🛡️ Mahesh Shukla — Cloud Security & Automation Architect

Hi! I’m Mahesh Shukla, a Cloud Security Specialist & AWS IAM Automation Expert focused on making enterprise-grade security accessible to SMBs.

• ☁ AWS Security → IAM, VPC, S3, CloudTrail, KMS, EC2
• ⚙ Infrastructure as Code → Terraform, CloudFormation
• 🐍 Python Automation → boto3, AWS CLI, security tooling

“Secure by Design, Automated by Default.”

🛡 AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate

In Progress

AWS VPC Bastion + Private EC2

Hands-on project demonstrating secure VPC design with Bastion Host, private EC2, subnet isolation, and SSH access flow.

IAM X-Ray: AWS IAM Visualizer

An open-source Python tool for visualizing, analyzing, and securing AWS IAM configurations with Streamlit.

AWS EC2 Auto Scaling + ALB + CloudWatch

Scalable, load-balanced infrastructure using EC2, ALB, ASG, and CloudWatch monitoring for high availability.

AWS DevSecOps Infrastructure Automation

Designed and automated a secure 3-tier AWS infrastructure using Terraform & CloudFormation. Built CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, implemented IAM least-privilege policies, CloudWatch monitoring, and achieved ~30% cost optimization while reducing provisioning time by 90%.