Rahul Kumar Sharma

About

Rahul Kumar Sharma

Senior Research Associate

Multi‐Cloud Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing, optimizing, and automating AWS & Azure infrastructures using Python. Proven track record of reducing cloud spend by 20–30% through rightsizing, automation, and Well‐Architected Reviews. Skilled at enhancing security, performance, and scalability to align technology solutions with business objectives.

Professional Experience

CloudThat Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Senior Research Associate (Oct 2024 – Present)

Led AWS Well‐Architected Reviews for 10+ accounts, improving cost‐efficiency and operational excellence by 25%.
Architected and automated EC2 scheduling, RDS backups, S3 replication, and EKS cluster scaling.
Implemented Amazon Pinpoint campaigns integrated with Kinesis and AWS Glue for reporting.
Designed Azure tenant-to-tenant migrations and hybrid connectivity solutions.
Created IAM roles and permission sets for least‐privilege access across AWS & Azure.

Research Associate (Nov 2021 – Sep 2024)

Performed cost‐optimization analyses achieving 20% monthly savings through rightsizing and reservations.
Developed IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation.
Automated workflows, billing alerts, and logistics pipelines.
Troubleshot infrastructure incidents with 99.9% uptime SLA.

Research Intern (Apr 2021 – Oct 2021)

Built high‐availability Moodle LMS on AWS with Auto Scaling and RDS Multi‐AZ.
Worked with DevOps pipelines, Docker, and Azure Logic Apps.

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - Jain University, Bangalore (2021)

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) - Siliguri Institute of Technology, MAKAUT (2018)

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure
Scripting: Python, Linux
Database: MySQL, MongoDB
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Achievements: Proactiveness Award, CloudThat Technologies (2023); Blog Award for Technical Writing (2022)

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