§ 03 The practice

Family-built rigor. Named humans underneath.

DIAM is a solo-principal advisory. Every engagement is delivered and signed by Roland Rodriguez. No junior-analyst hand-off, no white-label subcontract, no marketing team. The practice serves small healthcare, CPA, and law-firm clients across the Coastal Bend — organizations that have historically been underserved by local IT providers and priced out of national MSPs.

§ 03 The practice

One principal.
Signs every deliverable.

Roland Rodriguez. United States Air Force veteran, Military Space Systems Operations. Principal Technical Product Manager at AWS, 2022–2024, responsible for the five-year Rust adoption strategy across infrastructure serving 300M+ customer accounts. Core team for the Azure v1 launch at Microsoft, 2009.

The practice is delivered not by a local IT shop that added "cybersecurity" to its services menu, but by a principal whose prior work sits inside the infrastructure small practices already depend on.

The company is named for my four children — Damian, Isabella, Abigail, Matilda. The logo is those letters in ASCII binary. Every deliverable ships with their names behind it.

§ 03.1 Career anchors
2022–2024

Amazon Web Services

Principal Technical Product Manager, Language & Platforms. Authored and led the five-year Rust adoption strategy for Amazon and AWS; work touched infrastructure serving 300 million+ customer accounts. Member of the Document Bar Raisers leadership team (Amazon's writing-culture program, 1M+ employees). Passed both the Principal Engineer technical and business interviews.

2004–2015

Microsoft / Avanade

Core team member for the Azure v1 launch (2009). Co-author of the first official Azure certification exams (one of twelve authors). Chief Architect for government telecommunications SOA platforms on three continents — Telstra (Australia), Turkcell (Turkey), Comcast (United States) — each serving millions of users.

Ongoing

Independent open-source and research

Author of rusty-paseto, an open-source Rust implementation of the PASETO secure-token protocol, used by the Atuin project (20,000+ GitHub stars). Two arXiv publications on multi-agent coordination and cryptographically-attested agent identity.

Earlier

United States Air Force

Military Space Systems Operations. The discipline a small practice actually hires for.