I'm Pritish Anand, an AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer who keeps production environments running across 20+ enterprise accounts. I hold the AWS Golden Jacket, earned a re:Invent 2025 Builders Grant, and somehow ended up on a billboard in Times Square.
I'm an AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer at SUDO Consultants, an AWS Premier Partner, where I look after production AWS across 20+ enterprise accounts and keep them running at roughly 99.9% availability. Most of my week is spent in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, cloud security, and the kind of incident response where staying calm matters more than typing fast.
The thing I'm proudest of is the Golden Jacket. I cleared every active AWS certification by 24, which puts me in a very small group worldwide. That curiosity is also what got me the AWS re:Invent 2025 Builders Grant, a spot on an AWS billboard in Times Square, and a Guinness World Records application as a candidate for youngest Golden Jacket achiever.
When I'm not in the console, I'm usually teaching. I've spoken about cloud careers and AWS at 10+ Indian universities, including IIITs, in front of thousands of students, and I share what I learn with 20,000+ engineers on LinkedIn. I genuinely like making hard cloud concepts feel simple.
Beyond AWS: HashiCorp Terraform Associate, plus certifications in Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud (4×), and Salesforce (2×).
This is where I do my best work. I keep production AWS healthy across 20+ enterprise accounts, holding around 99.9% availability. I design VPC networks from the ground up (subnets, route tables, Transit Gateway, Client and Site-to-Site VPN), write reusable Terraform so environments come up the same way every time, and lock things down with IAM least-privilege, security groups, and KMS encryption.
When something breaks, I'm usually the one tracing it. I run monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana, lead root-cause analysis with senior engineers, and automate the boring parts in Python and Bash. One project I'm fond of: an AMI lifecycle automation on Lambda that quietly cut storage costs 60 to 70% and shrank our image inventory from a few hundred down to around 40.
I owned production card-manufacturing systems running across data centres in Dallas, Tours, and Atlanta, where downtime simply wasn't an option. This is also where I leaned fully into AWS: I built CloudWatch dashboards and proactive alarms that cut incident resolution time by about 25%, and set up IAM, security groups, and KMS encryption to keep everything compliant. A lot of my instinct for digging into root causes was sharpened here.
My first real taste of keeping production alive. I watched the health and performance of cloud and production systems across data centres, responded to alerts, and escalated when it mattered. Day to day meant Linux administration, log management and housekeeping, firewall and access troubleshooting, and supporting secure file transfer over TSFT, FTP, and SFTP.
Where it all started. I customised the MBT testing tool and ran 100+ test cases across releases, which cut test-script creation time by 40% and defect resolution by 30%. Fifteen sprints and 200+ Jira tasks later, I knew I wanted to build and operate systems for a living.
Glimpses from re:Invent in Las Vegas: the Golden Jacket crew, the AWS Certified neon, and my first year on the floor.
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