Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Projects
Notable Customer Engagements
Timeline
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GOVIND RAJ

Bengaluru

Summary

Dynamic Cloud Engineer with extensive experience at AWS, specializing in cloud solution architecture and DynamoDB. Proven track record of enhancing system performance by 40% and mentoring teams. Adept at troubleshooting complex issues and engaging customers to deliver tailored solutions, leveraging expertise in AWS core services and AI/ML technologies.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Application Engineer

Amazon Development Center
Bengaluru
06.2025 - Current
  • Developed workflows for Deal and Contra-cogs within Sapien.
  • Executed data migration from Andes tables to Amazon S3, ensuring data integrity.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance system performance.
  • Designed automated processes to streamline cloud operations.
  • Provided technical support and troubleshooting for cloud applications.

Cloud Engineer II

AWS
Bengaluru
10.2023 - 05.2025
  • Advocated for customers' needs by collaborating with product management and development teams to deliver tailored solutions.
  • Developed comprehensive onboarding materials, and conducted training sessions to enhance team knowledge and efficiency.
  • Served as a subject matter expert on DynamoDB, guiding aspiring SMEs, and ensuring high standards of technical proficiency.
  • Analyzed customer engagements to identify performance bottlenecks, optimize costs, and recommend best practices for AWS product adoption.
  • Partnered with Account Managers to create proposals and deliver feature demonstrations aligned with customer requirements.
  • Optimizing performance and costs in AWS setup.

Cloud Engineer I

AWS
Bengaluru
04.2021 - 09.2023
  • Troubleshoot complex, high-severity issues for enterprise customers, focusing on NoSQL database management, particularly with DynamoDB.
  • Resolved technical challenges using AIML technologies, including Amazon SageMaker, Lex, and Personalize.
  • Mentored and onboarded new Cloud Support Engineers, enhancing team capabilities in Big Data.
  • Developed comprehensive tutorials and technical articles for internal and external communities.
  • Collaborated with AWS Technical Account Managers to address critical customer issues, and provided strategic guidance on Big Data and ML services.
  • Created tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for internal and customer-facing communities.
  • Engaged in resolving internal tickets for faster resolution of customer issues and working with service teams to provide proper resolution and guidance.
  • I worked as part of the Strategic Cloud team to collaborate with customers on high-priority migrations, troubleshooting, architecture design, and leading such war room efforts.
  • I took part in hiring drives to "hire and develop" new cloud engineers and associates for the Big Data team.

Cloud Associate

AWS
Bengaluru
12.2019 - 03.2021
  • Developed expertise across AWS offerings, including database services like DynamoDB, DAX, and Keyspaces, along with AI/ML tools such as Lex, Comprehend, and Transcribe.
  • Resolved enterprise-level customer issues through log examination and root cause analysis.
  • Provided technical assistance to AWS customers, recommending best practices for AWS Big Data services including Elastic Map Reduce, Athena, DynamoDB, and Glue.
  • Assisted in writing and debugging AWS API calls using AWS CLI and Boto3 SDK, enhancing customer solutions.
  • Implemented monitoring and performance optimization strategies for AWS environments.

Associate Product Developer

DXC Technology
Noida
12.2018 - 12.2019
  • Enhanced and maintained Med Mantra healthcare system for Apollo Hospitals.
  • Provided production support for billing, registration, and discharge modules.
  • Improved system performance by 40% through key development fixes.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and implement solutions.
  • Developed and executed testing protocols to ensure system integrity and functionality.

Education

M.Tech - CSE

NIT Durgapur
Durgapur
06.2018

B.Tech - CSE

BCET Durgapur
Durgapur
06-2016

Skills

  • Cloud solution architecture
  • Large language models
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Java programming
  • SQL database management
  • DynamoDB expertise
  • AWS core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Athena, CloudWatch, CloudTrail)
  • AI/ML AWS services (Bedrock, Lex, Comprehend, Transcribe, Rekognition, SageMaker)
  • AWS NoSQL solutions (DynamoDB, DAX, Keyspaces)
  • Troubleshooting and root cause analysis
  • Documentation and mentoring
  • Customer engagement strategies

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner
  • DynamoDB SME
  • Received the AWS Rising Star award in two consecutive quarters, Q2 and Q3 2020
  • Received AWS All-Rounder award for outstanding performance (Q4 2023, Q2 2024, Q1 2025)

Projects

  • AWS Cost Optimization Program - partnered with clients like Paytm and Samsung to reduce AWS infrastructure costs by 30% through rightsizing and strategic tuning
  • Generative AI document summarizer - developed an internal tool using AWS Bedrock to summarize long support documents, reducing resolution time by 70%
  • Runbooks - Authored runbooks for DynamoDB, DAX, and Keyspaces to handle common customer scenarios, resulting in reduced customer turnaround and resolution times by 15%
  • Design review templates - designed blueprints to facilitate uniform and efficient report creation for customer engagements, resulting in easier interpretation and readability for customers
  • Refactoring SOPs - Updated already existing SOPs to inculcate new reforms to maintain uniformity across SOPs globally

Notable Customer Engagements

  • Swiggy's cost optimization effort helped save $150K ARR on DynamoDB and DAX
  • Hotstar – resource reviews and standby support for large-scale events (movie premieres, Cricket World Cup, IPL) to handle traffic influx and ensure appropriate scaling and best practices
  • Expedia - Analyzed design patterns and prepared reports to highlight critical bottlenecks
  • Upstox - helped set up monitoring alerts on key metrics to enhance operational awareness of resources, and trigger failover
  • Delhivery evaluated resource utilization to implement cost optimization strategies by 15%

Timeline

Application Engineer

Amazon Development Center
06.2025 - Current

Cloud Engineer II

AWS
10.2023 - 05.2025

Cloud Engineer I

AWS
04.2021 - 09.2023

Cloud Associate

AWS
12.2019 - 03.2021

Associate Product Developer

DXC Technology
12.2018 - 12.2019

M.Tech - CSE

NIT Durgapur

B.Tech - CSE

BCET Durgapur
GOVIND RAJ