Vikas A.

Is your AWS account cost increasing faster than your business? Is your infrastructure not secure, scalable, or resilient enough to support your growth? Is a HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or SOC 2 audit coming up, and you are not sure your AWS account is compliant enough? Unsure about taking the first step into the cloud? If yes, you are at the right place. WHO I AM I am Vikas. I have 8 years hands-on on AWS and 26 years in IT. AWS Solutions Architect Professional and Terraform Associate certified. I work with SaaS companies in healthcare, fintech, and general B2B. I design, build and manage their AWS infrastructure. AWS architecture and DevOps are my core skills and I specialize in HIPAA, SOC 2 and PCI-DSS gap analysis and remediation for the clients. I work AI-augmented — using modern tools (Claude, Kiro) to move faster on implementation while keeping every architectural decision under my own judgment. WHAT I HAVE BUILT AND RUN ★ Full AWS setup for an Australian IT services company — 5-year retained client. Built on Terraform. EC2, RDS, SQS, SNS, Lambda, API Gateway, WAF. Now extending into Amazon Connect. ★ Another continuing 1.5-year engagement with a Singapore client — built an active-active 3-tier SaaS on AWS. Multi-region setup with cost-aware design. Currently in retainership. ★ HIPAA/ SOC 2 readiness assessment and remediation (technical) of AWS account for a US based IT consulting and services firm specializing in healthcare. ★ HIPAA-compliant AWS for a Canadian healthcare SaaS — built end-to-end on Terraform. Networking, IAM, KMS encryption, Multi-AZ Aurora, VPC endpoints, encrypted S3, CloudTrail with KMS. Also guided them through the AWS Business Associate Addendum (BAA). The client wrote: "Valuable recommendations regarding HIPAA compliance and system security. We are already planning to work with him on the next stage of our project." ★ PCI-DSS AWS remediation for a financial services AWS Organization — fixed infrastructure gaps across multiple accounts. Scrut compliance score for AWS moved from 42% to 81% in three weeks. Provided necessary evidences for compliance. ★ Java application containerization for an enterprise client — moved their applications to ECS. Architecture design plus Terraform deployment. WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU → Build new AWS environments from scratch (VPC, ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, monitoring) → Implement AWS Landing Zones and Organizations → DevOps and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation) → HIPAA, SOC 2 and PCI-DSS gap analysis/remediation — I build the AWS side. I am not a QSA and I do not write policies. That is a separate job → Compliance remediation using Scrut, Vanta, or Drata → Cost reduction (right-sizing, savings plans, storage tiers, better architecture decisions) → Terraform import of your entire AWS infrastructure setup using my proprietary developed solution. → Long-term retainer work — I can be your senior architect for months and years, not just one project → Upgrading end of life RDS to the fully supported version (just completed upgrading MySQL 8.0 to 8.4 for a client). HOW I WORK → Clear communication from day one. Written scope. Weekly updates. Quick replies. → Clean handover documentation at the end of every project. → I take only a few projects at a time. You work with me directly, not with juniors. → I tell you what is risky before we start, not after. WHEN I AM A GOOD FIT ✓ Startups or growing SaaS that need a senior AWS architect or DevOps engineer ✓ Teams that want a long-term architect, not a one-time contractor ✓ Healthcare, fintech, or payment SaaS with HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or SOC 2 gap analysis/remediation ✓ Teams fixing an AWS setup that has to pass an audit ✓ Founders who want an honest opinion, not a sales pitch WHEN I AM NOT A GOOD FIT ✗ Full PCI-DSS audit work — that is a QSA's job ✗ HIPAA policy writing or compliance officer work ✗ Lowest-price hourly work CREDENTIALS → AWS Solutions Architect — Professional → HashiCorp Terraform Associate → Top Rated Plus (Top 3% of talent) on Upwork, 100% Job Success Score → Published author on AWS in Plain English and AWS Tip TECH STACK AWS (EC2, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, S3, VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Organizations, SSM, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, WAF, CloudFront, Amazon Connect, SQS, SNS), Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, Linux, Python, Bash, Scrut, Vanta, Drata. LET'S TALK If you need an AWS architect for design, build, day-to-day operation, or compliance work — send me a short message. Tell me where you are, what your stack looks like, and what is the main problem. I will reply within 24 hours with an honest answer on whether I am the right person for the work.