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Anisha Salunkhe

Cloud Applications Architect & Infrastructure Engineer


Architecting enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and distributed systems
Specializing in Infrastructure-as-Code • Observability • AWS Solutions

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About Me

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Professional Role

Cloud Applications Architect at Amazon Web Services, driving technical strategy and architectural excellence for Fortune 500 enterprises. Published author on AWS Prescriptive Guidance and International Women's Day featured speaker.

Impact & Results

Engineered high-performance solutions delivering 32% payment acceptance uplift, 60% operational efficiency gains, and architected distributed systems processing 1M+ WorkOrders—eliminating 21,000 manual hours annually.

Infrastructure & Observability

Led enterprise-scale infrastructure initiatives spanning 50+ EKS clusters with DataDog observability, Envoy Gateway API architecture with 166K+ lines of IaC, and production-grade Terraform modules—achieving zero production incidents.

Resume

Comprehensive technical experience, certifications, and project portfolio

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Work Experience

Cloud Applications Architect

Amazon Web Services

New York, NY

Driving technical strategy and architectural excellence for Fortune 500 media enterprises

November 2023 – Present
  • Architected enterprise WorkOrder Management System processing 1M+ WorkOrders with sub-second latency
  • Built production-grade API Gateway infrastructure with 166K+ lines of IaC and zero production incidents
  • Deployed DataDog observability across 50+ EKS clusters via reusable Terraform modules
  • Spearheaded enterprise cloud transformation initiatives as Architect, defining technical strategy and architectural roadmaps for Fortune 500 media and entertainment conglomerates
  • Architected enterprise-scale WorkOrder Management System for major film studio leveraging Netflix Conductor orchestration engine—delivering sub-second query latency at 1M+ WorkOrders scale with 99.9% uptime SLA
  • Engineered event-driven microservices architecture with EventBridge and Lambda, slashing operational overhead by 50% and eliminating 21,000 manual hours annually through intelligent workflow orchestration
  • Designed and implemented production-grade API Gateway infrastructure using Envoy Proxy and Kubernetes Gateway API on AWS EKS—217 commits, 166K+ lines of configuration code, 60+ infrastructure packages, zero production incidents
  • Built reusable Terraform module for DataDog observability stack deployed across 50+ EKS clusters spanning test and performance environments, with DaemonSet agents, Cluster Agent HA, OpenTelemetry collector, and OIDC-based Vault secret management
  • Implemented four-tag standardization system across all monitored infrastructure, enabling unified filtering, dashboard templating, and cost allocation across DataDog
  • Designed type-safe bootstrap configuration system in Pkl with circuit breakers, mTLS, TCP keepalive, and HTTP/2 support for Envoy Proxy fleet
  • Architected zero-trust network security with granular NetworkPolicies, defense-in-depth container security (non-root, read-only filesystem, dropped capabilities), and automated certificate lifecycle management via cert-manager and AWS PrivateCA
  • Integrated third-party media processing pipelines with AWS native services, accelerating content delivery by 40% and slashing QC processing cycles by 60% through optimized parallel execution strategies
  • AWS Certified DevOps Professional, Solutions Architect Professional (Renewed 2026), AI Practitioner, ML Associate (2024-2025)

Associate Cloud Applications Developer

Amazon Web Services

New York, NY

Partnering with Fortune 500 enterprises to architect and execute large-scale cloud migrations

July 2021 – October 2023
  • Increased payment acceptance by 32% for international cinema chain
  • Reduced IAM provisioning overhead by 60% for pharmaceutical enterprise
  • Deployed governance across 1000+ AWS accounts
  • Partnered with Fortune 500 enterprises and AWS service teams to architect and execute large-scale cloud migrations, delivering zero-downtime transitions while enforcing architectural best practices and Well-Architected Framework principles
  • Orchestrated complex technical engagements spanning HPC workloads, real-time streaming analytics, batch processing pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure modernization across diverse industry verticals
  • Architected highly available payment processing service for international cinema chain with multi-region active-active deployment, boosting payment acceptance by 32% across Americas through resilient API design, intelligent retry mechanisms, and circuit breaker patterns
  • Delivered enterprise-grade IAM automation platform for global pharmaceutical enterprise, eliminating 60% of manual provisioning overhead through bi-directional Active Directory synchronization and dynamic role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Established comprehensive governance framework and compliance automation by deploying CI/CD pipelines across 1000+ AWS accounts, ensuring consistent security posture, policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance at enterprise scale
  • Championed rigorous code quality standards using flake8, PEP8, black, isort, and MyPy static analysis—maintaining 95%+ test coverage, zero critical vulnerabilities, and production-grade code reliability

Professional Services Consultant Intern

Amazon Web Services

New York, NY

Engineered AWS migration tools streamlining cloud adoption for enterprise customers

June 2020 – August 2020
  • Built AWS migration tool with 3-tier architecture orchestrating 8 AWS services
  • Implemented real-time logging with CloudWatch integration
  • Engineered customer-facing AWS migration tool with remote execution capabilities, streamlining cloud adoption workflows and dramatically reducing migration complexity for enterprise customers
  • Designed scalable 3-tier architecture orchestrating 8 AWS services using Python and Boto3 SDK, ensuring modularity, maintainability, and extensibility
  • Implemented real-time logging infrastructure with CloudWatch integration, enabling live session monitoring, status streaming, and comprehensive audit trails

Graduate Student Developer

NYU Information Technology

New York, NY

Built intelligent automation systems leveraging RPA and UiPath

March 2020 – December 2020
  • Built intelligent automation with RPA and UiPath
  • Led agile ceremonies and managed sprint deliverables
  • Built intelligent automation systems leveraging RPA and UiPath, eliminating repetitive manual processes and dramatically improving operational efficiency across university IT operations
  • Developed secure reporting systems with encrypted confidential data handling, automated workflow orchestration, and role-based access controls
  • Led agile ceremonies including sprint planning and retrospectives, managed sprint backlogs, and coordinated cross-functional team deliverables to ensure on-time project completion

Teaching Assistant

New York University

New York, NY

Mentored 38 students in Computer Science fundamentals

September 2019 – December 2019
  • Mentored 38 students in Computer Science fundamentals
  • Evaluated 11 technical assignments with comprehensive code reviews
  • Mentored 38 students in Introduction to Computer Science, cultivating algorithmic thinking, problem-solving skills, and programming fundamentals in Python
  • Evaluated 11 technical assignments with comprehensive code reviews, delivering constructive feedback and optimization recommendations to elevate code quality and performance
  • Developed supplementary course materials including coding exercises and tutorials, conducted weekly office hours for personalized technical guidance and debugging support

Associate Software Engineer

Mastercard Technologies

Pune, India

Spearheaded development of enterprise messaging platform serving 2000+ clients

July 2017 – July 2019
  • Built enterprise messaging platform serving 2000+ clients with 99.99% uptime
  • Optimized performance by 13.67%, achieving 3780 TPS
  • Onboarded 650+ clients with zero critical bugs
  • Spearheaded end-to-end development of Axon™ enterprise messaging platform serving 2000+ production clients across 4 geo-distributed data centers, consistently achieving 99.99% uptime SLA
  • Built high-throughput messaging infrastructure using Java, Scala, and Bash scripting with Confluent Kafka and NATS messaging systems, delivering sub-millisecond message latency at scale
  • Engineered comprehensive usage analytics and audit reporting system with advanced filtering and aggregation capabilities, powering billing framework and enabling data-driven revenue optimization
  • Optimized service performance by 13.67%, achieving 3780 transactions per second (TPS) through strategic JVM heap tuning, garbage collection optimization, and thread pool configuration
  • Achieved SQALE rating "A" via SonarQube static code analysis, maintained zero critical bugs in production, and successfully onboarded 650+ clients with comprehensive training programs and technical documentation
  • Architected multi-node Sandbox environment with 5-machine Linux NATS cluster configuration for comprehensive load testing, performance validation, and pre-production verification
  • SAFe® 4 Certified Agilist, completed internal certifications in JVM Management, TBM, and Spark

Project Intern

TE Connectivity

Pune, India

Engineered IoT digitization platform for industrial manufacturing facility

July 2016 – December 2016
  • Built IoT platform with 71 Raspberry Pi nodes for factory monitoring
  • Transformed paper-based workflows to digital with MySQL database
  • Engineered end-to-end IoT digitization platform for industrial manufacturing facility with 3 core modules: Live Display for real-time monitoring, Workstation Digitization for production tracking, and Daily Maintenance Records for compliance management
  • Architected distributed Master-Slave system deploying 71 Raspberry Pi nodes with wireless mesh networking topology, enabling real-time production monitoring and data aggregation across factory floor
  • Built full-stack web application with seamless hardware-software integration, connecting Komax machinery via industrial protocols for live telemetry streaming and performance tracking
  • Transformed legacy paper-based maintenance workflows with MySQL relational database, automated scheduled reporting, and interactive analytics dashboards for data-driven decision making

Project Intern

Bitwise Solutions

Pune, India

Developed custom Jenkins plugin for CI/CD automation

April 2016 – June 2016
  • Developed custom Jenkins plugin for CI/CD automation
  • Implemented comprehensive testing suite with UAT cases
  • Developed custom Jenkins plugin for QualiDI™ App, automating CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous integration, automated testing, and streamlined deployment workflows
  • Implemented comprehensive integration testing suite with user acceptance test (UAT) cases and functional validation frameworks, ensuring software quality and reliability
  • Managed Git-based version control workflows with branching strategies, established code review standards, and implemented quality gates for continuous quality assurance

Key Projects & Achievements

Projects arranged in reverse chronological order

Enterprise WorkOrder Management System — Media & Entertainment (2024-2025)

1M+ WorkOrders daily • 99.99% data consistency • $2.1M annual profitability increase

Architected enterprise-scale workflow orchestration platform processing 1M+ daily WorkOrders with sub-second query latency using Netflix Conductor distributed orchestration engine, DynamoDB global tables for multi-region consistency, and ElastiCache for millisecond-level caching. Rebuilt event-driven microservices architecture with EventBridge pub/sub patterns and Lambda functions, achieving 65% runtime reduction while eliminating 21,000 manual hours annually. Engineered cross-region data synchronization maintaining 99.99% consistency across production workflows.

Netflix Conductor DynamoDB EventBridge Lambda ElastiCache RDS PostgreSQL

High-Throughput Media Processing Pipeline — Entertainment (2024-2025)

40% faster delivery • 75% reduction in failures • 60% QC improvement

Designed high-throughput media processing integration framework using Step Functions distributed state machines and S3 for parallel transcoding orchestration. Built integration layer with API Gateway and EventBridge connecting third-party processing engines, reducing content processing failures by 75% through intelligent circuit breakers and retry strategies. Implemented automated QC validation pipeline with exception recovery mechanisms, increasing recovery time by 60% while accelerating delivery by 40% through massively parallel execution patterns.

Step Functions S3 API Gateway EventBridge Lambda

Production API Gateway Infrastructure — Envoy & Kubernetes (2024-2025)

166K+ lines IaC • 217 commits • 60+ packages • Zero incidents

Architected enterprise-scale API Gateway infrastructure using Envoy Proxy (v1.37.0) and Kubernetes Gateway API (v1.6.3) on AWS EKS with control/data plane separation. Built type-safe bootstrap configuration system in Pkl with circuit breakers, HTTP/2 support, TCP keepalive, and mTLS for upstream services. Implemented defense-in-depth security achieving CIS Kubernetes Benchmark compliance—zero-trust NetworkPolicies, Pod Security Standards (Restricted profile), read-only root filesystem, dropped capabilities, and Seccomp profiles. Designed automated certificate lifecycle management with cert-manager and AWS PrivateCA enabling zero-downtime mTLS rotation. Deployed via GitOps using FluxCD with HelmRelease CRDs, HPA auto-scaling (2-25 pods), and multi-zone HA delivering 99.95%+ availability across 50+ clusters.

Envoy Proxy Kubernetes Gateway API Pkl FluxCD cert-manager AWS EKS mTLS

DataDog Observability Platform — 50+ EKS Clusters (2024-2025)

5,633 lines code • 50+ clusters • 22 commits • 4-month delivery

Built production-grade Terraform module from scratch deploying comprehensive DataDog observability stack across 50+ Amazon EKS clusters spanning test and performance environments. Architected multi-container DaemonSet with 5 agents (core agent, APM trace, process monitor, system-probe for eBPF-based NPM, OTEL collector), 2-replica Cluster Agent with leader election and admission controller, and Operator for CRD-based resource management (Monitors, Dashboards, SLOs as code). Implemented four-tag standardization system aligned with DataDog best practices enabling unified filtering and cost allocation. Integrated Envoy proxy metrics via AutoDiscovery annotations for traffic layer visibility. Engineered OIDC-based Vault authentication for secure API/App key retrieval with automated secret rotation. Resolved critical RBAC permission issues and OOMKill scenarios (increased limits 512Mi→1Gi). Deployed across us-west-2 and us-east-1 via Terragrunt with zero downtime achieving 100% rollout success.

Terraform Terragrunt DataDog OpenTelemetry Kubernetes Vault AWS EKS

Payment Processing Platform — International Cinema Chain (2022-2023)

$500M+ monthly transactions • 32% acceptance increase • 12 LatAm countries

Architected highly available payment processing platform serving 35,000+ customers across 12 Latin American countries, handling $500M+ monthly transaction volume. Engineered RESTful microservices with Lambda and API Gateway featuring intelligent retry mechanisms, circuit breaker patterns, and multi-region active-active failover architecture. Implemented digital wallet tokenization system with customizable retention policies, driving 32% increase in payment acceptance while reducing transaction errors by 20% during peak quarterly pre-sales events. Optimized response times by 32% through strategic API design and DynamoDB access pattern optimization.

Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB Python Multi-region HA

Enterprise IAM Automation Platform — Global Pharmaceutical (2022)

$811K monthly savings • 1000+ AWS accounts • 96% security compliance

Architected enterprise-scale IAM automation platform transforming manual user provisioning to automated role-based access control (RBAC) across 1000+ AWS accounts for Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company. Engineered bi-directional Active Directory synchronization using Lambda handlers with SQS queue-based retry mechanisms and S3-backed failure recovery, reducing user access management requests by 60% while saving $811K monthly. Deployed CI/CD-driven compliance monitoring achieving 96% security posture across global footprint. Implemented dynamic role provisioning with lifecycle management, reducing AWS account provisioning time from 3 months to 3 hours while turning project health from RED to GREEN status.

AWS IAM Lambda S3 SQS Active Directory Python

Cloud Orchestration Console — Pharmaceutical Enterprise (2022)

$32K monthly savings • 24% time efficiency • Serverless architecture

Developed serverless multi-cloud orchestration portal with RESTful APIs using API Gateway and Lambda for Fortune 500 pharmaceutical enterprise. Architected four Lambda handlers for Active Directory synchronization via Parameter Stores and SQS queues, enabling 1,200+ automatic operation retries during failure scenarios with S3-backed data persistence. Transformed legacy server-based polling to event-driven serverless architecture, eliminating EC2 and RDS infrastructure costs while increasing time efficiency by 24%. Built developer-friendly boilerplate generator reducing project setup time by 272 hours monthly—$32K in monthly savings across engineering teams.

API Gateway Lambda SQS Parameter Store S3 Python

Multi-Factor Authentication Framework — Enterprise Security (2022)

30-second OTP refresh • 2FA compliance • BDD testing

Engineered robust Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) framework with cryptographic time-based One-Time Password (OTP) generation using Lambda, refreshing every 30 seconds for cloud orchestration console. Implemented custom 2-Factor Authentication system following Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) methodology with comprehensive test coverage ensuring industry-standard compliance. Enhanced security posture for Fortune 500 pharmaceutical enterprise through cryptographic authentication layer beyond traditional credentials, fortifying console access for 1000+ AWS accounts.

Lambda Security Python BDD Testing Cryptography

License Compliance & Audit Automation — Pharmaceutical (2022)

$94K+ quarterly savings • 4 hours daily saved • Automated reporting

Automated comprehensive license compliance and auditing system for enterprise RDS (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MSSQL) and EC2 fleets serving Fortune 500 pharmaceutical organization. Built scheduled reporting pipeline with Python generating Excel-formatted audit reports for compliance team, eliminating manual data collection and saving 4 hours daily per administrator—translating to $94K+ quarterly savings. Enhanced administrative capabilities through automated license tracking across multi-engine database infrastructure, slashing compliance overhead by 70% while ensuring regulatory adherence.

RDS Multi-Engine EC2 Python Automation Compliance

Breast Cancer Detection ML Pipeline — Healthcare AI (2020)

85.4% accuracy • Decision Trees • Multi-resolution analysis

Designed and deployed machine learning pipeline for early-stage breast cancer detection using Apache Spark MLlib distributed computing framework. Automated data ingestion, profiling, and cleaning for large-scale clinical histopathology imaging datasets. Trained Decision Tree classification models on multi-resolution microscopy images across 4 magnification levels (40X, 100X, 200X, 400X), achieving 85.4% detection accuracy through ensemble methods and feature engineering on distributed infrastructure.

Apache Spark MLlib Python Decision Trees ETL

Election Forecasting Platform — Time Series Analysis (2020)

85% prediction accuracy • Sentiment analysis • Multi-modal fusion

Built predictive analytics platform forecasting Democratic Primary Election outcomes using time-series regression models (linear and polynomial). Engineered real-time Twitter sentiment analysis pipeline processing social media signals, integrating natural language processing with traditional polling data through multi-modal data fusion techniques. Achieved 85% prediction accuracy by combining sentiment scoring algorithms with historical electoral patterns and demographic data using Python, Pandas, and scikit-learn on large-scale Twitter API datasets.

Python Pandas Twitter API NLP Time Series

Enterprise Messaging Infrastructure — Financial Services (2017-2019)

2000+ clients • 99.99% uptime • 3780 TPS • $2.5M billing framework

Spearheaded end-to-end development of Axon™ geo-distributed enterprise messaging platform serving 2000+ production clients across 4 data centers with 99.99% uptime SLA. Built high-throughput messaging infrastructure using Java, Scala, and Bash with Confluent Kafka and NATS messaging systems, delivering sub-millisecond latency at scale. Optimized service performance by 13.67%, achieving 3780 transactions per second through strategic JVM heap tuning, garbage collection optimization, and thread pool configuration. Engineered comprehensive usage analytics and billing system with advanced filtering and aggregation capabilities, establishing foundation for $2.5M annual billing framework. Achieved SQALE rating "A" via SonarQube static analysis with zero critical production bugs while successfully onboarding 650+ clients.

Java Scala Kafka NATS Performance Tuning

Publication & Profiles

AWS Prescriptive Guidance — Publication

Secure CloudWatch Logs Using Amazon Macie

Published pattern on AWS official documentation for implementing security best practices with Amazon Macie to protect sensitive data in CloudWatch Logs.

Read on AWS Docs
AWS Samples — Code Repository

Transitive Dependency Analyzer

Companion code repository for the above publication, published under AWS Samples. Analyzes transitive dependencies to help teams identify and manage dependency risks.

View on GitHub
International Women's Day — Speaker

IWD Speaker Profile

Featured on the International Women's Day platform for contributions to cloud architecture, technical leadership, and women in technology.

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Mentorship

Mentoring aspiring engineers and architects on ADPList — guiding careers in cloud architecture, AWS, and technical leadership

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Technical Skills

Programming Languages & SDKs

Python
Java
JavaScript
TypeScript
Kotlin
AWS CDK
Shell Scripting
FastAPI
Flask
Node.js

AWS & Cloud Infrastructure

AWS Lambda
Amazon EventBridge
Amazon S3
Amazon VPC
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon EC2
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS Amplify
React

Data & Analytics

Amazon DynamoDB
Kafka
Amazon Athena
Amazon Redshift
Amazon QuickSight
AWS Step Functions
Amazon SQS
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon SNS
AWS AppSync
Amazon Aurora
GraphQL
REST
MongoDB
MySQL

DevOps & Architecture

Git
Jenkins
SonarQube
AWS IAM
AWS KMS
Microservices
Serverless
OpenTelemetry
Amazon Route 53
Terraform
Envoy Proxy
FluxCD / GitOps
DataDog
Kyverno
cert-manager

Education

Graduate

Master of Science (M.S.),
Information Systems

New York University (NYU)

Graduate School of Arts and Science

New York, NY Graduated May 2021

Relevant Coursework

Real-Time Big Data Analytics Dealing with Data Fundamental Algorithms Data & Communication Networks

Key Projects & Experience

  • 2020: Breast Cancer Detection ML Pipeline (85.4% accuracy using Spark MLlib)
  • 2020: Election Forecasting Platform (85% accuracy using time-series analysis)
  • Jun 2020 - Aug 2020: AWS Professional Services Intern (migration tool)
  • Mar 2020 - Dec 2020: Graduate Student Developer - NYU IT (RPA & UiPath automation)
  • Sep 2019 - Dec 2019: Graduate Teaching Assistant - Intro to Computer Science (38 students)
Undergraduate

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.),
Computer Engineering

University of Pune (SPPU)

MKSSS's Cummins College of Engineering for Women

Pune, India Graduated May 2017

Relevant Coursework

Advanced Computer Programming Business Analytics and Intelligence Data Structures & Algorithms Database Management Systems Software Engineering

Key Internships & Achievements

  • Jul 2016 - Dec 2016: Project Intern - TE Connectivity (IoT platform with 71 Raspberry Pi nodes)
  • Apr 2016 - Jun 2016: Project Intern - Bitwise Solutions (Jenkins CI/CD plugin development)
  • 2013: Women's Open Chess Championship - 1st Rank (District Level)
  • 2013: National Science Olympiad - All India Rank #5022

Certifications

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

2025

AWS Certified Machine Learning - Associate

2025

AWS Certified DevOps Professional

2024

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

2024 (Renewed 2026)

AWS Tech-U Graduate

2021

AWS Well-Architected Accreditation

2021

AWS Certified Developer Associate

2021 (Renewed 2024)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

2021 (Renewed 2024)

AWS Certified Cloud Economics

2021

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

2020 (Renewed 2024)

SAFe® 4 Certified Agilist

2018

Information Security Specialist

Cybercure Solutions® - 2016

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