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Shapla Begum

Aspiring AWS Solutions Architect · AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Reading, UK help@theshadowarchitect.online Remote-ready
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner pursuing the AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certification through Optima IT. Hands-on experience deploying EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and IAM-secured architectures through self-led projects. A career-changer with a decade of demonstrated reliability, stakeholder communication and problem-solving from senior support and team-leadership roles — now translating those skills into cloud architecture and customer-facing technical work. Reliable, empathetic, and motivated to grow into a Solutions Architect.

Certifications & training
Awarded · April 2026

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

In progress

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Optima IT bootcamp, 2025–present

Studying

AWS Security

Alongside SAA preparation

Ongoing

Hands-on Labs & Team Projects

Architecture, security & scalability principles

Technical skills
ComputeEC2, Lambda, Fargate — serverless and container-based compute
Storage / DBS3 (static hosting + secure storage), DynamoDB
Identity / SecurityIAM (roles, policies, least-privilege), AWS Cognito
Network / CostVPC, AWS Budgets
Cloud conceptsServerless architecture, Well-Architected Framework, scalability, high availability
ToolsLinux CLI, AWS Management Console, architecture diagramming (draw.io), Git & GitHub
AI workflowClaude, Gemini, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, NotebookLM — in a structured, validated workflow with outputs checked against AWS official sources
Cloud projects · 2025–present
Featured · Live

The Living Portfolio

S3 · CloudFront · DynamoDB · Lambda · API Gateway · SES

  • Serverless portfolio website (this site) spanning five AWS service categories — static hosting, global CDN delivery over HTTPS, a live NoSQL visitor counter and an email-sending contact form.
Personal AWS portfolio

Serverless Image-Processing Pipeline

Lambda · S3 events · IAM roles · Python

  • Lambda functions triggered by S3 uploads — demonstrating event-driven, cost-efficient architecture that costs nothing when idle.
Personal AWS portfolio

Secure EC2 Web Deployment

EC2 · Security groups · Key pairs · VPC

  • Deployed an EC2-hosted web application, configuring security groups and key-pair access to model real-world infrastructure.
  • Applied IAM least-privilege policies for secure, auditable access across multi-service workloads.
  • Produced Well-Architected diagrams for business scenarios before every build.
Employment history
Sept 2024 – Apr 2025

Team Leader / House Coordinator

Willow Tree — Residential Care

  • Led daily operations, coordinating staff, escalations and safeguarding — directly translatable to incident response and on-call ownership.
  • Communicated with external stakeholders (NHS, social services, police, education providers) — the same cross-functional coordination required of a Solutions Architect.
  • Owned structured incident reporting and documentation, ensuring continuity and traceability of decisions.
  • Supervised and mentored junior staff, delegating workloads and maintaining standards under pressure.
  • Managed compliance and risk across the site — safeguarding, fire safety and reporting workflows.
Ongoing · Voluntary

Support Worker

Project SALAMA

  • Active-listening support for adults navigating trauma — building trust quickly, a transferable skill for customer-facing technical work.
  • Coordinated referrals and signposting, requiring structured information gathering and clear handovers.
2014 – 2024

Career Break — Household Management & Caregiving

  • Managed family budgeting, scheduling and logistics over a decade — returning to work with renewed focus on a long-term technology career.
2013 – 2014

Classroom Helper

Meadow Park Academy

  • Supported children with additional needs, adapting communication style to the audience — a foundation for stakeholder-facing work today.
Education & additional

Education

  • Reading Girls School (1993–1998) — GCSEs in English, Maths and Science

Additional information

  • Full and clean UK driving licence
  • Languages: English (native), Bengali (fluent)
  • References available upon request

Safeguarding & wellbeing

  • Mental Health First Aider (MHFA)
  • DASH Risk Assessment; Domestic Abuse Awareness (GDASS)
  • NCFE Level 2 — Understanding Behaviour that Challenges; Supporting Teaching & Learning

Compliance & workplace training

  • Fire Safety, First Aid, Emergency First Aid Level 2
  • GDPR, COSHH, Equality & Diversity, Food Safety
  • Supervision, Appraisal & Management; FGM Awareness