Abrar Syed, a professional AWS Cloud Engineer based in Bangalore.

Abrar Syed

Cloud Engineer

Resume

experience icon Experience

Independent Cloud Architecture & R&D
November 2025 – Present

Project: Autonomous Infrastructure AI Agent (System Architecture Phase)

Architecting a production-grade, AI-driven deployment engine designed to translate natural language into secure, cost-optimized Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).

  • System Architecture & Logic Design: Designed the core operating model for an autonomous deployment agent prioritizing opinionated, industry-standard Terraform module generation over raw resource blocks to ensure scalable, zero-trust cloud architectures.
  • Safety & Execution Guardrails: Conceptualized a rigorous pre-deployment validation pipeline requiring mandatory terraform plan dry-runs, human-readable change summaries, and explicit user confirmation to prevent accidental infrastructure drift.
  • Destructive Action Interception: Architected a custom interception layer designed to parse execution plans and strictly block operations violating project boundaries or attempting irreversible destructive actions.
  • Technologies and concepts: Terraform (HCL), AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Docker.

Project: Agenthic — AI Agent Infrastructure Platform

Architected a purpose-built infrastructure platform for AI agent lifecycle management. Designed a deterministic knowledge retrieval system using custom .index and .map formats, replacing probabilistic RAG pipelines to enable precise document retrieval and live infrastructure dependency tracking.

  • Deterministic Retrieval Architecture: Designed a hierarchical indexing engine to replace traditional RAG pipelines, mapping table of contents headings to exact file references without relying on vector embeddings.
  • Infrastructure State Memory: Architected a live dependency tracking layer by parsing Terraform state files into dependency graphs, defining relationship mappings (REQUIRES, DEPENDS_ON) to ensure lifecycle consistency.
  • Safety & Execution Guardrails: Conceptualized a custom Go-based Terraform interception system designed to strictly block autonomous code deletion risks and enforce auto-remediation safety nets prior to execution.
  • Technologies and concepts: Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines.
Independent Architecture & Professional Upskilling
January 2024 – October 2025

Engineered production-grade cloud infrastructure and CI/CD workflows during a dedicated technical upskilling period, prioritizing modularity, zero-downtime migrations, and automated deployments.

Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD

  • Standardized infrastructure delivery by creating reusable Terraform modules for multi-tier architectures.
  • Automated the deployment of a dynamic Node.js web application by engineering a CI/CD pipeline integrating Jenkins, Docker, and Docker Compose.
  • Architected a highly available Amazon EKS cluster for AI microservices, deploying the AWS Load Balancer Controller via native Linux commands and kubectl manifests to maintain granular infrastructure control.

Cloud Migrations & Data Architecture

  • Executed a cross-cloud migration of MySQL database from Azure to AWS RDS using AWS DMS (Full Load + CDC), executing end-to-end transfers with zero data loss.

Serverless Workflows & Edge Delivery

  • Developed serverless workflows utilizing AWS Lambda, triggered by S3 events, to automate file compression and dispatch email notifications upon object creation.
  • Deployed a highly available static website on Amazon S3, routing traffic via Route 53 and optimizing edge performance utilizing CloudFront caching.
ArBa Development Studios Pvt Ltd.

AWS Cloud Engineer

June 2019 - January 2023

Bangalore, India

  • Automated infrastructure provisioning for an e-commerce platform using Terraform (EC2, RDS, VPC).
  • Designed a multi-tier fault-tolerant architecture on AWS, ensuring high availability.
  • Deployed a Node.js web application using Elastic Beanstalk, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch Alarms.
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines for multiple clients using AWS CodePipeline and GitHub.
  • Migrated 2+ on-premises MySQL database to AWS Aurora via AWS DMS.
  • Migrated DNS from GoDaddy to AWS Route 53.
  • Optimized AWS cost management by identifying and terminating idle resources (EC2, RDS, ALB, Elastic IPs).
  • Configured CloudFront caching to reduce data transfer costs and improve performance.
  • Implemented S3 lifecycle policies to automatically transition data to cost-effective storage classes.

education icon Education

Bachelor of Engineering - 2015
Electronics and Communication

Ghousia College of Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University

education icon Nonformal Education

Unveiling AWS: A Journey of Discovery and Mastery

Unveiling AWS has empowered me with crucial cloud computing skills, enabling the design of scalable and secure solutions while enhancing my ability to innovate effectively.
Online

Unveiling Azure

Unveiling Azure has enabled me to master cloud computing, empowering the creation of dynamic and secure solutions.
Online

Decoding Terraform

Unveiling Terraform has honed my skills in infrastructure as code, enabling efficient and automated cloud resource management.
Online

Skills

AWS Intermediate
Azure Intermediate
Linux Intermediate
Kubernetes Intermediate
Docker Intermediate
CI-CD Intermediate
Terraform Intermediate