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