Selma Guedidi

Designed, implemented, and maintained scalable AWS cloud infrastructure supporting containerized production and development workloads. Reduced AWS operational costs by 52% through infrastructure audits, EC2 rightsizing, and migrating long-running workloads from EKS Fargate to EKS on EC2 nodes for improved cost efficiency. Migrated containerized services from ECS to Kubernetes (EKS), improving orchestration flexibility, scalability, and deployment reliability.

Cloud & DevOps engineer at Code Once (2025-02 – Present)

• Designed, implemented, and maintained scalable AWS cloud infrastructure supporting containerized production and development workloads.
• Reduced AWS operational costs by 52% through infrastructure audits, EC2 rightsizing, and migrating long-running workloads from EKS Fargate to EKS on EC2 nodes for improved cost efficiency.
• Migrated containerized services from ECS to Kubernetes (EKS), improving orchestration flexibility, scalability, and deployment reliability.
• Built and operated a production-grade observability platform using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager, and Alloy, enabling proactive monitoring, centralized logging, and real-time alerting via Google Chat.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, applying Infrastructure as Code best practices to ensure reproducible and reliable environments.
• Optimized and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, improving build stability and accelerating deployment cycles.
• Implemented GitOps-based Kubernetes deployments with Argo CD, ensuring consistent and traceable releases to production environments.
• Collaborated closely with development and QA teams to troubleshoot infrastructure issues, resolve application deployment problems, and improve overall system reliability.
• Mentored interns and junior engineers on Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure best practices, supporting knowledge sharing and team productivity.

Devops engineer intern at Elyadata (2024-07 – 2024-08)

• Implemented Jenkins Configuration as Code to automate infrastructure setup, enhancing scalability and reproducibility of Jenkins environments.
• Integrated Kubernetes with Jenkins to enable dynamic provisioning of agents and utilized Job DSL to automate the creation of pipelines, folder structures, and precise user permission configurations.

Research intern at Morgan State University: data science and cloud lab (2024-02 – 2024-05)

• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for efficient integration and deployment of backend servers and frontend applications on AWS.
• Deployed a Flask backend server on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, integrated with an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL database for scalable and reliable storage solutions.
• Configured Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail for comprehensive monitoring, log management, and activity auditing, improving application visibility and security.

Full-Stack developer intern at CareerBoosts (2023-06 – 2023-08)

• Implemented new features with a focus on user interaction and visual appeal, enhancing the overall platform experience.
• Reduced API latency by optimizing data aggregation with PyMongo, resulting in improved system performance.
• Developed impactful data visualizations using D3.js, enhancing data representation and user comprehension.

Software engineering in Software Engineering – National Institute of Applied Science and Technology (INSAT) (2020 – 2025)