Cloud Solutions Architect
Amazon
2019 - 2020
Seattle, WA
Architected scalable cloud solutions and AI-powered systems for enterprise clients. Specialized in serverless architectures and machine learning pipeline optimization.
Technologies Used
AWSLambdaSageMakerDynamoDBAPI GatewayCloudFormationPythonServerless
Project Overview
As a Cloud Solutions Architect at Amazon, I designed and implemented scalable cloud solutions for enterprise clients, with a focus on serverless architectures and AI-powered systems. My work involved optimizing machine learning pipelines and creating cost-effective, high-performance solutions that could scale to serve millions of users.
Key Challenges
- •Designing systems to handle massive scale (10M+ users) with consistent performance
- •Optimizing costs while maintaining high availability and performance standards
- •Integrating complex AI/ML workflows into existing enterprise systems
- •Ensuring security and compliance across multi-tenant architectures
- •Managing data pipelines processing terabytes of information daily
Solutions Implemented
- •Architected serverless-first solutions using AWS Lambda and API Gateway for automatic scaling
- •Implemented SageMaker-based ML pipelines for real-time inference at scale
- •Created event-driven architectures using DynamoDB Streams and EventBridge
- •Built Infrastructure as Code templates using CloudFormation for repeatable deployments
- •Designed cost optimization strategies through intelligent resource provisioning
Impact & Results
- •Successfully scaled systems to handle 10M+ daily active users with 99.99% uptime
- •Reduced infrastructure costs by 40% through serverless architecture optimization
- •Improved ML model inference time from seconds to milliseconds
- •Enabled enterprise clients to process and analyze 10TB+ of data daily
- •Achieved 50% faster time-to-market for new feature deployments
Key Lessons Learned
- •Serverless architectures provide excellent scalability but require careful cost monitoring
- •Event-driven design patterns are crucial for building resilient, decoupled systems
- •ML pipeline optimization requires understanding both the algorithms and infrastructure
- •Cost optimization is as important as performance optimization in cloud architectures