About 3 Hops Tech
3 Hops Tech helps teams design, secure, and operate AWS and Azure — remotely across the United States.
Who I Am
I'm Shane Schlabach, a cloud architect and engineer with over 12 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing production environments in AWS and Azure. I started out on a help desk and worked my way up through systems administration and infrastructure roles before finding what I actually wanted to do: building and running cloud environments that just work.
I focus on cloud architecture, migrations, and ongoing management: moving workloads to AWS or Azure, building new environments, and running existing ones day to day, from security and upgrades to cost and troubleshooting. Every recommendation balances security, cost, and long-term maintainability, with no unnecessary complexity. You get a clear plan and the hands to carry it out, working remotely with teams across the US.
Automation is at the center of how I work. I build CI/CD pipelines across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Bitbucket Pipelines. I containerize and orchestrate workloads to cut manual deployment steps down to a single, repeatable process. Every environment I touch gets deployed as code — Terraform or Bicep — so infrastructure changes are reviewed, versioned, and reproducible instead of living in someone's memory. If a deployment still involves someone clicking through a wizard at 11pm, I haven't finished my job yet.
When I'm not deep in a Terraform plan, you'll usually find me at the beach with my wife and son, cheering him on at a baseball or hockey game, or watching the Cleveland Guardians — hopefully alert-free, because the job was done right the first time.