Product-minded cloud engineering / Atlanta
AWS Infrastructure & Platform Engineer
I design and build AWS infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and platform workflows with Terraform, GitHub Actions, serverless architecture, containers, observability, and explicit recovery paths.
The work starts with real operating needs and ends with systems another team can understand, operate, and own.
01 / SELECTED CLOUD SYSTEMS
Each case study shows the architecture, key decisions, tradeoffs, and implementation behind the system.
Live AWS-backed application · public walkthrough read-only
A production-shaped platform for wholesale, auction, fleet, and offsite inspection teams. It connects guided photo capture, AI-assisted review, human-confirmed damage, grading, and buyer-ready condition reporting.
Read case studyArchitecture / retained review evidence
InspectIQ
Live constrained demo · deterministic checks · external writes mocked
A constrained Terraform review demo that turns plan JSON into explainable findings, while keeping execution and external writes outside the public boundary.
Read case studyArchitecture / retained review evidence
TerraGate
Short-lived AWS validation · torn down after validation
A containerized AWS lead-intelligence API translated from operating workflows, validated during a short-lived AWS deployment, and then deliberately torn down.
Read case studyArchitecture / retained review evidence
Clearpath
Aiden Rhaa / independent builder and operator
02 / Operator profile
15+ years of delivery and 200+ client projects taught me to read a system as ownership, failure, recovery, communication, and cost—not just implementation.
I bring that perspective to AWS, Terraform, containers, serverless workflows, CI, observability, security boundaries, and the artifacts that help someone else take over responsibly.
03 / Operating principles
Each principle points to an artifact, because an operating claim should be inspectable.
01
Package the change, its infrastructure, and its validation path together.
Review Clearpath Terraform02
State the identity and write boundaries at the layer the evidence supports.
Review InspectIQ security notes03
Leave runtime proof, alarms, and qualifiers where the next operator can find them.
Review InspectIQ runtime proof04
Treat rollback, restore, and teardown as designed paths rather than improvised events.
Review the Clearpath runbook05
Pair architecture with limits and procedures so ownership can move without folklore.
Review the InspectIQ runbook04 / Supporting index
Cloud operations control plane
Governed incident, access, cost, policy, and trusted-answer workflows with explicit approval paths.
RepositoryValidated EKS and GitOps platform
A migration path from serverless retrieval to Kubernetes with observability, secrets discipline, and teardown artifacts.
RepositoryServerless transcription API
API-key access, queued workers, transcription events, webhooks, OpenAPI, an SDK, and infrastructure as code.
RepositoryGoverned media search
Private media, policy and audit records, queued failure handling, search, and cost documentation on AWS.
RepositoryDocument-processing workflow
Presigned intake, orchestration, OCR, parsing and scoring, human review, dead-letter handling, and alarms.
Repository05 / Experience
Owned lead intake, public-record research, market data, CRM integration, seller communication, and automation; translated those operating requirements into webhook, API, and cloud workflow artifacts.
Delivered 200+ client projects while coordinating contractors, vendors, budgets, timelines, technical execution, web properties, deployment workflows, and high-touch client communication.
Managed end-to-end audio and video delivery, automated media-file handling, and designed recording workflows for small-business, corporate, and education clients.
06 / Contact