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Shaun Clarke.

DevOps engineering leader building secure AI and cloud infrastructure for breakthrough science.

Currently leading DevOps & AI platform at Eikon Therapeutics
Portrait of Shaun Clarke
Shaun Clarke Photographed, 2025
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Building the quiet infrastructure that lets discovery run loud.

I've spent more than fifteen years in IT, starting on Mount Sinai's surgical care floors, moving through enterprise clinical systems, and landing in the cloud where I now lead DevOps engineering for a drug discovery biotech.

Today I lead the team behind Eikon's platform and AI infrastructure. I built our on prem LLM serving platform, which gives engineers and scientists access to models on research data that never leaves our network, and I designed the secure agent runtime that lets AI agents run on top of it.

My focus now is turning AI governance into controls the infrastructure enforces, not just policies people are asked to follow. I map principles from ISO 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to technical controls such as approved and scanned agents, explicit access boundaries, logged model calls and agent handoffs, and the ability to revoke or stop any agent immediately.

I also care about what doesn't show up on dashboards, like the people I work with, the psychological safety that lets them ship with confidence, and the strategic calls made three quarters before anyone notices they were made.

  • A. AI Platform & LLM Infrastructure
  • B. Kubernetes, GitOps & Automation
  • C. Team Leadership & AI Governance
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From clinical floors to AI infrastructure.

  1. 2026 – Present Since Sep 2026
    Eikon Therapeutics

    Senior Manager, DevOps Engineering

    Leading the DevOps and platform team at a biotech that's applying super resolution microscopy and machine learning to drug discovery, and owning the AI platform that engineers and scientists build on.

    • Built Eikon's on prem LLM serving platform using vLLM on NVIDIA Grace Hopper and Blackwell GPUs, behind a LiteLLM gateway that serves five models to engineers and scientists without research data leaving the network.
    • Designed and built a secure agent runtime on gVisor and the Kubernetes Agent Sandbox. Each agent runs isolated with its own model credentials, can only reach the model gateway, collaborates with other agents through a registry, and can be revoked or stopped immediately. GitOps deploys an approved agent in under a minute.
    • Designed a tool gateway so agents never hold credentials or touch internal systems directly. The gateway decides which tools each agent may use, and network policy keeps agents from going around it. Recommended that internal systems be exposed to agents as MCP servers behind that gateway.
    • Took the MLOps platform from proof of concept to production in 2026 with a shared MLflow, a model registry as the handoff between teams, and KServe serving.
    • Drive AI tool standardization across the company, validating tools and clearing them through legal and infosec. Negotiated an AI governance license, and the LLM gateway offsets monthly Claude token spend.
    • vLLM
    • LiteLLM
    • Kubernetes
    • gVisor
    • ArgoCD
    • Vault
    • Leadership
  2. 2023 – 2026 3y 8m
    Eikon Therapeutics

    Manager, DevOps Engineering

    Led the DevOps function across CI/CD, cloud, high performance computing, and secrets management for engineering and research teams.

    • Cut build times from 45 minutes to 7 minutes by optimizing CI/CD build pipelines, and set the pipeline security standard with a base workflow that pipelines are adopting.
    • Built the AWS infrastructure for a batch pipeline that processes about one billion rows across 10 concurrent jobs, and deployed a vendor data platform on EKS with Terraform, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions.
    • Led the engineers who automated Linux provisioning with MAAS and run the Slurm HPC cluster.
    • AWS
    • Kubernetes
    • Terraform
    • GitHub Actions
    • Leadership
  3. 2022 – 2023 7m
    Eikon Therapeutics

    Staff DevOps Engineer

    Joined as founding DevOps hire. Helped to establish infrastructure patterns that scaled into a full engineering practice. Built a self service Windows imaging pipeline that cut microscope system provisioning from as long as two weeks to 30 minutes.

  4. 2021 – 2022 11m
    Scripps Health

    Systems Engineer

    Moved from application specialization into systems work for San Diego's largest integrated health network. Automated Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector rollout, updates, and rollback across our data centers, and cut a recurring job from 3 hours to 20 minutes by running its tasks concurrently.

  5. 2016 – 2021 5y 8m
    Scripps Health

    Specialist, Enterprise EHR

    Supported and extended the Epic electronic health record platform across Scripps' hospitals and clinics. Assisted in designing the HL7 integration between the perinatal monitoring system and Epic across four hospitals and fourteen clinics, and built a Python data pipeline during a company wide cyber incident that saved roughly a quarter million dollars in a single month.

  6. 2013 – 2016 3y 1m
    The Mount Sinai Hospital

    Application Analyst II

    Graduated into senior analyst responsibilities and served as technical lead for new implementations, guiding six junior analysts and owning project plans, architecture diagrams, and testing before go live across one of New York's flagship academic medical centers.

  7. 2010 – 2013 2y 4m
    The Mount Sinai Hospital

    Application Analyst I

    First role in enterprise application support, the foundation years of learning how large healthcare systems actually run.

  8. 2010 5m
    Twin America LLC

    Senior Desktop Support Analyst

    End user support for a New York tourism operator. Fast paced, high visibility, customer facing technology.

  9. 2008 – 2010 2y 6m
    Mount Sinai Health System

    Surgical Care Assistant

    Where it began. A reminder that every system I now architect is, somewhere at the end of it, supporting real people.

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A continuous investment in the craft.

Fifteen certifications across Kubernetes, cloud, infrastructure as code, and foundational IT, each listed with its current status.

/ 01

Containers & Orchestration

/ 02

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • Amazon Web Services Professional

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect

    Earned Sep 2022 · Expired Sep 2025
    NSDB4GQ2T214QX9W
  • Amazon Web Services Associate

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect

    Earned Jul 2022 · Expired Jul 2025
    GVQKSX4KQMRQQ73V
  • Microsoft Expert

    Azure Solutions Architect

    Earned Mar 2022 · Expired
    I174-0475
  • Microsoft Associate

    Azure Administrator

    Earned Mar 2022 · Expired
    I167-6513
  • Microsoft Associate

    Azure Network Engineer

    Earned Mar 2022 · Expired
    I188-8185
  • Microsoft Associate

    Azure Data Engineer

    Earned Mar 2022 · Expired
    I182-2041
  • Microsoft Foundational

    Azure Fundamentals

    Credential active
    I131-3882
/ 03

DevOps & Infrastructure as Code

  • HashiCorp Associate

    Terraform Associate

    Earned Jun 2022 · Expired
  • Microsoft Expert

    DevOps Engineer

    Earned Apr 2022 · Expired
    I214-3221
  • Microsoft Associate

    Identity & Access Administrator

    Earned Apr 2022 · Expired
    I222-1374
/ 04

Leadership & Foundational

  • The Leadership Edge Program

    Managing & Leading for Excellence

    Issued May 2023
  • CompTIA Foundational

    CompTIA A+

    Credential active
    COMP001008321515
  • CompTIA Foundational

    CompTIA Network+

    Credential active
    COMP001008321515
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A commitment to continuous learning.

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Let's talk about infrastructure,
AI platforms, or what you're building.