Arif Rahman

Bridging engineering decisions and business goals.

I’m a final-year Cloud Engineering student who likes turning goals such as faster delivery, stronger continuity and lower operational risk into practical AWS, automation, security and networking decisions.

When something doesn’t make sense to me, I build it from the ground up until it does. That’s how I taught myself Terraform, rebuilt a multi-AZ AWS migration from scratch, and ended up reading AWS release notes for fun.

Outside tech I train in wrestling and grappling, follow every Formula 1 race weekend and enjoy meeting people. I’m outgoing, and I bring the same energy to quietly fixing an IAM policy until it’s right.

Certifications & badges

1 certification · 4 learning badges · SAA-C03 in progress

  • AWS

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03)

    Amazon Web Services

    In progress

    Studying now

  • Alteryx Designer Core

    Alteryx · 2024

    Certification

  • AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner

    Amazon Web Services · 2025

    Learning badge

    Hands-on labs in AWS Cloud Quest, not the CLF-C02 exam

  • AWS Cloud Quest: Generative AI Practitioner

    Amazon Web Services · 2025

    Learning badge

    Hands-on labs in AWS Cloud Quest, not the AIF-C01 exam

  • AWS Educate: Getting Started with Cloud Ops

    Amazon Web Services · 2025

    Learning badge

  • Cisco Networking Basics

    Cisco Networking Academy · 2025

    Course badge

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS (S3, EC2, VPC, Lambda, RDS)
  • Multi-AZ architectures
  • Networking
  • Terraform
  • Docker

Security & Identity

  • IAM
  • Cognito
  • Active Directory
  • Security Groups / NACLs
  • ISO 27001

Data & ML

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • Scikit-Learn
  • NoSQL (DynamoDB)
  • Data analysis & visualisation

Delivery & APIs

  • RESTful API design
  • Git
  • Agile / Scrum
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions

Networking

  • Cisco Networking
  • VLANs
  • ACLs
  • DMZ
  • NAT
  • Packet Tracer

Background

  • 2023 — 2027

    BSc Cloud Engineering

    Final-year undergraduate with modules in cloud computing, distributed systems, networks, security and machine learning.

  • 2025 — present

    AWS Cloud Quest & hands-on labs

    Earned the Cloud Practitioner and Generative AI Practitioner learning badges in AWS Cloud Quest's scenario-based labs. Now studying for the Solutions Architect – Associate exam.

  • 2024 — present

    Self-directed cloud projects

    Built multi-AZ AWS migrations, serverless apps, enterprise networks and ML pipelines, documented on GitHub.