A decade of engineering enterprise systems, under one roof.
Bolden Technology Group is led by Managing Member and Principal Architect Joshua A. Bolden, who brings over 10 years of hands-on experience supporting Robins Air Force Base and enterprise clients. Under his direction, the company builds secure hybrid cloud systems, integrates legacy infrastructure, automates DevSecOps pipelines, and applies generative AI where it solves a defined operational problem — engineered from the outset to pass DoD security review.
Secure application services delivery, prioritizing reliability and strict access control.
Academic Background
Joshua holds three concurrent Master's degrees — Cybersecurity, Software Development, and Supply Chain Management — a multi-disciplinary foundation that carries directly into the company's approach to systems integration and cloud security.
Full-stack architecture, API design, and algorithms
Zero Trust standards, system hardening, and cryptography
Resource scheduling, SAP integration, and logistics flow
Career Record
Ten years of systems engineering work for defense contractors and enterprise clients, most of it at Robins Air Force Base.
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Technical Proficiencies
Generative AI & LLM Prompting · AI Integrations (OpenAI/Gemini APIs) · Python for Data Analysis · Model Evaluation
Python · JavaScript (Node.js, React, React Native) · PowerShell · Bash · YAML · JSON · XML
Azure DevOps · GitHub Actions · QuickBuild · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · Ansible · RHEL · IIS · Deployment Automation · CI/CD Pipelines
Enterprise Integration Architecture · REST APIs · SAP ECC · SAP S/4HANA · API Gateways · Distributed Systems · Interoperability · Service Bus · Message Queuing
ETL Pipelines · Data Extraction · Data Transformation · Data Loading · Source-to-Target Mapping · Data Validation · Data Reconciliation · Incremental Data Processing
AWS · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud Platform · Platform One · Cloud One · Hybrid Systems · DevSecOps · High Availability
Splunk · Dynatrace · Logging & Alerting · Observability Frameworks · Root Cause Analysis (RCA) · Performance Tuning · Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
SDLC · Software Design · Requirements Analysis · Verification & Validation · Release Management · Agile / Scrum · Defect Analysis
Work History
7 RolesSystems Architect
- •Provide strategic advice, technical guidance, and architectural governance for the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS), driving systems engineering and infrastructure modernization initiatives.
- •Manage and oversee on-premises infrastructure, including hosted virtual environments, workstations, and Cross Domain Solutions (CDS).
- •Lead architectural governance to ensure open, responsive, and Agile engineering solutions that align with system modernization efforts and mission-critical workflows.
- •Coordinate with analysts and sustainment teams to validate operational workflows, demonstration threads, and CONOPS across the software and hardware baseline.
- •Plan and conduct design reviews for maintenance releases, modifications, end-of-life replacements, hardware refreshes, and cyber patching.
- •Support the enterprise transition to modern systems engineering tools and practices, including virtualization platforms and infrastructure standardization.
- •Conduct trade-off studies to identify the most advantageous technical approach for resolving engineering change issues.
- •Enforce Configuration Management (CM) processes and lead technical reviews of Software Change Requests (SCRs).
Principal Architect - Cloud Systems
- •Design and deploy enterprise cloud architectures and secure system integrations supporting high-availability workloads.
- •Integrate containerized applications and explore initial implementation of Generative AI API integrations (e.g. OpenAI/Gemini/local LLM endpoints).
- •Develop scalable data pipelines for systems telemetry, supporting continuous extraction, validation, and analytics delivery.
- •Automate configuration, provisioning, and host infrastructure using Ansible across Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments.
- •Author declarative Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates to enable repeatable, multi-cloud, zero-trust deployments.
- •Establish enterprise monitoring, log aggregation, and real-time alerting interfaces to support operational health and SRE initiatives.
- •Pioneer the modernization of monolithic legacy systems into cloud-native microservices and secure, containerized processing systems.
- •Collaborate directly with engineering leads and federal stakeholders to define architecture standards, security baselines, and data integration strategies.
Business Intelligence Architect
Enterprise Architect
Principal Systems Analyst
Operations Specialist (SAP Cloud-Supply Chain Integration)
Production Supervisor / Team Leader
Education
Seven Degrees
Spanning supply chain, software development, cybersecurity, and music.