Arif Rahman
Graduate tech roles
About

Bridging engineering decisions and business goals.

I’m a Cloud Engineering student focused on building scalable infrastructure that drives business efficiency. I translate goals such as faster delivery, stronger continuity, lower operational risk and responsible resource use into practical AWS, automation, security and networking decisions.

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.

Certifications

05 earned
AWS

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

Amazon Web Services

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS (S3, EC2, VPC, Lambda, RDS)
  • Multi-AZ architectures
  • Networking
  • Terraform
  • Docker

Security & Identity

  • IAM
  • Cognito
  • Active Directory
  • Security Groups / NACLs
  • ISO 27001

Data & ML

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • Scikit-Learn
  • NoSQL (DynamoDB)
  • Data analysis & visualisation

Delivery & APIs

  • RESTful API design
  • Git
  • Agile / Scrum
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions

Networking

  • Cisco Networking
  • VLANs
  • ACLs
  • DMZ
  • NAT
  • Packet Tracer

Background

  • 2023 — 2027

    BSc Cloud Engineering

    Final-year undergraduate with modules in cloud computing, distributed systems, networks, security and machine learning.

  • 2025 — present

    AWS Cloud Quest & hands-on labs

    Completed Cloud Practitioner and Generative AI Practitioner badges through scenario-based AWS projects.

  • 2024 — present

    Self-directed cloud projects

    Built multi-AZ AWS migrations, serverless apps, enterprise networks and ML pipelines, documented on GitHub.