Rashid Kadura

Experienced AWS Cloud Engineer with nearly 2 years of experience with technology consulting,
IT management, business development, technical writing, and collaborating with technical
teams. Strong analytical skills in assessing business requirements at the enterprise level and
designing resilient, cost-effective technology solutions for clients. Current interest is in cloud
strategy, cloud migration, and optimization.

MOBILE APP STARTUP EXPERIENCE Nov 2021 – Present
AWS ARCHITECT - the Libya Properties web-based and mobile application
● Lead on design/development aspects of subscription-based mobile application; onboard
from startup seeding to strategize business and network demands, including mobile
app’s free trial use phase, onboarding users, advertising, etc.
● Implemented docker containers on AWS using a docker compose file.
● Automated and improved resource utilization, helping to reduce hosting costs by 30%.
● Architected and deployed cost-effective and resource-optimized AWS Cloud Test
environment and Production environment.
● Monitored instance resilience metrics during advertisement bursts, troubleshooting and
configuring instances to handle disruption.
● Designed for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based
architectures, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other disaster recovery models.
● Experienced in utilizing Terraform to deploy and manage infrastructure on the AWS
platform, leveraging its robust capabilities to automate resource provisioning, ensure
scalability, and maintain consistent environments, resulting in streamlined and efficient
cloud operations.
● Leveraged different design principles for security in the cloud and implemented various
AWS services to improve our security posture for authentication, authorization,
monitoring, auditing, encryption and data path security.
● Integrated and deployed 3rd-party CDN (StackPath) to cache user requests, improving
user interface experience.
● Developed CloudFormation templates to provision infrastructures in cloud
● Designed secured, cost optimized, highly available and fault tolerant architecture
designs and infrastructure in AWS.
● Implemented security best practices in AWS including configuring security groups and
NACLs, multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions,
enforcing strong password policy, S3 bucket policies and ACLs.
● Optimized cost through on-demand instances. selection and changing of EC2 instance
types based on resources needed, leveraging Autoscaling.
● Leveraged EC2 LifeCycle Manager to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled
intervals for backup and define a retention period as a cost saving measure.
● Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for our
AWS resources and applications.

Bachelor's of Science from Purdue University