hey, it's alan! 👋

Cloud Engineer based in San Jose, CA

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner building and automating cloud infrastructure using CloudFormation, Terraform, and AWS CDK (Python / TypeScript)

Resume

Cloud Engineering Academy

Cloud Engineering Program

Nov 2024 - Present

•Building production-ready AWS infrastructure using CDK, CloudFormation, and Terraform
•Hands-on projects: IAM security, VPC architecture, serverless applications, CI/CD pipelines
•AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (May 2025-2028)

San Jose State University

B.S. in Finance

Aug 2018 - Dec 2021

•Foundation in financial analysis, forecasting, and business operations
•Developed enterprise-level cost management & resource allocation expertise
•Gained deep knowledge of risk assessment, compliance (Basel concepts), and audit trails

featured projects

Serverless Contact Form (Terraform)

Built a serverless contact form for a travel agency using Terraform. API Gateway receives submissions, Lambda stores inquiries in DynamoDB, and SES sends confirmation emails — 19 AWS resources deployed via IaC.

TerraformLambdaAPI GatewayDynamoDBSES

Source Article

YouTube AI Title Generator

Web app using TypeScript, YouTube Data API, and Groq AI—fetches video metadata and generates 4 AI-powered title variations with different tones.

TypeScriptYouTube APIGroq AIREST APIs

Source Article

Portfolio Site with CI/CD

Built and deployed a Next.js portfolio on AWS Amplify with CI/CD—configured automated deployments from GitHub using AWS CDK and stored credentials securely in AWS Secrets Manager.

AmplifyCDKNext.jsSecrets Manager

Source Article Website

Healthcare Infrastructure Migration

Migrated manual AWS infrastructure to IaC using AWS CDK with TypeScript—designed secure multi-tier VPC with public/private subnet isolation across 2 AZs, deployed EC2 and Multi-AZ RDS.

CDKTypeScriptVPCEC2RDS

Source Article

IAM Security Implementation

Comprehensive IAM security solution using CloudFormation, Terraform, and AWS CDK (Python)—established role-based access control for 4 teams with MFA enforcement and least-privilege policies.

IAMCloudFormationTerraformCDKPython

Source Article

hey, it's alan! 👋

Cloud Engineering Academy

San Jose State University

featured projects

Serverless Contact Form (Terraform)

YouTube AI Title Generator

Portfolio Site with CI/CD

Healthcare Infrastructure Migration

IAM Security Implementation

popular posts

Project: Creating 3 Architectures with Excalidraw

Project: S3 Static Website with CloudFormation