Nikhil Reddy
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Herndon, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Reddy is a Software Development Engineer at AWS with five years of focused experience in cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. He transitioned from solution architecture and technology management roles into hands-on engineering, contributing to AWS open-source solutions like the widely used Instance Scheduler by modernizing CloudFormation/CDK patterns and streamlining build and Python dependency workflows. Comfortable across Java and Python ecosystems, he brings practical expertise in infrastructure-as-code, cross-account/cross-region automation, and production-grade refactors. Based in Herndon, VA, Nikhil's background from civil engineering to large-scale cloud systems underscores a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach and a talent for simplifying complex operational dependencies.
5 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam
Github Skills (6)
infrastructure-as-code10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
aws-cdk10
python10
cicd8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aws-solutions/instance-scheduler-on-aws
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
A cross-account and cross-region solution that allows customers to automatically start and stop EC2 and RDS Instances
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 152 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily focused on updating the AWS Instance Scheduler solution, specifically addressing CloudFormation parameters and dependencies. They removed redundant parameters and refactored code to use the latest CDK version. The contributions involved modifying the build process and python dependencies for the scheduler-cli. This work demonstrates expertise in infrastructure-as-code and cloud solution development.
instancesecsec2rdscustomers
gockle/aws-solutions-constructs
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
The AWS Solutions Constructs Library is an open-source extension of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that provides multi-service, well-architected patterns for quickly defining solutions
Contributions:5 pushes in 27 days
development-kitaws-cloudwell-architectedaws-sdkcloud-development
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