aspiring cloud engineer

Learning cloud
by actually deploying
things on it.

Sahil Dere — I build and break things on AWS to understand how production infrastructure really works. This site itself is deployed the same way: EC2, nginx, and a domain pointed straight at it.

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$ terraform apply
✓ ec2_instance.web created
✓ route53_record.a created
✓ security_group.http created
→ nginx: reloaded config
$ curl -I yourdomain.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
$
// 01
Stack
4 categories

COMPUTE & INFRA

  • AWS EC2 daily
  • Terraform daily
  • Docker daily
  • Kubernetes working

NETWORKING & DNS

  • Route 53 daily
  • VPC / Subnets daily
  • nginx daily
  • Load Balancers working

AUTOMATION

  • PowerShell daily
  • Bash daily
  • GitHub Actions working
  • Ansible learning

MONITORING

  • CloudWatch daily
  • Grafana working
  • Prometheus learning
  • PagerDuty working
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Projects
3 shipped
DEPLOY-01

Self-hosted portfolio infra

This exact site — provisioned on EC2, served with nginx, DNS managed via Route 53, deployed manually and then via a PowerShell/Bash script.

EC2nginxRoute53
uptime 99.9%region ap-south-1
DEPLOY-02

3-tier VPC architecture

Designed a VPC with public/private subnets, a NAT gateway, and security groups isolating a web tier, app tier, and RDS database tier.

VPCRDSIAM
3 subnetszero public DB access
DEPLOY-03

Automated backup pipeline

A scheduled script that snapshots an EC2 volume and ships logs to S3, triggered by CloudWatch Events on a daily cron.

S3CloudWatchBash
daily snapshots7-day retention
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Certifications & Education
log
2026
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Foundational certification covering core AWS services, security, pricing, and support — replace with your actual cert(s), or remove if not yet done.
verified
2021 — 2024
B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science
GHRIETN
Relevant coursework: networking, operating systems, distributed systems. Add your CGPA if it's strong.
completed

Let's provision
something together.

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