AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Kerala, India
Hi, I'm
Shown Shaiju
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03).
I build real cloud systems and document real failures in public.
Open to Cloud Engineer / DevOps / SRE roles — full-time, open to relocation across India.
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Who I Am
I'm an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate who builds in public — shipping real systems, documenting real failures, and learning out loud.
I passed SAA-C03 in roughly 3 weeks, self-studying with no mentor and no paid courses. Just documentation, first-principles thinking, and deliberate practice. Graduating with an MCA from Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha (MGU) in April 2026.
My flagship project, DevRPG, is a 5-tier cloud-native platform deployed on Amazon EKS. Not a tutorial follow-along — every failure got debugged and documented. CrashLoopBackOff at 2AM. EBS CSI driver misconfigurations. OOMKill events. Real infrastructure, real problems.
Long-term trajectory: Cloud Security Engineering. Building the fundamentals now.
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What I've Shipped
A 5-tier decoupled cloud-native platform deployed on Amazon EKS. Nginx → Gunicorn/Django → PostgreSQL (EBS) → Redis → Celery. Includes a fine-tuned DistilBERT model (98.1% accuracy, trained on 1,080 synthetic samples) with Google Gemini 1.5 Flash API failover for skill evaluation. Not a tutorial — a real deployment with real failures documented.
→ View Repository on GitHubDay-by-day structured notes from my SAA-C03 prep — architecture patterns, failure modes, cost behavior, IAM policies, service comparisons. Self-studied, no mentor, no paid courses. Passed first attempt. Used by 100+ engineers globally who found it organically.
→ View Notes on GitHubHands-on Terraform documentation — IaC patterns, module design, state management, AWS provider configurations. Part of my Terraform Associate certification preparation (targeting April 2026).
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What I Work With
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Credentials
Verify: credly.com/users/shownshaiju →
Next: Terraform Associate (Apr 2026) · CKA · GCP Associate · CKS
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Let's Connect
I'm actively looking for Cloud Engineer / DevOps / SRE roles — full-time, open to relocation across India. If you're hiring or have a referral — I'd love to hear from you.