Prateek Prakash
Senior IoT (Cloud & Security) Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPrateek Prakash is a Senior IoT (Cloud & Security) Architect based in London with eight years of focused experience at AWS and a 15+ year background in information security, cloud compliance and IT governance across Big Four and enterprise consultancies. He blends hands-on engineering—authoring and testing AWS Config rules for CloudFront logging—with strategic advisory skills gained at AWS, Grant Thornton, Deloitte and KPMG to design secure, auditable IoT and cloud architectures. Known for translating regulatory requirements into enforceable technical controls, he bridges cloud-native development, security automation and compliance frameworks. His MBA in Systems & General Management complements a technical BE in Electronics & Telecommunications, enabling him to lead cross-functional programs from architecture through operationalization. Notably, his open-source contribution to awslabs/aws-config-rules demonstrates a practical commitment to improving cloud security posture through reusable compliance tooling.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BBPSB.E., Electronics & Telecommunications, B.E., Electronics & Telecommunications at Medi-Caps Institute of Technology and ManagementMBA, Systems and General Management, MBA, Systems and General Management at International Management Institute - IMI
Github Skills (7)
amazon-cloudfront10
aws10
python10
aws-config10
security10
testing9
serverless8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-config-rules
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
[Node, Python, Java] Repository of sample Custom Rules for AWS Config.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 9 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Prateek primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of a security compliance rule for AWS Config, specifically focusing on CloudFront logging configurations. Their work included writing Python code, defining rule parameters, and creating test cases. The commits demonstrate a focus on validating whether CloudFront distributions log to an authorized S3 bucket, enhancing security posture. The user updated and refined the rule logic, ensuring accurate compliance assessments.
pythoncustom-rulesaws-configconfigrules
aws-samples/aws-iot-security-baseline
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 2 months
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