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AWS Solutions Architect = cloud-scale storyteller who turns white-square diagrams into multi-AZ, auto-healing, budget-aware architectures. Deep fluency in 50+ services: EC2, Lambda, RDS, Dynamo, S3, CloudFront, VPC, ALB, KMS, Step Functions, EventBridge. Well-Architected 5 pillars: cost, security, reliability, performance, ops. 10 yrs, 120+ launches, 4 certs (SAA, SAP, SOA, DOP). Cut infra spend 42 % with Graviton + Spot + Savings Plans, 0.9999 availability. IaC: CDK/Terraform. Ping me when traffic spikes at 3 a.m.
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20 weeks
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