Samuel Mamootil
samuelrajumamootil@gmail.com | Arlington, TX | linkedin.com/in/samuel-mamootil | github.com/samuelmamootil/ReRhythm
Professional Summary
Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer and platform specialist with 7+ years across AWS, Azure, and GCP, making infrastructure "invisible" so developers ship faster. Helps enterprises like H&M and Siemens accelerate by automating routine operations and hardening security with Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD, ECS, EKS, and Docker. Led teams delivering cloud migration and platform engineering at Wipro and IBM; built award-winning AWS solutions and hackathon projects at UTA.
Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-303, AZ-304)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-103)
Technical Skills
- Cloud Platforms
- AWS, Azure, GCP
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Bicep, Ansible
- CI/CD & DevOps
- GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
- Containers & Orchestration
- Docker, EKS, ECS Fargate, Kubernetes, Helm
- Security & Networking
- IAM, VPC / Private Endpoints, Firewall Rules, TLS, SonarQube
- Programming & Data
- C#, .NET Core, Python, Bash, PowerShell, SQL, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, PHP
Professional Experience
Student Web Developer (Part-time)
Jun 2025 – Present
- Maintain and update College of Business web applications and site content to ensure high usability, reliability, and seamless platform operations.
- Execute digital content updates under the direction of the Marketing and Communications Director, managing campaign pages and event-related site modifications.
- Selected by faculty as a representative student for a college-wide promotional video campaign, collaborating with marketing to highlight departmental initiatives.
- Troubleshoot and resolve site issues to support the digital infrastructure for major college events and communications.
Tech Lead
Feb 2024 – Apr 2025
- Led a 7-engineer team to modernize Alight Solutions' cloud platform, improving deployment speed and predictability with standardized CI/CD and infrastructure automation.
- Created and maintained a shared Terraform module library used across teams, reducing manual setup and guaranteeing consistent, secure infrastructure for new environments.
- Implemented blue–green deployment pipelines for Alight Solutions, removing release-time outages and allowing the team to ship during business hours.
- Provisioned AWS infrastructure across EC2, ECS, EKS, VPC, ALB, NLB, Route 53, S3, EBS, and EFS to support scalable production workloads with Redshift, Glue, and Lambda.
- Hardened cloud security with tightened IAM permissions and real-time CloudWatch monitoring, catching potential issues before business impact.
Junior Tech Lead
Nov 2021 – Feb 2024
- Delivered cloud migration and modernization projects across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including landing zones, deployment automation, and secure infrastructure patterns.
- Built Terraform-based cloud infrastructure for H&M, Siemens, Nokia, and Südzucker, enabling scalable provisioning and environment standardization across client platforms.
- Developed GitHub Actions YAML pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments, improving CI/CD automation, consistency, and release efficiency.
- Led the migration of 100+ application servers to Azure for H&M, supporting infrastructure provisioning, deployment automation, and cloud migration execution.
- Implemented secure network patterns using private endpoints, VPC endpoints, firewall rules, and TLS controls to reduce public exposure of backend services.
- H&M: Azure migration with Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps — landing zone setup, security scanning, and deployment automation.
- Siemens: AWS infrastructure with Terraform, containerized apps on EKS, Helm-based releases with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD.
- Nokia: Azure landing zones and Terraform-based deployment workflows for migration consistency and environment standardization.
- Südzucker: GCP infrastructure provisioning and deployment automation using Terraform and GitHub Actions.
Software Engineer
Apr 2018 – Nov 2021
- Built internal tools and automated Azure infrastructure delivery using infrastructure as code and DevOps workflows for cloud migration initiatives.
- Developed a PHP-based web portal showcasing Cloud Practice service offerings, improving how clients understood and evaluated cloud capabilities.
- Built a one-click migration automation platform using Terraform and REST APIs to streamline infrastructure provisioning and orchestration.
- Implemented security controls for Azure environments using SonarQube, Coverity, WhiteSource, TLS 1.2, and private endpoint configurations.
- Automated Azure DevOps workflows with PowerShell, DSC, and ARM templates; supported Azure Data Factory and ETL-related implementations.
Junior Developer
Aug 2017 – Apr 2018
- Developed Android applications using MVVM architecture to improve code maintainability, modular design, and feature scalability.
- Implemented application features and UI components that improved code organization and supported long-term maintainability.
Competition Projects
ReRhythm — AI-Powered Career Coaching Platform
UTA Symposium 2026
- Built an AI-powered career coach (.NET + AWS Bedrock) that won 2nd runner-up at UTA Symposium by turning resumes into personalized career growth maps.
- Integrated AWS Textract for resume parsing and AWS Bedrock for personalized roadmap generation and skill-based learning paths.
- Designed and deployed secure AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation, ECS Fargate, ECR, DynamoDB, VPC endpoints, private subnets, IAM, and KMS.
- Automated deployments with GitHub Actions and OIDC authentication; enforced deployment-time firewall controls for secure access.
- Implemented moderation and safety controls using AWS Rekognition, AWS Comprehend, profanity filtering, and spam detection.
Education
Master of Science in Information Systems
Expected May 2026
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
Honors
- Second Runner-up — ReRhythm AI Application | AWS Competition, UTA Symposium 2026
- Best Team Award — Parexel Project | LTI
- Best Team Award — Gen-Re Project | LTI