I design secure, scalable AWS infrastructure and translate architecture decisions into clear business outcomes. My work covers multi-account governance, serverless systems, high-availability platforms, and containerized workloads.
Production-grade AWS architecture built with Terraform, documented to Well-Architected standards
Problem: Single-account AWS environments share blast radius across all teams and provide no policy enforcement boundary between environments.
Solution: Designed a four-OU organization with 8 SCPs, GuardDuty org-wide threat detection, centralized CloudTrail, and IAM Identity Center for federated access across all accounts.
Problem: Single-server WordPress deployments lose all traffic during any hardware failure, OS patch, or AZ outage.
Solution: EC2 Auto Scaling Group across 3 AZs behind an ALB, RDS Multi-AZ with automated failover, CloudFront with WAF, SSM Session Manager replacing bastion hosts. RTO under 15 minutes.
Problem: Synchronous order processing blocks on database writes under load, causing timeouts and duplicate orders during traffic spikes.
Solution: API Gateway to Lambda validator, SQS FIFO queue with two-layer idempotency (dedup window and DynamoDB conditional write), processor Lambda with DLQ alerting. ~$2.32/month at 1M requests.
Demonstrated through projects, certification, and professional practice
Translating business requirements into AWS architectures with documented trade-off analysis, service selection rationale, and ADRs
Defense-in-depth: IAM least-privilege roles, SCPs, WAF rules, KMS encryption, IMDSv2, SSM Session Manager, Secrets Manager
Multi-AZ and multi-region designs with defined RTO/RPO targets, automated failover, and health-check-based routing
Modular Terraform with remote state, OIDC-based GitHub Actions CI/CD, and GitOps workflows for all 7 projects
AWS Organizations with SCPs, delegated GuardDuty, centralized CloudTrail, account vending, and IAM Identity Center
Five years managing complex, high-stakes client cases: structured discovery, stakeholder communication, and translating technical findings into clear recommendations
Jenella holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Western Governors University and five years of professional experience in high-volume, client-facing roles that required structured requirements gathering, stakeholder communication, and time-sensitive case resolution. She earned the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate credential in September 2025 and has built seven production-grade AWS projects covering multi-account governance, serverless pipelines, containerized microservices, and high-availability platforms, all provisioned with Terraform and documented with architecture decision records. She is currently completing the Per Scholas Cloud Engineering Program in Seattle. Her background in claims management and customer operations maps directly to the discovery, scoping, and communication work that solutions architecture and engineering require.
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In ProgressTargeting Solutions Architect, Solutions Engineer, and Cloud Engineer roles. Remote or Seattle area.
