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Modernizing Investment Management Infrastructure on AWS
Cloud infrastructure for investment management workloads
Led the modernization of investment management workloads from legacy infrastructure to AWS, using cloud-native services and infrastructure automation to improve deployment efficiency and reduce operating costs.
Context
Architected and executed migration of Morningstar investment management workloads from on-premises to AWS — ECS, RDS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, Terraform automation, and phased cutover with a squad of 3–5 engineers.
My role
Lead Software Engineer — architecture and migration lead.
What I built
Migrated .NET Core services to ECS/RDS, designed event-driven architectures, automated provisioning with Terraform, and led production cutover with data validation and rollback planning.
What it shows
Cost-aware cloud architecture at platform scope — $1M annual savings with measurable deployment improvements, not lift-and-shift for its own sake.
Approach
- Phased bounded-context migration to ECS
- Event-driven decoupling with SQS/SNS
- Terraform-managed infrastructure across environments
- CloudWatch and X-Ray observability