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Syeda Rukhaiya Kulsum Ganihar

Bangalore

Summary

Senior Platform Engineer with over 5 years of experience building scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud platforms. Expertise in AWS services, including Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFormation, and DynamoDB, to deliver robust, automated solutions. Skilled in Python-based API development, cloud cost optimization, and governance using AWS Cost and Usage Reports and AWS Organizations. Proficient in monitoring and incident management with CloudWatch and integrating third-party tools like Slack and Jira for enhanced operations. My mentorship of junior engineers highlights my leadership and technical prowess, driving operational excellence and enhancing cloud governance.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Platform Engineer

MontyCloud
01.2023 - Current
  • Designed and implemented a Cost Management Dashboard leveraging AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, and Amazon SNS to automate CUR setup and account onboarding. Enhanced real-time cost tracking and streamlined reporting workflows, providing improved visibility into AWS expenditures and facilitating proactive cost management.
  • Implemented a robust AWS Well-Architected Assessment platform with CRUD operations, automated checks against AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAR) pillars, dynamic insights, and multi-format reporting (PDF/CSV), enabling enhanced cloud governance and operational excellence.
  • Designed and deployed a scalable, multi-tenant event processing system for Day2, leveraging Azure Event Grid events, jsnpath-based spec-driven parsing, and AWS DynamoDB. Integrated with MDS to enable unified resource discovery, cloud inventory management, and automated reporting across AWSand Azure, supporting both on-demand and scheduled exports.
  • Developed an automated API Key Pool system using AWS DynamoDB, DynamoDB Streams, and AWS Lambda to replace long-lived API keys with TTL-enabled keys, ensuring enhanced security, audit trail maintenance in an archive table, and seamless management across AWS and Azure operations.
  • Designed the DAY2 AWS Health Dashboard, integrating AWS Health eventsusing AWS EventBridge rules and scalable database solutions, providing proactive incident management, event timelines, and seamless notifications to external services like Slack and Teams.
  • Designed and automated the process of onboarding AWS member accounts in one click using AWS CloudFormation StackSet and implemented lifecycle management for AWS CloudFormation StackSet events, automating real-time tracking and error monitoring during account onboarding and offboarding. Streamlined resource cleanup using event-driven workflows and improved troubleshooting with a robust schema for tracking StackSet operations.
  • Implemented multi-format report exports (PDF, CSV, JSON) with scheduled delivery and targeted notifications, leveraging AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, and custom APIs for scalable workflows.
  • Migrated domains to AWS CodeBuild, streamlining deployment processes with fully automated, scalable CI/CD pipelines, improving efficiency and scalability.
  • Trained and mentored junior engineers, providing guidance and direction.
  • Developed comprehensive engineering documents for all projects.

Platform Enigeener

MontyCloud
10.2019 - 12.2022
  • Designed and developed REST APIs using Python (FastAPI), leveraging Swagger API for documentation and deploying via Amazon API Gateway, ensuring seamless integration with frontend systems.
  • Developed a resilient event pipeline leveraging custom SDKs, ensuring event consistency, retention, and real-time replays, enhancing system reliability and traceability.
  • Built a discovery framework for over 40 AWS resources on MontyCloud's DAY2, utilizing AWS EventBridge, AWS Lambda, and boto3 for real-time synchronization and efficient onboarding.
  • Integrated the DAY2 platform with Freshdesk, automating feedback-to-ticket conversion, user onboarding, and support activation workflows, thereby improving customer experience and operational efficiency.
  • Redesigned a database schema to resolve update inconsistencies and enhance querying capabilities, utilizing AWS DynamoDB indexing for advanced filtering and pagination. Migrated data seamlessly using event-driven processes, improving API performance and synchronization with the user interface.
  • Built a spec-driven architecture for dynamic report exports in multiple formats (PDF, CSV, JSON) with scheduled delivery and recipient-specific notifications, leveraging AWS DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and custom APIs for scalable automation.
  • Integrated the DAY2 platform with external services such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, PagerDuty, and Amazon SNS, automating task execution and providing seamless interaction through a scalable database design.
  • Developed a backend solution for managing and validating custom blueprints with versioning, metadata support, and integrated review workflows via Freshdesk.
  • Architected a unified subscription and billing solution for the DAY2™ platform, leveraging AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, and Amazon SNS to enable event-driven updates, metered billing, and free-tier integration for enhanced customer experience and revenue management.
  • Implemented secure API Key authorization for AWS listener endpoints, optimizing onboarding/offboarding processes and resolving noisy neighbor issues using Amazon SQS for resource management.
  • Designed and implemented AWS Session Manager logging to Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudWatch, leveraging SSM automation documents and precise IAM configurations for secure and scalable session management.

Cloud Engineer - Trainee

MontyCloud
03.2019 - 09.2019
  • Develop and deploy serverless applications using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, ensuring seamless API integrations.
  • Design and implement EventBridge rules to trigger Lambda functions for real-time event processing, keeping systems synchronized and responsive.
  • Assist in automating workflows, monitoring infrastructure, and optimizing system performance.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) - Computer Science

Tontadarya College of Engineering
Gadag, India
06-2018

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms & Services: Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon VPC, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon Cognito, Amazon Systems Manager, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Redshift
  • Development & Programming: Python, FastAPI, Swagger API
  • Tools & Frameworks: AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Serverless Framework, API Gateways
  • Cloud Governance & Cost Management: AWS Cost and Usage Reports, AWS MAP, AWS Organizations, RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)
  • Monitoring & Health: AWS Health Dashboard, Amazon CloudWatch
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Docker

Timeline

Senior Platform Engineer

MontyCloud
01.2023 - Current

Platform Enigeener

MontyCloud
10.2019 - 12.2022

Cloud Engineer - Trainee

MontyCloud
03.2019 - 09.2019

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) - Computer Science

Tontadarya College of Engineering

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