Technical Leadership · Cloud Architecture · Modernization

AWS Certified Solutions Architect & Enterprise Technical Lead

I bring 20+ years of enterprise software engineering and technical leadership experience, combined with hands-on AWS architecture, application modernization, containerization, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code.

20+ Years in Technology
6+ Years Leading SEC Delivery
7 Hands-on Cloud Projects
About Me

Enterprise experience strengthened by hands-on cloud architecture

I am a Technical Project Lead and architecture-focused engineering leader with more than 20+ years of experience delivering enterprise applications across investment services, insurance, and healthcare.

As a Technical Lead supporting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, I have guided cross-functional teams, translated complex business requirements into technical solutions, led design and code reviews, resolved production issues, and supported modernization initiatives from architecture through deployment.

My recent work has focused on AWS cloud architecture and modern application delivery. I have designed and implemented projects using Amazon EC2, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Docker, Amazon ECR, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Application Load Balancers, Auto Scaling, and Terraform.

I am especially interested in roles that connect technical leadership, enterprise architecture, modernization strategy, and hands-on cloud implementation.

Core Expertise

Technology leadership across the complete delivery lifecycle

From architecture and application development to deployment, infrastructure, operations, and team leadership.

Enterprise Engineering

Java, Spring Boot, React, REST APIs, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Git, CI/CD, architecture reviews, code quality, and production support.

Principal Consultant

Enterprise technology advisory, solution architecture, stakeholder engagement, modernization strategy, technical assessments, delivery governance, risk management, and translating business needs into scalable technology solutions.

Technical Leadership

Cross-functional team leadership, stakeholder collaboration, solution design, mentoring, delivery governance, incident resolution, and modernization roadmaps.

AWS Cloud Architecture

EC2, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, VPC, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, ECR, EKS, ECS, ALB, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch.

Application Modernization

Modernizing legacy enterprise platforms into Spring Boot, React, microservices, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native deployments.

Containers & Orchestration

Docker, Docker Compose, Amazon ECR, Kubernetes Deployments, Services, Pods, Amazon EKS, worker nodes, scaling, and load balancing.

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform providers, variables, modules, state management, workspaces, reusable configuration, planning, validation, and deployment.

AWS Architecture Portfolio

Hands-on projects designed and implemented end to end

These projects demonstrate secure hosting, serverless architecture, high availability, containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure automation.

Serverless 02

AWS Interview Question Generator

Built a serverless application that retrieves and returns random AWS interview questions through a REST API. The application separates presentation, API, compute, and data layers using managed AWS services.

Architecture outcome: Event-driven, scalable solution with no server management.
Amazon S3 Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB IAM
Explore Project →
High Availability 03

Highly Available AWS Web Application

Designed and deployed a fault-tolerant web architecture across multiple Availability Zones using an Application Load Balancer, Auto Scaling Group, Launch Template, target groups, and health checks.

Architecture outcome: Self-healing compute capacity with resilient traffic distribution.
Amazon EC2 ALB Auto Scaling Multi-AZ Launch Template
Explore Project →
Containers 04

Containerized Full-Stack Application on AWS

Designed, containerized, and deployed a React and Spring Boot application using separate Docker images. Published the images to Amazon ECR and deployed them on Amazon EC2 with Docker Compose.

Architecture outcome: Portable and repeatable full-stack deployment with isolated application layers.
React Spring Boot Docker Docker Compose Amazon ECR EC2
Explore Project →
Kubernetes 05

Full-Stack Kubernetes Deployment on Amazon EKS

Orchestrated the React and Spring Boot application on Amazon EKS. Created Kubernetes Deployments and Services, pulled container images from Amazon ECR, used EC2 worker nodes, and exposed the frontend through an AWS load balancer.

Architecture outcome: Scalable, self-healing, container-orchestrated application platform.
Kubernetes Amazon EKS Amazon ECR kubectl EC2 Nodes AWS Load Balancer
Explore Project →
Infrastructure as Code 06

AWS Infrastructure Provisioning with Terraform

Created reusable Terraform configuration for AWS networking and compute resources. Practiced providers, variables, modules, dependency graphs, state files, workspaces, validation, planning, deployment, drift detection, and controlled destruction.

Architecture outcome: Repeatable and version-controlled infrastructure provisioning.
Terraform VPC Subnets EC2 Security Groups State Management
Explore Project →
Enterprise Modernization 07

Legacy Enterprise Application Modernization

Led the modernization of a legacy Oracle ADF-based SaaS application into a modern architecture using Spring Boot, React, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Docker, Amazon ECR, and Amazon ECS. Served as Technical Lead and architecture owner, guiding design decisions, reviews, production issue resolution, and cross-functional delivery.

Leadership outcome: Improved maintainability, deployment consistency, scalability, and long-term platform modernization readiness.
Oracle ADF Spring Boot React PostgreSQL Docker Amazon ECR Amazon ECS GitHub Actions
TECH CONCEPTS, SIMPLIFIED

Complex Technology. Simple Analogies.

I enjoy simplifying cloud and AI concepts through practical visual analogies. It helps translate technical architecture into ideas that engineers, stakeholders, and business teams can understand quickly.

GenAI vs RAG vs Agentic AI infographic by Dipti Uppal
AI Architecture

GenAI vs RAG vs Agentic AI

A family analogy explaining how GenAI generates responses, RAG adds relevant knowledge, and Agentic AI reasons, uses tools, and takes action toward a goal.

View Infographic →
Solution architecture questions analogy infographic by Dipti Uppal
Solution Architecture

Architecture Starts With Questions

My “Dipti Da Dhaba” analogy demonstrates why architects should understand requirements, users, scale, security, availability, and cost before selecting AWS services.

View Infographic →
Terraform construction manager analogy infographic by Dipti Uppal
Infrastructure as Code

Terraform as a Construction Manager

Terraform becomes easier to understand when infrastructure code is treated like a blueprint and Terraform becomes the construction manager responsible for building it.

View Infographic →
Kubernetes restaurant analogy infographic by Dipti Uppal
Container Orchestration

Kubernetes Through a Restaurant Analogy

A visual way to understand clusters, worker nodes, pods, deployments, services, scheduling, scaling, and self-healing.

View Infographic →
Certifications & Continuous Learning

Building cloud depth on top of enterprise engineering experience

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Architecture, security, resilience, performance, and cost optimization
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner AWS services, cloud concepts, security, billing, and support
PMP Project leadership, stakeholder management, team collaboration and and delivery.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate badge

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Let’s Connect

Open to Principal Consultant, Enterprise Architect, Cloud Architect, and Technical Leadership opportunities

I would be glad to connect regarding enterprise modernization, cloud architecture, and senior technical leadership roles.