All projects

Each case study covers the problem, the architecture I chose and what changed as a result. Academic and personal projects are labelled. Recruiting? Match these against your job description.

01 · 2025 · Academic cloud security architecture projectDeployed

Cloud Security Framework — CivicNexus

Problem: A smart-city platform with its database open to 0.0.0.0/0, unencrypted volumes, and no MFA or logging.
AWS services: VPCSecurity GroupsIAM + MFAKMSCloudTrailCloudWatch
Result: Two Critical (score 9) risks treated down to Low; controls mapped to 8 ISO 27001 Annex A domains.

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02 · 2025 · Machine learning portfolio projectCompleted

Machine Learning Predictive Modeling Pipeline

Problem: A 95/5 class imbalance meant a model could score 95% accuracy and still miss every stroke.
Tools: Pythonpandasscikit-learnGridSearchCVK-MeansPCA
Result: Stroke recall raised from 0% to 80% (AUC 0.84); four customer segments identified.

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03 · 2025 · Academic network architecture projectCompleted

Enterprise Network — TechBridge

Problem: Two sites needed room for 50% growth, no single point of failure and a private link between them.
Tools: Cisco IOSOSPFHSRPVLANsGRE/IPSecNAT/PAT
Result: 22 VLANs, HSRP failover and an encrypted site-to-site tunnel, validated by 18 end-to-end tests.

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04 · 2026 · Personal project · fictional fintech briefDeployed

Starling Digital Cloud Migration

Problem: A fintech brief: move to AWS in a way that is secure, highly available and ready for audit.
AWS services: VPCALBEC2 Auto ScalingRDSDynamoDBEFSS3Simple AD
Result: Multi-AZ design, a 2–4 instance auto-scaled API tier, central identity and four chained security groups.

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05 · 2025 · Personal AWS projectCompleted

Amazon QuickSight — S3 Data Visualisation

Problem: 8,807 rows of raw CSV in S3 that no one could use without downloading it.
AWS services: S3QuickSightSPICE
Result: A six-visual interactive dashboard, imported at 100% success, built in about two hours.

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06 · 2025 · Personal AWS projectCompleted

Amazon Lex — Banking Chatbot with Custom Slots

Problem: Customers word banking questions in endless ways, and balances must never be shown unverified.
AWS services: Amazon LexIAM
Result: Two intents, a custom slot with synonyms, and date-of-birth verification before any balance.

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07 · 2026 · Personal AWS projectCompleted

AWS KMS — Encrypting a DynamoDB Database

Problem: AWS-owned keys gave the account no say over who could decrypt the table.
AWS services: KMSDynamoDBIAM
Result: Unauthorised reads blocked until the key policy explicitly granted five actions.

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08 · 2026 · Personal projectCompleted

Multi-Container Application — Flask + Redis

Problem: State kept inside the app process vanishes whenever the container restarts.
Tools: DockerDocker ComposeFlaskRedis
Result: The counter lives in Redis on a volume, and services find each other by name.

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09 · 2026 · Personal projectCompleted

AWS ECR — Private Container Registry Pipeline

Problem: Images on a laptop or public Docker Hub had no access control and nowhere AWS could pull from.
AWS services: ECRIAMAWS CLIDocker Compose
Result: A 66.68 MB arm64 image in a private, IAM-governed repo, pulled straight into Compose.

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10 · 2026 · Personal projectCompleted

Full-Stack Containerization & Multi-Container Networking

Problem: “Works on my machine” failures from missing dependencies and hardcoded IP addresses.
Tools: DockerBridge networksGitSSH
Result: Repeatable image builds, and containers that talk to each other by name.

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11 · 2026 · Personal projectCompleted

Docker Compose — Declarative Multi-Service Stack

Problem: Running a two-container app meant a fragile chain of manual docker commands.
Tools: Docker ComposeFlaskMySQL
Result: The whole stack starts with one command, identical on every machine.

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12 · 2026 · Infrastructure-as-code portfolio projectDeployed

Terraform — WordPress Stack on AWS EC2

Problem: Building a WordPress server by hand was slow and came out different every time.
Services & tools: TerraformEC2Security GroupsUser data
Result: One terraform apply goes from nothing to a live WordPress installer, with no SSH.

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13 · 2026 · Infrastructure-as-code portfolio projectDeployed

Terraform — EC2 Deployment with Cloud-Init

Problem: Manual server setup over SSH was slow and drifted between builds.
Services & tools: TerraformEC2cloud-initNGINX
Result: Each instance boots straight into a working NGINX endpoint, identical on every run.

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14 · 2026 · Academic multi-cloud architecture projectCompleted

Multi-Cloud Hospitality Platform — AWS CloudFormation + Azure Front Door

Problem: App, data and admin tiers had to be isolated and deployed by pipeline, with HD video kept off the web servers.
Services & tools: CloudFormationGitHub ActionsVPC peeringALBRDSAzure Front Door
Result: Two peered VPCs deployed in one pipeline run; HLS video served from Azure's edge at ~91 ms per segment.

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