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Cloud Architect,
Systems Builder,
and AWS Engineer.

Sahithi Aekka

I design scalable cloud architectures and build production-ready systems on AWS using microservices, containers, and infrastructure as code.

sahithiaekka@gmail.com
AWS Terraform Docker ECS Fargate Python · Flask Bedrock DynamoDB API Gateway
3+
AWS Certifications
10+
Cloud Projects
99.9%
Uptime Designed For
Scale, By Design
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01 / About Me

I don't just deploy
to the cloud —
I make it think.

My path to cloud engineering wasn't a straight line. I started in a completely different field, then found myself drawn to the elegance of distributed systems — the idea that thousands of small, independent pieces could work together to do something neither could alone.

That cross-country move from India to the US — and an MS in Computer Science at the University of Michigan — sharpened how I think: not just about building systems, but about building systems that don't need you watching them.

Today I'm obsessed with the intersection of AI and cloud infrastructure — specifically, how to make intelligent systems reliable, scalable, and production-ready. If I do something twice, I've already written a script for it.

"If I had to do it twice, I've already scripted it."

— Engineering philosophy

2+
Years of industry
experience
22%
Compute cost reduction
@ TCS
45%
Faster release cycles
via CI/CD
99.95%
Uptime maintained
in production

How I work

Automate first — manual steps are bugs waiting to happen
Design for failure — assume things will break, build so they don't matter
Infrastructure is code — if it's not in version control, it doesn't exist
AI + cloud together — the most interesting problems live at that intersection

Core stack

AWS Kubernetes Terraform Docker Jenkins Python Apache Kafka ELK Stack Prometheus Grafana
02 / Certifications

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Built in production.

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03 / Projects

Systems built.
Problems solved.

Production-grade cloud architecture across microservices, AI, and infrastructure automation.

✦ Featured

02 — AI Infrastructure

Bedrock AI Agent

A serverless AI agent powered by AWS Bedrock and Lambda, with conversation state managed in DynamoDB. Designed for 99.99% availability using Route 53 failover and monitored end-to-end via CloudWatch — bridging foundation models with production cloud infrastructure.

Bedrock Lambda DynamoDB API Gateway Route 53 CloudWatch
Private Repo 🔒

03 — DevOps Automation

Terraform DevOps Pipeline

End-to-end CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline + CodeDeploy with blue-green deployment strategy. Infrastructure provisioned entirely via Terraform across EC2, Auto Scaling Groups, and ALB — multi-stage Docker builds improved build efficiency by 40%.

Terraform CodePipeline CodeDeploy EC2 + ASG Docker Blue-Green
Private Repo 🔒

04 — Cloud Architecture

AWS Static Web Platform

Globally distributed static platform on S3 + CloudFront benchmarking sub-100ms latency across multiple geographic regions. Serverless backend via API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB with Route 53 failover simulation achieving 99.99% availability design.

S3 CloudFront Lambda DynamoDB Route 53 CloudWatch
Private Repo 🔒

05 — Security Pattern

Secure Enclave Pattern

A cloud security architecture pattern implementing IAM least-privilege, network isolation via VPC + private subnets, and encrypted data pipelines. Built to demonstrate defense-in-depth principles for production workloads handling sensitive data.

IAM VPC KMS Security Groups CloudTrail AWS Config
Private Repo 🔒
04 / Experience

Where the work
got done.

2021 – 2022
TCS
2021
Netcracker
2024 – 2025
UMich Projects
Tata Consultancy Services India

DevOps Engineer

Jul 2021 – Dec 2022
22%
Cost
Reduction
45%
Faster
Releases
<30m
MTTR
Target
99.95%
Uptime
Maintained

Engineered high-availability AWS Linux workloads within hybrid cloud infrastructure, optimizing Kubernetes resource allocation to reduce compute costs by 22% while sustaining 99.95% uptime.

Automated deployments via Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and Git, reducing release cycle time by 45% across staging and production environments.

Implemented root-cause analysis using centralized ELK Stack logging, decreasing MTTR to under 30 minutes during high-severity incidents.

Enhanced distributed streaming via Apache Kafka on AWS-hosted clusters, reducing end-to-end event latency to under 200ms during peak transaction windows.

AWS EC2 Kubernetes Jenkins ELK Stack Apache Kafka Docker Linux
Netcracker Technology India

Cloud & DevOps Intern

Jan 2021 – Jun 2021
30%
Faster
Validations
18
Fewer defects
/ quarter
6h+
Manual work
saved / week

Provisioned development infrastructure using AWS EC2, S3, and IAM, enabling environment readiness within 2 hours for new project teams across multiple internal applications.

Containerized internal applications with Docker on Linux, eliminating environment drift and decreasing deployment-related defects by 18 tickets per quarter.

Implemented monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch and shell scripting, cutting manual health-check efforts by 6+ hours per week across shared development clusters.

AWS EC2 S3 IAM Docker Jenkins CloudWatch Shell Scripting
University of Michigan MS Computer Science

Graduate Cloud Projects

Aug 2024 – Mar 2025

Cloud Solutions Architect

Deployed microservices on ECS Fargate, automated CI/CD via CodePipeline + CloudFormation. 99.9% availability with Aurora PostgreSQL Multi-AZ.

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

Architected globally distributed static platform on S3 + CloudFront. Serverless backend with Lambda + DynamoDB, sub-100ms latency globally.

ECS Fargate CodePipeline CloudFormation Aurora PostgreSQL S3 + CloudFront Lambda Terraform
05 / Contact

Let's build
something
amazing.

Open to full-time roles, contract work, and interesting cloud infrastructure problems. If you're building something that needs to scale — I want to hear about it.

Email
sahithiaekka@gmail.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/sahithiaekka
GitHub
github.com/SahithiAekka
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Currently open to opportunities
Michigan, USA · Remote OK