Arif Rahman
Graduate tech roles
Final-year BSc Cloud Engineering · Coventry University United Kingdom

I build and document cloud infrastructure on AWS.

Arif Rahman

I’m Arif Rahman, graduating June 2027 and looking for a graduate tech role in the United Kingdom. Below are 14 projects I’ve built and written up: multi-AZ AWS migrations, Terraform and CloudFormation, Docker, security frameworks and an ML pipeline. Each one links to its code and evidence.

Graduating
June 2027
Looking for
Graduate tech roles
Right to work
British citizen, no sponsorship
Right now
AWS SAA-C03 in progress · learning Kubernetes
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The toolkit I build withSee specialisms ↓

All projects

14 total

Academic and personal projects are labelled as such. Every card links to the case study and, where the work is on GitHub, to the code.

Amazon Web Services

8 case studies

Cloud infrastructure, security and serverless work built on AWS.

  • 01 / 2025

    Cloud Security Framework — CivicNexus

    Academic cloud security architecture project

    Hardened layered security for a Smart City Operations Platform

    AWSVPC DesignSecurity GroupsNACLsPrivate Subnets
    Business value

    For smart-city operators responsible for sensitive citizen, personnel and IoT data, this framework replaces public exposure and ad-hoc controls with an auditable security model. In the project assessment, two Critical risks scored 9 were reduced to Low, while a three-node database design improved planned service resilience.

  • 02 / 2025

    Machine Learning Predictive Modeling Pipeline

    Machine learning portfolio project

    Stroke prediction and credit-card customer segmentation, end to end

    PythonScikit-LearnPandasNumPyMatplotlib
    Business value

    For clinical screening and financial analytics teams, this pipeline turns imbalanced, unstructured datasets into decision-ready risk and customer insights. In benchmark testing, tuning lifted stroke recall from 0% in the misleading high-accuracy baseline to 80%, while segmentation produced four actionable customer groups.

  • 03 / 2025

    Enterprise Network — TechBridge

    Academic network architecture project

    Two-site enterprise network with HSRP redundancy, VLANs and IPSec site-to-site VPN

    Cisco IOSPacket TracerTwo-Tier Collapsed CoreOSPFStatic Routing
    Business value

    For a growing two-site business, this design removes single points of failure, fragmented addressing and insecure inter-site traffic. It provides capacity for 50% headcount growth without re-addressing, uses gateway redundancy to minimise downtime, and passed 18 end-to-end validation tests.

  • 04 / 2026

    Starling Digital Cloud Migration

    Personal cloud architecture project

    Multi-tier AWS migration with AD, ALB, ASG and automated bootstrapping

    AWS VPCEC2ALBASGRDS
    Business value

    For a regulated digital-services team, this architecture replaces manually managed, single-instance infrastructure with a secure and scalable AWS operating model. Multi-AZ services and a 2–4 instance Auto Scaling range improve continuity and resource utilisation, while central identity and reusable bootstrapping reduce repeat configuration effort and access risk.

  • 05 / 2025

    Amazon QuickSight — S3 Data Visualisation

    Personal AWS project

    Turning a raw 8,807-row S3 dataset into an interactive BI dashboard

    Amazon QuickSightAmazon S3SPICEmanifest.jsonBusiness Intelligence
    Business value

    For content and commercial analysts, this dashboard removes the need to download raw files or write one-off queries before answering routine catalogue questions. It converted 8,807 records into six decision-ready visuals in roughly two hours, creating a faster and repeatable path from source data to insight.

  • 06 / 2025

    Amazon Lex — Banking Chatbot with Custom Slots

    Personal AWS project

    A conversational banking bot: intents, custom slots and verified balance checks

    Amazon LexNLUIntents & SlotsIAMConversation Design
    Business value

    For retail banking service teams and customers, this prototype shifts repetitive greeting and balance enquiries toward secure self-service. It demonstrates automated handling across two core intents, captures account context, and introduces date-of-birth verification before sensitive information is returned.

  • 07 / 2026

    AWS KMS — Encrypting a DynamoDB Database

    Personal AWS project

    Customer-managed keys, encryption at rest and proving unauthorised access fails

    AWS KMSAmazon DynamoDBAWS IAMKey PoliciesEncryption at Rest
    Business value

    For teams managing sensitive or regulated records, this control gives the organisation direct authority over who can decrypt its database rather than relying only on provider-owned keys. The test proved unauthorised reads were blocked and limited approved access to five explicit cryptographic actions, reducing data-exposure and audit risk.

  • 14 / 2026

    CloudFormation + GitHub Actions — Plan-Letting Platform

    Academic infrastructure-as-code project (in progress)

    VPC, subnets and an Apache web server as code, deployed by a CI pipeline

    AWS CloudFormationGitHub ActionsVPCSubnets & Route TablesInternet Gateway
    Business value

    For a hospitality platform that needs repeatable environments, this replaces console clicking with a version-controlled CloudFormation template that a GitHub Actions workflow deploys on demand. Every change is reviewable in a pull request and re-running the pipeline updates the stack in place, so environments stop drifting and rollbacks are a git revert away.

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Specialisms

AWS Core

VPC · EC2 · ALB · ASG · S3 · RDS · DynamoDB

Containers

Docker · Compose · ECR · Kubernetes basics

IaC & Automation

Terraform · CloudFormation · Bash · CI/CD

Security & Identity

IAM · Simple AD · Security Groups · ISO 27001

Networking

Cisco · Routing · VPN · Subnetting

Data & ML

Python · Pandas · Scikit-Learn · Modelling

Candidate fit

Candidate Fit Assessment

Evidence-cited fit, category by category.

Every rating below cites the project evidence behind it — academic and personal projects are labelled as such throughout.

Cloud Engineering

STRONG FIT

VPC, EC2, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, ALB and Auto Scaling used across 8 AWS builds with documented outcomes, from a multi-AZ migration to a CloudFormation pipeline.

Cloud Security

STRONG FIT

ISO/IEC 27005 risk assessment on CivicNexus — 2 Critical risks (scored 9) treated down to Low across 4 hardened layers; KMS envelope encryption on DynamoDB.

Networking

STRONG FIT

Two-site enterprise network (TechBridge) with HSRP redundancy, VLAN segmentation and IPSec VPN — passed 18 end-to-end validation tests.

Containers / Docker

STRONG FIT

4 containerisation projects: multi-container Flask + Redis app, Docker Compose multi-service stack, and a full ECR private registry pipeline.

IaC & Terraform

STRONG FIT

Starling Digital multi-tier migration with automated bootstrapping and a 2–4 instance Auto Scaling range, plus WordPress and cloud-init EC2 builds written in Terraform.

Kubernetes & CI/CD

DEVELOPING

GitHub Actions pipeline deploying a CloudFormation stack (Plan-Letting v1); Kubernetes basics in progress and the current primary learning focus alongside deeper Terraform module design.

Certifications

STRONG FIT

AWS Cloud Practitioner and AWS Generative AI Practitioner earned; AWS Solutions Architect — Associate (SAA-C03) in progress.

Bottom-line verdictBottom line: the evidence points to a strong fit for cloud engineering, DevOps and platform roles. The strengths are grounded in named projects with measured outcomes — not self-assessment — and the development areas (Kubernetes, production CI/CD at scale) are exactly what I'm working on now. Academic and personal projects are labelled as such throughout.

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Certifications

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AWS Solutions Architect — Associate (SAA-C03)In progress

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About me

Curiosity drives the architecture; Red Bull just keeps my lights on.

I have an obsessive curiosity problem — in the best way. When an itch for a problem needs scratching, I do not look for shortcuts. I go from the ground up, whatever it takes, until I genuinely understand the thing. That is how I taught myself Terraform, how I rebuilt a multi-AZ AWS migration, and how I ended up reading AWS release notes for fun.

Away from the screen I am just as hands-on: wrestling and grappling martial arts, following every Formula 1 race weekend, and genuinely enjoying meeting, speaking and socialising with people. I am high-energy and outgoing — but I back it up with a relentless technical drive. I will talk your ear off about cloud security, then spend the next six hours quietly fixing the IAM policy until it is bulletproof.

What I value most about cloud engineering is turning a business requirement into a dependable system. The measure of success is the outcome: less manual effort, lower risk, better continuity and an architecture a team can understand, operate and grow.

Fuel
Red Bull, far too much of it 🐂
Favourite service
VPC — everything interesting starts with the network
Guilty pleasure
Reading AWS release notes for fun
Off the clock
Wrestling, Formula 1, football, gaming and tinkering in my homelab
Currently learning
Kubernetes and deeper Terraform module design
Goal
Cloud & Platform Engineering — actively looking

Recruiting for tech roles?

Every project is documented with architecture decisions and verification evidence. Happy to walk through any of them on a call.

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