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A closer look at the end-to-end cloud and DevOps journeys powering Chirag Jhamnani's portfolio.

Cloud Resume Challenge
Cloud Architecture

Cloud Resume Challenge

An AWS-first implementation of the popular challenge that blends static web hosting, serverless backends, and infrastructure as code to showcase production-ready fundamentals.

  • Focus: Serverless DevOps
  • Status: In progress
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Solution Overview

The resume experience is powered by an AWS stack that keeps the site lightning-fast while tracking visitor engagement in real time.

Core Services

  • Amazon S3 with CloudFront for globally cached static hosting.
  • Route 53 for custom domain and SSL termination.
  • Lambda + API Gateway to update a DynamoDB visitor counter.
  • GitHub Actions for automated deploys.

Learning Gains

  • Hands-on practice with infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Operational insights through logging, monitoring, and cost governance.
  • End-to-end delivery mindset from UX to backend automation.
DevSecOps Netflix Deployment
DevSecOps

Netflix Deployment Pipeline

A production-style delivery pipeline that combines automated security scanning, container orchestration, and GitOps for a Netflix clone application.

  • Focus: Secure CI/CD
  • Status: Recently completed
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Pipeline Highlights

From code commit to monitored production workload, every stage is automated and instrumented.

  • Local Docker build backed by The Movie Database (TMDB) API for feature testing.
  • Quality gates powered by SonarQube, Trivy, and OWASP Dependency-Check.
  • Jenkins-driven CI/CD that pushes hardened images to Docker Hub and triggers deployments.
  • Kubernetes workloads deployed to Amazon EKS with Argo CD handling GitOps synchronization.
  • Observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Node Exporter) for proactive monitoring.
  • Automated clean-up tasks to optimize AWS spend post-deployment.
Microservices

Stan's Robot Shop

A sample microservice application simulating an e-commerce store. Designed as a sandbox to learn container orchestration, monitoring, and load testing with a modern cloud-native stack.

  • Focus: Microservices & Monitoring
  • Status: Active demo
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Stan's Robot Shop

Application Highlights

A polyglot microservice stack with monitoring and observability baked in.

  • Frontend: AngularJS (1.x) storefront.
  • Backend: NodeJS (Express), Java (Spring Boot), Python (Flask), Go, PHP.
  • Data Layer: MongoDB, MySQL (with Maxmind), Redis.
  • Messaging with RabbitMQ.
  • Nginx as the web gateway.
  • Instana auto-tracing and Prometheus metrics endpoints.
  • Locust-based load generator for traffic simulation.
  • Deployable via Docker Compose, Kubernetes (Helm), or DC/OS.