Houssem

As a Cloud Architect Consultant, I led the modernization of foundational AWS infrastructure, enabling secure, scalable, and compliant cloud environments through strategic design and hands-on implementation.

• Designed and implemented a secure, scalable AWS Landing Zone using AWS Control Tower.
• Migrated accounts from legacy AWS Organization into a modern setup with Azure AD identity federation.
• Documented infrastructure using Terraform for repeatability and compliance.

As a DevOps Consultant, I partnered with engineering leadership to modernize infrastructure and delivery pipelines, driving automation, scalability, and governance across cloud environments while aligning technical solutions with long-term business goals.

• Governed and restructured the AWS Organization by implementing Service Control Policies (SCPs), enforcing guardrails, and aligning the account structure with AWS best practices.
• Refactored the CI/CD pipeline from a time-based GitHub self-hosted runner autoscaling group to a serverless, event-driven architecture.
• Re-engineered runner bootstrapping using Ansible-driven provisioning, reducing cold start times and simplifying maintenance.
• Developed automation scripts to eliminate repetitive tasks, boosting system efficiency and enabling cost optimization.
• Configured and maintained Kubernetes clusters (EKS) for high availability and scalable deployments.
• Automated server provisioning using Terraform and Ansible for consistent environments and faster deployments.

As a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, I played a pivotal role in bridging technical depth with business strategy, leading cloud engagements from concept to delivery while fostering trust across both technical and non-technical teams.

• Engaged with clients to understand their business challenges, technical requirements, and cloud aspirations.
• Participated in pre-sales and client discovery meetings to gather business requirements, provide architectural guidance, and shape tailored cloud solutions that align with client goals and budgets.
• Acted as a trusted consultant, building long-term client and partnership with AWS and Azure through technical expertise, clear communication, and strategic insights.
• Designed and delivered scalable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions across AWS and Azure based on client goals and best practices.

As a Platform Engineer at Kindred Group, I implemented FinOps principles to optimize AWS cloud costs and improve financial transparency. I led initiatives to enhance tagging strategies, dashboards, network connectivity and cost attribution while managing Kubernetes clusters and pipelines at scale.

• Implemented FinOps principles to optimize costs and improve financial transparency.
• Utilized tools like Kubecost to track and analyze K8S spending, identifying areas for cost reduction and optimization.
• Designed and developed custom dashboards using tools like Quicksight to visualize cloud costs and highlight areas for improvement.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to understand budgetary constraints and business requirements, aligning cloud spending with organizational goals.
• Implemented tagging strategies and cost allocation mechanisms to attribute cloud costs accurately across departments and projects.
• Conducted regular cost reviews and analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities and optimize resource utilization to fine tune Processes of purchasing saving plans for AWS cloud.
• Provided recommendations and best practices to teams for optimizing cloud usage and reducing unnecessary spending.
• Maintained internal libraries for diverse CI/CD pipelines, ensuring streamlined development workflows and enhanced productivity across projects.
• Orchestrated the architectural blueprint of AWS organizational structure, aligning infrastructure with business objectives and optimizing resource allocation for scalability and cost-efficiency.
• Led the redesign of network interconnectivity, seamlessly bridging on-premise and AWS environments while enhancing DNS resolution for improved reliability and performance.
• Managed multiple Kubernetes clusters handling critical production workloads, including the implementation of robust credential rotation policies and governance frameworks to ensure security and compliance.

Worked closely with cross-functional teams to develop hybrid cloud architecture and automation solutions that reduced costs and improved service availability.

• Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that elevated client side experience and significantly improved overall functionality and performance.
• Wrote and updated documentation to outline technical design of entire project.
• Designed and implemented Hybrid cloud cloud architecture along with development team to ensure cost reductions.
• Wrote infrastructure as code for already existing resources on different cloud providers ensuring tight coupling of different components using strict policy approach tight security access permissions
• Implemented Networking solutions facilitate cloud move from on-premises including but no limited to (Site-to-site VPN solution, Hybrid DNS solution).
• Coordinated regularly with different stakeholders of different projects on how to better approach our migration (selecting right strategy)
• Contributed to enhancing availability of different services and it integration with monitoring

Collaborated within a team to lead the backend and infrastructure design of BMW’s cloud-based application platform, ensuring automation, scalability, and resilience across multi-region AWS deployments handling over 700TB of data daily

• Designed and implemented flexible API to secure real-time access, updates, manipulate and combine data from one or more data sources in backend to web application frontend mobile app.
• Ensured Automation through scripting using terraform to automate operating system, host configuration and operational tasks
• Ensured that data is synchronized between data sources.
• Regular coordination with representatives of BMW Project stakeholders
• Gathered details on current state application architecture running on AWS Services refactoring opportunities for in-scope applications in order to optimize performance, execution time and compute resources Ensured availability of data even with system failure
• Ensured Multi region deployment while defining monitor metrics and logs to see how application and infrastructure performance impacts experience of their product’s end user. Defined cost monitoring system.

Worked on scalable software systems and CI/CD pipelines while contributing to cross-cloud environments (AWS & GCP) and security-enhanced credential systems.

• Analyzed, monitored, and troubleshooted large-scale distributed systems.
• Identified and implemented best practices for software development, resulting in a 30% reduction in development time
• Created and managed build/deployment pipelines for continuous integration and continuous delivery to improve quality and availability of business products.
• Built credential management system improving experience of engineers accessing different sensitive information
• Developed data pipelines in cloud-native environments such as AWS and Google Cloud Platform

Led a team of developers in delivering scalable software modules, mentoring junior staff, and driving performance improvements.

• Mentored junior developers to ensure adherence to best practices and improve code quality
• Led a team of developers to successfully complete a major software project on time and within budget
• Designed a modular software architecture that enables rapid development, testing, and deployment of new features
• Refactored code to improve scalability and reduce code complexity
• Developed an API that enables integration with third-party services and reducesdata processing time

Focused on developing RESTful APIs and backend services to support mobile and web integrations.

• Developed a RESTful API to integrate the application with a backend database
• Developed a RESTful API backend to enable mobile app integration with the web application
• Developed a RESTful API that served as the backend for a web application, improving scalability and reducing latency by 7%
• Refactored legacy code to improve reliability, scalability and maintainability