Nairobi, Kenya — Cloud & Infrastructure

MOSES
KURIA

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MOSES
KURIA
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AWS · Terraform · Networks
Nairobi, Kenya
ID: MK-2025 · SAP-C02 CERTIFIED
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Name Moses Kuria
Location Nairobi, Kenya
Specialisation AWS · Terraform · Networking · Security · Linux
Certifications
SAP-C02 SAA-C03 AIF-C01 CCNA 200-301
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THE ORIGIN

My journey in technology started with video games. Having not grown up with technology up until I was 15 resulted in the obsession of playing games with my mom's new touch screen phone in the evenings because it also dubled as a her work phone during the day. The only rule was to ensure it was fully charged by morning 😂. The curiosity to learn how games are made and why they work on certain phones and not others led me into a rabbit hole that exposed me to software development.

It was during my 1st year of campus that I had a programming unit that exposed me to computer programming. The exposure to C and C++opened a pandora's box in my mind. Writing code never felt natural.

Then came networking. Pursuing CCNA 200-301 and exposure to networking architecture of how systems communicate clicked in a way nothing else had. I graduated with a BSc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Kenyatta University and cloud was the natural next frontier.

Today I specialize in AWS architecture, Terraform automation, and production reliability. I've cut provisioning time by 85%, built event-driven pipelines that govern themselves, and kept systems at 99.9% uptime for thousands of concurrent users.

I'm now deepening my infrastructure-as-code practice — moving from console-first to Terraform-native, building reusable modules and GitOps pipelines that make cloud environments reproducible by default.

"The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is."

— Donald Knuth
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Orgs with production VPC architecture
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WHAT I DO

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CLOUD ENGINEER

AWS-certified architect designing multi-account environments, event-driven automation, and cost-optimized infrastructure. Fluent in VPC, IAM, Lambda, and the full AWS core stack. If it runs in the cloud, I want to understand and improve it.

AWS SAP-C02Multi-AccountCost Optimization
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INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

Terraform is my native language. I build reusable module libraries, enforce infrastructure consistency across environments, and replace manual processes with pipelines. Production reliability my top priority.

TerraformCI/CDIaC Automation
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

The foundation. A BSc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering gave me the systems thinking and technical rigor underlying everything I build. From circuits to cloud the mindset of understanding things at a fundamental level never left.

Systems ThinkingNetworkingCCNA 200-301
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EXPERIENCE

Amazon Web Services FEB 2025 — MAY 2025 Internship
Cloud Support Associate
  • Resolved 20+ production incidents — VPC misconfigurations, IAM errors, ELB routing failures — maintaining 95% first-contact resolution rate.
  • Designed Terraform-based simulation framework cutting incident reproduction time from 90 minutes to 10 minutes, accelerating resolution by 60%.
  • Built CI/CD pipeline via CodePipeline + CloudFormation, reducing deployment cycles from 4+ hours to under 15 minutes.
  • Presented troubleshooting methodologies across 15+ Well-Architected case studies to senior engineering teams.
Infrastructure Engineer DEC 2023 — FEB 2025
Remote — Independent
  • Architected production-grade VPC environments for 3 organisations, reducing security incidents by 40% via multi-tier subnet design and security group hierarchies.
  • Built reusable Terraform module library cutting provisioning time from 40 minutes to under 10 minutes across dev, staging, and prod.
  • Deployed Lambda + EventBridge automation pipeline enforcing tagging policies and compliance across 5 AWS accounts, reducing manual audit work by 30%.
  • Delivered high-availability infrastructure (ALB, Route 53, multi-AZ) supporting 10,000+ concurrent users at 99.9% uptime.
  • Established CloudWatch dashboards and alerting cutting MTTR from 45 minutes to 15 minutes.
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SKILLS

Infrastructure as Code
Terraform Terraform Modules State Management CloudFormation
AWS
AWS Core Services
VPC EC2 IAM S3 Lambda EventBridge CloudWatch SSM
Network Architecture
VPC Design Security Groups NACLs NAT Gateways VPN Transit Gateway Route 53
Security & Compliance
IAM Policy Design Security Hub GuardDuty CloudTrail CIS Benchmarks
GitHub Actions
CI/CD & Automation
CodePipeline GitHub Actions Bash Python Linux
Networking Protocols
OSPF BGP DNS DHCP TCP/IP Subnetting NAT
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COMMUNITY BUILDER

Moses Kuria — AWS Community Builder at AWS office
Recognition

AWS
Community
Builder

Selected as an AWS Community Builder for the Networking and Content Delivery Domain. AWS Community Builder program serves as a recognition by Amazon Web Services for individuals who actively share cloud knowledge, contribute to the community, and help others navigate the AWS ecosystem.

As a builder, I produce technical content on cloud architecture & infrastructure, Terraform, and Networking — helping engineers in Kenya,across Africa and globally access the same quality of knowledge.

12 Published Articles
AWS Community Builder
🇰🇪 Nairobi, Kenya
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EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Kenyatta University
BSc. Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Kenyatta University
Nairobi, Kenya
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AWS Solutions Architect
Professional
SAP-C02 · Nov 2025
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AWS Solutions Architect
Associate
SAA-C03 · Apr 2025
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AWS Certified AI
Practitioner
AIF-C01 · Aug 2025
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Cisco CCNA badge
Cisco CCNA
200-301
Cisco · Apr 2024
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WRITING

12 Articles Published
AWS · Terraform · Networking · Security · IaC medium.com/@MosesKuria012 ↗
AWS · Terraform
Creating a Testing/Staging Style VPC on AWS using Terraform

A practical walkthrough of architecting multi-tier VPC environments using reusable Terraform modules — covering subnet design, NAT redundancy, and security group hierarchies.

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 AWS · Automation
Building an Event-Driven Workflow with Lambda, EventBridge, and SNS Email Alerts

In a serverless, event-driven architecture, every change can trigger automated actions — here's how to wire it together end to end.

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 IAM Security · AWS
Why IAM Identity Center Matters

IAM Identity Center, successor to AWS SSO, creates a central hub to manage user access across AWS accounts and applications — rather than juggling multiple IAM users, roles, and credentials.

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 AWS · Interview
My Cloud Support Engineering Internship Interview

A blog that delves deeper into the expectations of an AWS internship interview.

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 AWS · VPC FlowLogs
Troubleshooting Internal Connectivity in an AWS VPC Using VPC Flow Logs Overview

Scenario based troubleshooting of AWS VPC using Flowlogs. The project show cases an issue a customer has when 2 ec2 instance fail to communicate in the same VPC.

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 AWS · AWS Certifications
Passed AWS Solutions Architect Professional with a Score of 833

This blog expores my preparation, resources, test scores and advise on how to tackle AWS Solutions Architect - Professional.

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 AWS · Serverless
Wallpaper as a Service

Learn how I leveraged, S3, DynamoDB, AWS Amplify, AWS Lambda, and AWS API Gateway to create a randomized wallpaper app all within the AWS Free tier.

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 AWS · Certifications
Passing SAA-C03

Tips to pass AWS SAA-C03.

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 · AWS VPC
Step-by-Step Guide to Building an AWS VPC with Public and Private Subnets, NAT Gateway, and Internet Gateway

This blog showcases how to manually create custom VPCs in AWS. It intergrates public, private subnets, NAT Gateway, Internet gateway, route tables and tests using EC2 by pinging the google server.

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 · AWS VPC
How to create VPCs and Subnets in AWS

The blog helps provide guidance on the creation of basic VPCs and Subnets in the created VPC. VPCs are private in nature but subnetting can help make certain subnets public and accessible by the public AWS services or from the public Internet.

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 ·S3 ·Route 53 ·CloudFront·ACM
Building an Online Resume on AWS using S3, Route 53, CloudFront, and ACM

The objective of the project was to create an online resume leveraging S3, Route 53, CloudFront, and ACM. The purpose of undertaking in this project is to have a resume accessible by anyone from anywhere and also demonstrate these skills to a potential employer.

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 AWS · GuardDuty
EC2 Connection Using Instance Connect vs SSH

EC Instance Connect, Session Manager, SSH client and EC2 serial console are the various ways one can connect to an EC2 Instance. For the discussion we shall cover how to connect to EC2 instances using EC2 instance Connect and SSH Client.

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Cloud infrastructure, AWS architecture, or systems that need to scale reliably. Open to full-time and contract roles — remote or Nairobi-based. If you're working on something interesting, I want to hear about it.

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