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Principal Cloud & AI Platform Architect

For CTOs, hiring managers, and recruiters screening for Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Platform Architect, DevOps Architect, GenAI Platform Architect, or Principal Platform Engineer roles.

Senior AWS Solutions Architect at ASTM International
Forward-deployed delivery model: embedded discovery, implementation, integration, rollout, adoption, and production ownership
LLM Infrastructure Trainer on Amazon IaC RLHF work
4x AWS Community Builder, renewed in 2026
IIT Roorkee PG Certificate in Agentic AI, GenAI & ML
InfraTales creator: production AWS fixes from real failures
Resume variants

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Forward Deployed Engineer Resume

Forward Deployed Engineer · Customer Engineer · Solutions Engineer · AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Customer-facing discovery, rapid implementation, AWS/GenAI integration, production debugging, and ownership through launch.

AWS Platform Architect Resume

AWS Platform Architect · Principal Cloud Engineer · AWS Solutions Architect · AWS DevOps Architect

AWS Professional certifications, IaC, cost control, reliability, and platform foundations that survive scale and audits.

AWS Solutions Architect Resume

AWS Solutions Architect · Cloud Solutions Architect · AWS Consultant · Presales / Delivery Solutions Architect

AWS Well-Architected reviews, client discovery, architecture trade-offs, FinOps, security baselines, and delivery ownership.

GenAI Platform Architect Resume

GenAI Platform Architect · RAG Production Readiness · AWS Bedrock Consultant · Applied AI Engineer

RAG, retrieval quality, evaluation, observability, cost per request, and controlled AI workflows on AWS Bedrock.

DevOps / Platform Engineer Resume

Principal Platform Engineer · DevOps Architect · Staff Backend/Cloud Engineer · SRE-leaning Platform Engineer

CI/CD, Terraform/CDK, rollback, observability, environments, and service ownership.

Experience timeline

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Senior AWS Solutions Architect (Consulting)

ASTM International · 2025 - Present

Forward-deployed with enterprise stakeholders to turn ambiguous cloud needs into end-to-end AWS architectures. Built reusable IaC with Terraform and CDK plus multi-account guardrails, cutting environment setup time by 70%. Reduced cloud spend about 20% through analytics-driven right-sizing.

LLM Infrastructure Trainer

Amazon (via Turing) · 2025 - 2026

Validated AI-generated AWS CDK and CloudFormation for security and cost on Amazon's IaC RLHF program. Built reusable TypeScript CDK constructs aligned with Well-Architected principles, cutting standardization time about 30%. Provided RLHF feedback that raised the quality of generated infrastructure code.

Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

NTT (Tokyo) · 2025

Short AWS platform contract in Tokyo. Supported NTT's cloud infrastructure initiatives in a customer-facing engineering capacity, contributing to AWS-based platform development for enterprise cloud capabilities.

Cloud & AI Career Coach (Part-time)

topmate.io · 2024 - 2026

1:1 mentoring for cloud professionals and engineers. Specialized in AWS Architecture, Cost Optimization, and guiding engineers transitioning to AI/ML and GenAI career paths.

Independent Cloud & AI Consultant

Freelance · 2023 - 2026

Forward-deployed into client problems: discovery, architecture review, implementation, and post-launch guidance. Designed serverless architectures with selected 30-40% operational cost reductions. Integrated LLM-powered features using AWS Bedrock for fintech and e-commerce platforms.

Lead Platform Engineer

ProdigyBuild · 2023 - 2025

Worked close to product and engineering users to architect a serverless SaaS platform using Python, Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB, achieving 99.9% availability and 40% cost reduction. Integrated AI agents for automated code generation.

SDE-II

ProtectOnce · 2022 - 2024

Built developer-first API security on AWS serverless. Developed Python backend services for automated threat detection and eBPF kernel-level agents for runtime protection. Shipped a React security dashboard with real-time threat visualization and improved deployment efficiency by 25% through CI/CD gates.

Certifications

AWS and platform credibility.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional badge

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Amazon Web Services · 2024

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional badge

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Amazon Web Services · 2024

AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional badge

AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional

Amazon Web Services · 2025

AWS Certified Developer - Associate badge

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

Amazon Web Services · 2023

HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate badge

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

HashiCorp · 2023

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