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Most startups find me at the same moment. Their AWS costs are growing faster than revenue, and deployments are taking longer than anyone expected. Healthcare teams find me for a different reason. They need their AWS environment to meet the HIPAA Security Rule's technical safeguards before real patient data goes in. I build and review HIPAA-aligned AWS infrastructure: encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access control, audit logging, backups and retention, and an architecture that supports signing a Business Associate Agreement with AWS. I'm Mouad, an Amazon Web Services Cloud Architect and HashiCorp Certified Terraform Engineer. I've built and automated production cloud infrastructure at an Amazon Web Services Partner Company and for clients across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, from pre-launch infrastructure setup for SaaS startups to enterprise Kubernetes migrations and full DevOps automation. Recent projects: HIPAA-aligned AWS platform for a residential care management SaaS. Moved a Next.js and PostgreSQL application to AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Cognito) with encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access control, audit logging, session security, encrypted S3 storage and a backup strategy. Added append-only history tables for 3-year record retention and full-record exports for state audits. Led an end-to-end Kubernetes migration for an enterprise client. Containerized a legacy monolith with Docker, deployed to Amazon EKS with Helm, configured autoscaling and RBAC, and cut release cycles from two weeks to two days. Designed and delivered a complete DevOps automation and CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and GitHub Actions. Automated the full deployment workflow including build, test, containerization, and zero-downtime rollout to Amazon Web Services. Performed an infrastructure audit and cost optimization on an Amazon Web Services environment. Identified misconfigured resources and unused capacity. Client reduced monthly spend by 35% within 30 days. Migrated websites and applications from shared hosting to Amazon Web Services. Configured EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, SSL via ACM, and Route 53. Zero downtime. Zero data loss. HIPAA and healthcare work I take on: HIPAA security review of an existing AWS environment, with a prioritized list of gaps and fixes. Migration of a healthcare application to HIPAA-eligible AWS services. Encryption, access control and audit logging setup. Backup, retention and disaster recovery planning. Documentation your compliance team can use in an audit. HIPAA also covers policies and administrative safeguards, so I handle the technical side and work alongside your compliance lead. Here's what I work on day to day: I design Amazon Web Services environments including VPC, EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch, built for high availability and cost efficiency from the start. I write every line of Terraform as certified, documented, reusable code. I build CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI. I manage Kubernetes clusters on EKS with Helm, handle server provisioning with Ansible, and set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana. On the serverless side I work with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, and SNS. My stack: Amazon Web Services, HIPAA-aligned architecture, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Ansible, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Linux, Python, Bash, Nginx. HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate (2024). 100% client satisfaction across 50+ cloud infrastructure projects delivered for clients across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Previously worked as an Amazon Web Services Cloud Architect at an AWS Partner Company. I respond within 1 hour, communicate in English, French, or Arabic, and every project ships with documentation your team can actually use. I don't just deliver and disappear. I build infrastructure that's still running six months after I hand it over. If you run a healthcare, care or SaaS platform that handles patient data on AWS, send me a message. First conversation is free.