Amit Kumar
AWS Solutions Architect
Professional Summary
Hands-on AWS Solutions Architect with 12+ years of experience designing reliable, scalable,
and highly available systems. Proven track record of migrating 30+ enterprise applications to
AWS, architecting serverless microservices handling 300k+ transactions/month, and reducing
infrastructure costs by up to 50%. Skilled at bridging the gap between business stakeholders
and technical teams to deliver cloud-native solutions aligned with enterprise security and
compliance requirements.
- Enterprise cloud migration — lift-and-shift, rehost, refactor, and rearchitect strategies
- Serverless & microservices architecture using Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, and DynamoDB
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation
- Kubernetes cluster management, containerization, and CI/CD automation
- SQL (RDS, DB2, Oracle) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, Elasticsearch) database design & migration
Work Experience
StateFarm Insurance through DXC Technology
Enterprise Cloud Migration Initiative
- Designing and implementing enterprise-wide cloud migration — custom Serverless framework using Lambda and API Gateway, database migration strategy, standardizing deployments using Terraform generic modules, Git, CI/CD
- Working with different applications and designing cloud-native architectures for on-premises applications, keeping the whole AWS ecosystem in mind
- Wide variety of projects ranging from Mainframe migration and traditional three-tier applications to microservice conversion into Serverless
- Successfully migrated 30+ major applications to AWS production using lift & shift, rehost & refactor/rearchitecting strategies
Custom Microservices — Purchase Order, Requisition & Invoicing
- Designed and implemented custom microservices for purchase order, requisition, and invoicing in AWS using API Gateway, SQS, Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS and DynamoDB
- Application successfully supported 300k+ transactions per month and capable of supporting 1M+
Informatica to AWS Data Pipeline Migration
- Migrated legacy Informatica data pipelines to AWS using EMR, Lambda, Glue, and Redshift — ingesting data from mainframe and multiple sources
- Built data transformation and loading workflows to AWS QuickSight, generating reports consumed by external legal agencies
- Managed secrets and configuration via AWS Parameter Store and Secrets Manager
- Implemented monitoring and observability using Dynatrace and Splunk
- IaC with Terraform; CI/CD via GitLab pipelines (Python, Go, YAML)
Security, Governance & Engineering Enablement
- Partnered with Security and Governance to define implementation architectures for various AWS services with StateFarm's compliance and restrictions in mind
- Educated engineers by presenting in Brown Bag sessions along with AWS, conducting cross-geographic hackathons and dojo workshops
StateFarm Insurance through DXC Technology
Product Information System — Cloud Migration
- Led the successful transition of an in-house product information system to AWS cloud in 3 months
- Improved scalability and performance by 60%, reduced TCO by 30%, saving 200k+ cost per year
SQL Server to DynamoDB Migration
- Successfully migrated SQL Server database to DynamoDB for an in-house application
- Improved performance significantly and reduced cost by 50%
- Used AWS Schema Conversion Tool, AWS DMS and AWS Glue for efficient data migration
DevOps & Workflow Automation
- Streamlined development workflows by standardizing environments and automating processes using Git, CI/CD, Terraform and CloudFormation
- Set up contract workflows with AWS Step Functions for processing vendor contracts through third-party APIs for efficient review and approvals
Leadership & Client Management
- Onsite coordinator responsible for client expectation management, system maintenance and support, new project initiation and scope exploration
- Project lead — knowledge sharing, team building, performance management, quality assurance and audits
Technology Skillset
AWS Services
- EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate
- S3, Lambda, API Gateway
- SQS, SNS, DynamoDB
- EMR, Glue, Redshift, QuickSight
- IAM, Route53, ALB, WAF
- Secret Manager, Parameter Store, KMS
- CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Athena
- VPC, Azure AD
IaC & Containers
- Terraform, CloudFormation
- Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
Programming
- Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell
- JavaScript, VB.Net
- YML, Lotus Script
Databases & Monitoring
- AWS RDS, SQL Server, DB2
- DynamoDB
- Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch Insights, Prometheus
- GitHub, GitLab
- Vault, Secret Manager
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- Scrum Master Certified
Education
Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering