Advisors: Empowering Your Team While Retaining Ownershi
L8 Conference (also DevOpsDays Vilna, Kubernetes Users Group, Singapore) · Warsaw, Poland · Mar 16, 2025
Cloud MLOps for Speed and Efficiency,
DevFest Bucharest (also SREDay Loondon & Paris) · Bucharest, Romania · Nov 13, 2024
Untangling the Tangled Cloud: Defining Cloud Boundaries
USENIX SRECon Singapore (also DevOpsDays Tel Aviv) · Singapore · May 12, 2026
Black-Box Optimization with Vertex AI Vizier
Google Israel Cloud Summit (also Google DevZone Day at Google Tel Aviv, Google Atlantis Summit, GeeCON Prague, DevFest Zagreb) · Tel Aviv, Israel · May 12, 2026
No WAFs: Don’t Use a Web Application Firewall, and When You Should, Anyway
BSides Strasbourg (also at Conf42) · Strasbourg, France · Jun 18, 2024
Level 7 Egress Control: Just Now Emerging in Kubernetes
SREcon Dublin (also DevOpsDays Vilna, DevOpsDays Ukraine, Kubernasties Tel Aviv. · Dublin, Ireland · Oct 11, 2023
Multitenant Inference Architecture with SageMaker Endpoints
Multicloud Engineering · Tel Aviv · May 12, 2026
Controlling Cloud Costs: Where to Start, and Where to Go from There
StackOverflow Podcast · Mar 27, 2024