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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.

Cloud infrastructure, security and serverless work built on AWS.

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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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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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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