Berg Atkinson.

Berg is the founder of Wolfberg LLC. 25 years in defense, intelligence, commercial, and international environments. Retired from Leidos in May 2026 after a long career building, advising, and aligning at the altitude where decisions become irreversible. He started as a Korean cryptologic linguist in the U.S. Air Force — Defense Language Institute trained, deployed operationally on intelligence missions — and never quite stopped operating in environments where clarity of thought and earned trust matter more than rank or title.

He led the Army's first on-premises to AWS classified cloud migration end-to-end. Directed advanced internal R&D as a Principal Investigator. Served as Chief Engineer for the Air Force ABMS Digital Infrastructure Consortium, aligning government and industry partners across a $4B portfolio. Spent the last several years as Senior Solutions Architect to multiple Sector CTOs at Leidos, advising on enterprise technology and investment decisions across $11B+ in business.

Spent the last decade-plus on a soapbox: nobody is using cloud right. Lift-and-shift was never cloud-native — it was just someone else's data center with a markup. EC2 pretending to be servers, RDS pretending to be Oracle, Kubernetes clusters running 24/7 to host workloads that get traffic eight hours a day. An entire industry built legacy patterns on cloud infrastructure and called it transformation.

Then he stopped talking and built the receipts. A production AI-native operational platform — real customers, real load — built solo in 41 hours, for $40 in API costs. Cost basis at scale: a fraction of one percent of what Salesforce or ServiceNow charges for the same workflows. Scales to a million users with four code changes, no re-architecture. There is no secret. It is AWS used the way AWS was designed to be used. Almost nobody does it.

Berg holds a B.S. in Business (Organizational Leadership) and an M.S. in Information Technology Management, both completed with distinction. Member of American Mensa. Grew up in Norfolk, Virginia — the son of a pioneering oceanographer — surrounded by researchers and serious thinkers from an early age, an environment that shaped how he approaches problems to this day.

He lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Maggie and two daughters. Outside of work, he collects antique Japanese swords and fine wine, smokes a considerable amount of meat, and travels extensively. He started a music degree once — viola, at ODU — before the Air Force intervened. He generally prefers things that require patience, craft, and judgment.

Wine nerd. Meat smoker. Girl Dad. I drink and I know things.