Alex Zumkhawala

Professional experience

Experienced IQ Expert

• Twenty years of experience building secure micro-services and web apps.
• Fantastic early adoption consultant
• AWS Amplify expert, GitHub code contributor

My IQ clients have hired me to build serverless apps with AppSync, CI/CD pipelines, Amplify app projects, IoT projects, Machine Learning StepFunction workflow, and IVS video conference integration. I can build across the full stack. I don't fear chaos.

I specialize in starting projects quickly. Ask me anything about security. I handle developer operations too. I love Cloud9, it's my most favorite IDE. On Cloud9, I have hundreds of CloudFormation templates lying around to leverage in delivery.

Active participant in community and conferences. References available upon request.

Docker Based Solutions:

• Build secure vpc’s with load balancers, private link endpoints, and peering connections.

• Wrote Java and Kotlin apps that load and store data with AWS RDS, AWS S3, AWS DynamoDB, and MongoDb.

• Securely published apis with AWS API Gateway, AWS Route 53, and AWS Certificates. The APIs are safe from DoS attacks, X-Site Scripting, and api key spoofing.

Lambda Based Solutions:

• Deployed lambdas for online marketing solutions.

• Published several multi-modal Alexa skills, on AWS Lambda with NodeJS.

• My website https://SpicyKey.com has a brief case study for the Brookfield Smart Home powered by Amazon Alexa.

• Alexa skill stack: AWS Cloud9, AWS CodeStar, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipelines.

• My CloudFormation templates are in the Serverless Application Model (SAM).

Security Solutions:

• Write secure IAM policies

• S3 bucket policies and policies for services such as AWS ECS.

• Secure container based apps with AWS KMS, AWS Parameter Store, and AWS ECS.

• Hardening EC2 servers with shell scripts.

Prototypes and Beta Solutions:

• Built experimental prototypes for customers with streaming services. Prototyped a serverless IoT event collector with AWS Firehose, AWS Kinesis, and AWS Elastic Search.

• Built experimental react web apps with AWS AppSync, AWS S3, and AWS CloudFront.

• Built custom micro service monitoring solutions with AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, and Grafana.

• Participated in betas such as AWS Glue with Machine Learning transforms. Demonstrated AWS Sagemaker to potential clients.

• Integrated Textract and Comprehend with S3 and Kendra.

• Published YouTube video "Alexa and Sphero" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQKDmZCYI5M - demonstrating a secure voice controlled toy. The prototype Alexa skill gave a user control over a toy robot. The server based solution is architected with AWS Lambda, AWS EC2, and AWS ELB, and demonstrates end-to-end encryption. On my voice YouTube channel.

• Spoke at meetups on app testing with off cloud, tools. Slides available upon request. I like writing.

Stack:

• Kotlin
• Java
• Go
• React
• NodeJS
• Spring Boot
• MongoDB
• Postgres
• MySQL
• Docker
• Cloudformation