About Me
Cloud Engineer with hands-on experience resolving 400+ production incidents for Fortune 500 companies across AWS networking infrastructure. Reduced customer costs by $28K+ annually through architectural optimizations. Built training curriculum adopted by 10+ engineers.
Certifications
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
Technical Expertise
| Cloud & Infrastructure | Networking & Security | Development |
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| AWS (VPC, EC2, Lambda, EKS, S3, RDS, CloudFormation) | Transit Gateway, Network Firewall, NAT Gateway | Python, Bash, JavaScript, C++ |
| Route 53, WAF, Direct Connect, PrivateLink | TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, VPN, SSL/TLS | Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes |
| CloudWatch, IAM, Fault Injection Simulator | Wireshark, tcpdump, VPC Flow Logs | Git, CI/CD, REST APIs |
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - B.S. Computer Science (May 2025)
Coursework: Computer Networks, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Machine Learning, Database Systems
Experience
Amazon Web Services
Cloud Engineer - Networking | June 2025 - Present
92% five-star CSAT | 159% resolution targets
- Architected hub-and-spoke solution implementing centralized Network Firewall inspection; configured Transit Gateway appliance mode, stateful rule groups with Suricata syntax, and symmetric routing across 3 AZs
- Identified $2,400/month cost savings by analyzing VPC Flow Logs to trace 1.2TB/day NAT Gateway traffic; recommended PrivateLink architecture reducing cross-AZ data transfer
- Led Sev1 incident response for EKS cluster connectivity failure; correlated CloudWatch Logs with VPC Flow Logs to isolate Network Firewall drop action within 45 minutes
- Created WAF training labs for SQLi tuning, rate-based rules, and bot mitigation; curriculum adopted by 10+ engineers reducing onboarding time 30%
- Authored 15+ knowledge base articles on Network Firewall rule evaluation, NAT Gateway optimization, and Transit Gateway routing
Cloud Engineer Intern - Analytics | Summer 2023
- Resolved production cases for Athena, Glue, and Cognito - query optimization (45min to 3min), ETL memory allocation, cross-account IAM trust policies
- Deployed multi-region 3-tier application with Route 53 health checks, Auto Scaling, RDS Multi-AZ; validated 15-minute RTO using Fault Injection Simulator
- Built serverless text-to-speech app using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SNS with X-Ray tracing
Becht Engineering
Software Engineering Intern | Summer 2022
- Rebuilt analytics platform for 15+ refinery sites; optimized LINQ queries reducing page load from 8s to 1.2s for 500+ concurrent users
- Delivered 73% traffic increase via ASP.NET Core dashboards with drill-down filtering
Projects
Personal Project | 2025
Multi-tier architecture: CloudFront → ALB → EC2 with S3 failover origin, WAF protection, CloudWatch alarms + SNS alerts, and all 6 Route 53 routing policies. Over-engineered for learning enterprise patterns.
Project Lead - University of Michigan | 2023-2024
1 of 10 projects selected for $15K funding from 50+ submissions. React Native + Node.js + DynamoDB + ESP32 achieving <500ms BLE latency.
Operator ICT - Prague | Summer 2024
Governance framework for City of Prague analyzing 12 smart city implementations. $200K-$1.2M roadmaps presented to city CTO.
Machine Learning | Spring 2024
CatBoost model on 130K reviews achieving 98% accuracy. SHAP analysis + Streamlit deployment.
Contact
Location: Houston, TX
Email: apurvad@umich.edu