Vinod Shukla
Principal Solutions Architect, Global Financial Services at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVinod Shukla is a Principal Solutions Architect focused on Global Financial Services at AWS, bringing over a decade of hands-on cloud architecture and partner-facing experience. He has progressed through technical and partner solution roles at AWS since 2016, helping financial institutions adopt secure, scalable cloud-native patterns. With an MS in Computer Engineering and a background in software engineering at Atypon, he blends deep systems and development expertise with enterprise architecture and go-to-market insight. Vinod contributes to open-source cloud tooling—notably enhancements to the popular taskcat CloudFormation testing framework—demonstrating a practical approach to CI/CD and infrastructure testing. Based in New York, he excels at translating complex regulatory and operational requirements into auditable, production-ready AWS architectures. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance speed, governance, and long-term resilience.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at Iowa State UniversityB.Tech, Electrical Engineering, B.Tech, Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
Github Skills (10)
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
python10
cicd10
bash9
test-framework9
infrastructure-as-code8
aac8
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aws-ia/taskcat
May 2018 - Sep 2020
Test all the CloudFormation things! (with TaskCat)
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer
Cloud EngineerContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Vinod primarily contributed to the `taskcat` project, a CloudFormation testing framework. Their work involved modifying the stack creation process to use change sets and implementing enhancements to the handling of CloudFormation parameters, specifically related to random string and media bucket generation. Further, they made changes to the build and deployment scripts for the project. The user also integrated tags and stack prefixes.
cloudformation-launchercfncloudformation-testing-frameworkawstaskcat
aws-quickstart/quickstart-informatica-secureatsource
Dec 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 9 months
aws-lambdaquick-startaws
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