Charles Llewellyn
Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Llewellyn is a Principal Solutions Architect with over 12 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale cloud and infrastructure solutions, currently advising customers at AWS. He combines deep hands-on expertise in VMware, Linux, Windows, networking and security with a pragmatic focus on requirements-driven design and long-term customer relationships. At UKCloud and Eduserv he led cloud platform architecture and Hadoop PaaS delivery, acting as a 4th-line escalation point and shaping standards for capacity, monitoring and lifecycle management. An advocate for robust automation, he has contributed to the AWS Secure Environment Accelerator by hardening its uninstall process and improving resilience for multi-account AWS cleanup workflows. Known for clear communication and analytical problem solving, he excels at translating complex technical trade-offs into operationally sound designs. Based in Bath, UK, he pairs broad infrastructure experience with a continual drive to apply and expand his skills.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Hons Food Nutrition and Consumer Protection, Bsc Hons Food Nutrition and Consumer Protection at Bath Spa UniversityDitcham Park School
English
Github Skills (11)
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
python9
terraformer8
security8
terraform8
networking7
customizer6
custom-ui6
customisation6
customizing6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-secure-environment-accelerator
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
The AWS Secure Environment Accelerator is a tool designed to help deploy and operate secure multi-account, multi-region AWS environments on an ongoing basis. The power of the solution is the configuration file which enables the completely automated deployment of customizable architectures within AWS without changing a single line of code.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 15 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to the cleanup and enhancement of the AWS Secure Environment Accelerator's uninstall script, focusing on removing directory services and fixing issues related to the cleanup process. They implemented features to allow for a dynamic AcceleratorName and fixed related pattern matching errors. They also worked on error catching for log metrics and enhanced the overall robustness of the removal script by adding support for additional stack deletion.
configuration-fileinfrastructure-managementcustomized-architecturesbasisaws
aws-samples/amazon-s3-checksum-verification
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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