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Shiv Bhuvanapalli

Ashburn,VA

Summary

AWS Certified software Architect specializing in building mission critical solutions with expertise in using various AWS services to create scalable back-ends and RESTful API services. Proficient in building Landing zones. Skilled in Continuous Integration and Delivery, with experience in software and infrastructure automation. Seasoned Delivery Architect with a proven record in managing complex projects, improving delivery efficiency and ensuring timely delivery. Strong emphasis on customer obsession, earning customer trust and leadership skills. Notable impact on increasing customer satisfaction and reducing costs through strategic planning and effective communication.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Consultant / Senior CDA/DPM

Amazon Inc.
Herndon, VA
01.2018 - Current

Delivery Practice Manager - Army Practice (Current Role)

  • Lead AWS Professional Services practice for U.S. Army sector, managing delivery excellence across 20+ projects
  • Provide technical oversight and architectural guidance for complex cloud transformation initiatives
  • Drive technical quality assurance and best practices across project deliverables
  • Establish architectural patterns and delivery frameworks for government cloud initiatives
  • Strategic planning of cloud adoption roadmaps for Army customers
  • Mentor team of 14 cloud architects and consultants on advanced AWS architectures

Customer Delivery Architect (2022-2024)

  • Designed complex solutions leveraging AWS Control Tower, Landing Zone, and Organizations for multi-account DoD environments
  • Architected zero-trust security frameworks using AWS IAM, Guard Duty, Security Hub, and AWS RAM
  • Led technical direction for mission-critical workloads across AWS GovCloud and C2S/SC2S regions
  • Implemented enterprise-wide container strategies using EKS/ECS, service mesh, and GitOps practices
  • Designed event-driven architectures using AWS EventBridge, SNS/SQS, and Lambda for classified workloads
  • Created hybrid connectivity solutions using Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, and Site-to-Site VPN with redundancy
  • Architected large-scale data lake implementations using Lake Formation, Glue, EMR, and Redshift

Senior Consultant (2018-2022)

  • Implemented multi-region active-active architectures with Route 53 health checks and Global Accelerator
  • Built serverless patterns using Step Functions, Lambda, API Gateway with custom authorizers and WAF
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline, CodeBuild with custom build environments
  • Created reference architectures for containerized microservices using EKS with service mesh (App Mesh/Istio)
  • Designed secure data processing frameworks using KMS encryption, S3 Object Lambda, and VPC endpoints
  • Implemented automated compliance controls using AWS Config, Security Hub, and custom remediation

AWS lead Architect

TPGS Inc.
06.2017 - 01.2018
  • Used Terraform, Ansible and AWS APIs to Automate Infrastructure and Software Delivery.

Lead Architect

Oteemo Inc
05.2016 - 06.2017
  • Provided a Solution to integrate a custom-built calendar to Office 365
  • Also, provided integration with mobile component and sync back using Webhooks.

Senior Architect

The Washington Post
01.2003 - 05.2016
  • Guidepost Mobile is a Office Peer network app which interacts with MS Outlook and LDAP to provide a one stop mobile solution
  • As an architect for this initiative, implemented Code Deploy and continuous integration.
  • Integrated DSI with Glassfish for IVR integration, leveraging existing WLI SOAP services.
  • As the architect for PostPic, I utilized CloudSearch to search through a vast repository of over 3 million pictures.

Global Computer Enterprises
09.2002 - 01.2003
  • Large Unit Financial system (LUFS) is a financial system used by US Coastguard to keep track of products and finances both on shore and in the ship
  • Developed interfaces between LUFS and other Web-based applications using Java/XML
  • Was one of the key developers for LUFS2GO
  • This was an Oracle lite based application which was designed to be used on Cutters (ships) when they are at sea.

PowerSolv Inc
08.1996 - 09.2002
  • Worked as a Consultant on very large Oracle Implementations as an Oracle DBA and SQL Developer.

Education

MS - Engineering

West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
01.2001

B.Tech - Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi
India
05-1994

Skills

  • AWS Certified Software Architect
  • CloudFormation and CDK
  • NoSQL databases
  • RESTful API services
  • Web-based front-ends
  • CI/CD practices
  • REST and Angular
  • Nodejs development
  • MongoDB management
  • AWS serverless tools
  • ElasticSearch and CloudSearch
  • Hadoop clusters management
  • Jenkins automation
  • Kubernetes orchestration
  • Ansible configuration management
  • Advanced networking solutions
  • AWS security services
  • Container orchestration with ECS/EKS
  • Serverless architecture design
  • DevSecOps practices and tools
  • Storage solutions with S3 and EFS
  • Database management with Aurora and DynamoDB
  • Analytics tools: EMR, Redshift, Athena

Certification

  • AWS Solutions Architect (Associate)
  • Security +
  • AWS Security certification (Speciality)

Timeline

Senior Consultant / Senior CDA/DPM

Amazon Inc.
01.2018 - Current

AWS lead Architect

TPGS Inc.
06.2017 - 01.2018

Lead Architect

Oteemo Inc
05.2016 - 06.2017

Senior Architect

The Washington Post
01.2003 - 05.2016

Global Computer Enterprises
09.2002 - 01.2003

PowerSolv Inc
08.1996 - 09.2002

MS - Engineering

West Virginia University

B.Tech - Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi
Shiv Bhuvanapalli