Apurva Desai
I design and build resilient cloud infrastructure at AWS scale — from VPC architecture to multi-tier deployments, with a bias for operational excellence.
AWS Certifications
Cloud Engineering Expertise
Deep technical expertise in AWS infrastructure, networking, and enterprise-scale solutions
Network Architecture
- VPC design and multi-tier architectures
- Complex routing and subnet strategies
- ELB, ALB, and NLB configurations
- Route 53 DNS and routing policies
- VPN and Direct Connect implementations
Security & Compliance
- IAM policies and role-based access
- WAF and security group hardening
- CloudTrail and compliance monitoring
- Encryption at rest and in transit
- Security incident response
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform for multi-cloud deployments
- CloudFormation stack management
- CI/CD pipeline automation
- Configuration drift detection
- Blue-green deployment strategies
Performance & Cost
- CloudFront CDN optimization
- Auto Scaling and capacity planning
- Cost optimization and rightsizing
- Performance monitoring and tuning
- Reserved Instance strategies
About Me
Cloud engineer and infrastructure builder passionate about scalable solutions
Featured Projects
Showcasing my work in cloud architecture, machine learning, and product development
ME-CENTRAL-1 Incident Response AWS Work
March 2026 — Iranian drone strikes took two AWS UAE availability zones offline. As a Cloud Engineer at AWS I worked directly with enterprise customers on live workload migration, cross-region recovery, and KMS re-encryption across EC2, RDS, ECS, EKS, S3, and ElastiCache. A technical retrospective on what breaks, what holds, and what the shared responsibility model really means under physical infrastructure failure.
October 2025 DNS Cascade Incident AWS Work
A race condition in DynamoDB's internal DNS management system wiped all endpoint IPs from Route 53, cascading into EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, and NLB failures across us-east-1. 70,000+ organizations affected. A deep technical breakdown of the failure chain, DNS negative caching, congestive collapse, and what good DR looked like.
apurvad.xyz Infrastructure
Production-grade AWS infrastructure with EC2, VPC, ALB, WAF, CloudFront, and Route 53. Automated deployment with Terraform and secure configuration management.
Wine Quality Predictor
ML model achieving 87% accuracy in wine quality prediction using ensemble methods, feature engineering, and comprehensive data analysis with scikit-learn and XGBoost.
SmartDose IoT Platform
IoT medication management platform that secured $15K in funding. Full-stack development with React Native mobile app and comprehensive product strategy.
AI Governance Framework
Research framework for AI governance and ethical implementation in enterprise environments, focusing on responsible AI deployment strategies.
Technical Skills
Expertise across cloud platforms, development, and data science
Cloud & Infrastructure
Development
Data Science & ML
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