PERSONAL INFORMATION
Amber Ameer
London, UK
SUMMARY
Happy to work professionally independent and as part of a team.
Experienced in projects of domain BigData/DevOps/Cloud Computing on Amazon Web Services. Leading Teraways
team which is providing technical development and consultation services to clients from USA/UK/Canada on multiple
Data Lake projects and several Amazon Web Services of Compute and DevOps areas, for example, Lambda, ECS,
AWS SAM framework, CICD Services in AWS Stack and Cloudformation. Extensive expertise of the technical team
is in Serverless Application Development Architecture.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Jul 2017 – Present Senior Data Engineer - AWS Cloud Computing- Teraways Solutions London
▪ Started my leading career in 2017 with Cloud Computing AWS.
▪ Successfully led the team on many projects with different domains of big data and
cloud computing especially DevOps, data lake formation, data management, data
processing, application migration and Serverless Application Development.
Jun 2015 – Jul 2017 Big Data Engineer - Solstice Solutions
▪ Worked here as a product development lead to deliver technical milestones to the
onshore sales team. Experienced with the marketing industry during this period.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Lang: Python, Pyspark, NodeJs , ReactJs, SQL, JavaScript
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS (Aurora), AWS DynamoDB, Druid
Amazon Web Services: Hands-on experience on following cloud services
AWS EC2, ECS Fargate, Lambda, Redshift, DynamoDB, S3, EMR, AWS Glue,
Crawlers, Athena, Kinesis Streams, Kinesis Data Analytics, IAM, Step Functions,
SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, SSM, Cognito, VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway,
Network Load Balancer, Auto Scaling.
Big Data Technology: Container (Docker), Amazon ECS, Spark (Pyspark), CloudEndure
Self-Paced: Apache Kafka, Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), Hadoop
DevOps: Jenkins, Ansible, CICD, CodeCommit, Codepipeline, CodeBuild, SAM Framework
EDUCATION &
CERTIFICATION
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
CloudEndure Migration Certification - AWS
PROJECTS INFO
Title | Domain Lift & Shift | Application Migration
● In this project, the online education provider client was getting high traffic due to the
COVID-19 situation. They want to replicate their on-prem application resources to
cloud for disaster recovery.
● Led the project engagement with Teraways team of 2 DevOps Engineers, writing
cloudformation scripts to establish a VPC network and set up replication via a
cloudendure tool with recommended EC2 machines.
● Configured customer`s on-prem load balancer (F5 Big IP) to AWS cloud, installation
and set up with on-prem configurations.
Role: Client Engagement Manager | Technical Oversight
Domain: Lift & Shift | Cloud Migration
Technologies: CloudEndure, F5 Big IP, AWS VPC, Cloudformation,
CC Analyzer, Network Load Balancer
Title | Domain Integrated Data Hub | Serverless Application Development
● In this project, a pharmaceutical surveyor client was required to build a serverless
application to implement Master Data Management use cases on AWS cloud.
● During my technical experience at NorthBay Solutions, I have worked here as a
Python Cloud Engineer to work on several AWS services and Python was the
primary language for development of APIs using AWS Lambda and API Gateway
via SAM framework.
● After development, I experienced production support of the project for more than 6
months.
Role: AWS Cloud Engineer (Python)
Domain: Cloud Computing
Technologies: SAM, Lambda, Aurora RDS, Python, SQL,
Cloudformation, Elasticsearch, S3, Lambda, SSM
Title | Domain Data lake Platform | ETL and Data Processing
● In this project, the high scale campaign publisher client was required to build a Data
Lake on AWS cloud (S3), data sources were many, there were 12 RDS instances
with TBs of data, and there was streaming data as well to manage. i-e click events
● My role was big data engineer to process the data from on-premises to AWS cloud
using pyspark, developed data pipelines for the automation of data processing and
established step functions via cloudformation to orchestrate and terminate aws
resources after processing done.
● Data Lake (S3) was built with refined data partitions, to optimise the consumption of
data by using AWS Athena APIs for the customer`s analyst users.
Role: Big Data Engineer
Domain: DevOps, DataLake
Technologies: AWS (Amazon Web Services), Python, Spark
Title | Domain Data Warehouse Optimization | Amazon Redshift
● In this project, a recruitment services provider company was facing slow response
issues from Amazon Redshift, a technical health check was required to determine
the performance bugs and suggestions as per the best practices were needed to
implement.
● My role was to optimize the Amazon Redshift, for that worked on cluster
configuration, schema design, query performance optimization.
● By implementing best practices, gained substantial results after optimisation of
Redshift cluster, project engagement was managed by AWS (Amazon).
Role: AWS Technical Consultant
Domain: Optimization / Consultation
Technologies: Amazon Redshift, Python, SQL
PERSONAL SKILLS
Extracurricular ● Conducted workshops for university graduates on Big Data & Cloud Computing.
● Voluntarily provided Amazon Web Services introductory online training sessions.
AWARDS
Merit-Based Scholarship
Awarded four times merit-based scholarship for high CGPA scoring in University.
Got several performance bonuses on raising company capital annually.
