about
Cloud engineer with a networking and security background — Load Balancing,
Web Application Firewall, anti-DDoS, and network support engineering. I build
automated monitoring and infrastructure-as-code on AWS, validate security
posture against CIS and OWASP benchmarks, and ship products to new regions
through automated pipelines.
skills
Python
TypeScript
AWS
AWS CDK / IaC
Load Balancing
Web Application Firewall
Anti-DDoS
Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, VLANs)
CloudWatch monitoring
CI/CD & CodeDeploy
Docker
Ansible
Wireshark / tshark
Bash
Linux
experience
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System Development Engineer
Aug 2021 — Present
Amazon Web Services
- Designed and implemented automated solutions to detect customer network packet loss and troubleshoot issues in real time, significantly reducing troubleshooting time.
- Built infrastructure-as-code with AWS CDK, cutting manual configuration time by 70%.
- Created canaries with CloudWatch Logs and monitoring dashboards to detect issues faster.
- Ran security validations against CIS benchmarks and OWASP Top 10, improving product posture and reducing vulnerabilities.
- Automated product launch and deployment with pipelines and CodeDeploy, enabling efficient launches into new regions.
Cloud Support Engineer — Networking
Feb 2017 — Aug 2021
Amazon Web Services
- Subject-matter expert in AWS networking, Web Application Firewall, and Elastic Load Balancing — troubleshooting and architecting customer networks with efficiency.
- Created an onboarding plan and hands-on sandboxes to ramp new engineers on core skills.
- Ran technical trainings and networking events to grow the local community's technical skill set.
projects
kirubhashankar.online
2026
personal · AWS + CDK
- Cognito-gated React SPA + public site, fully infrastructure-as-code (CDK), CloudFront + S3 with OAC and a strict CSP.
- Self-mutating CodePipeline; per-push deploys with a unit-test gate.
certifications
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education
M.S. in Computer Engineering
Jan 2015 — Dec 2016
Illinois Institute of Technology
- Coursework: Computer Networks, Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, Network Security.