product · ios
WordDrop
A minimalist, privacy-first vocabulary puzzle on the App Store. Calm where the day job is complex, and proof the same hands ship polished consumer products.
App Store privacy-first zero data collected
available · vancouver, bc
Cloud solutions architect at Microsoft and AWS, founder at latchkey, and the technical-sales side of every deal. 20+ engagements across Canadian government and enterprise.
kaveh@vancouver: ~ live
$ whoami
Kaveh Alemi · cloud architect, founder & technical seller
$ kaveh --pitch
> I make secure cloud simple to run, then help people buy it.
uptime 99.98% p50 42ms req/min 240 region yvr build a3f9c1e session 00:00
$5M+
revenue delivered
10/10
avg client satisfaction
20+
client engagements
25
cloud certifications
worked & trained across
Microsoft
Amazon Web Services
latchkey
CIBC
RBC Capital Markets
Georgia Tech
Simon Fraser University
UBC
Powerex
01 — about
Architect, advisor, builder
I build secure cloud infrastructure for a living: landing zones, compliance platforms, Kubernetes. At Microsoft today, and at AWS before that, mostly for Canadian government and enterprise.
But I spend as much time with customers as with code. I scope engagements, advise the executives signing off on them, and turn dense architecture into something a buyer actually understands and wants. That's the technical-sales side of the same job, and it's where I do my best work.
I also build products: latchkey, an AI-powered CI/CD platform, and WordDrop, a minimalist vocabulary game on the App Store. The throughline is taking something complex and making it feel effortless to use, and to buy.
Currently finishing an MSCS at Georgia Tech.
- location
- Vancouver, BC
- now
- Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft
- focus
- solutions architecture · technical pre-sales
- building
- latchkey.dev · WordDrop
- studying
- MSCS @ Georgia Tech (4.0)
- certs
- 11x AWS · 4x Azure
02 — experience
Where I've shipped
Microsoft · Cloud Solution Architect
Vancouver, BC · Remote
Jan 2026 to Present
- Built Project Pronghorn Blue for the Government of Alberta, prompt-build apps that deploy into a PBMM-aligned Azure landing zone for regulated workloads.
- Cloud advisor to lululemon, partnering across their teams on Azure architecture, migrations, security, governance, and the day-to-day of running cloud at scale.
- Architect secure, scalable Azure (Terraform / Bicep, AKS) for enterprise and public-sector clients, turning complex requirements into systems their teams can actually run.
latchkey.dev · Co-Founder & COO
Vancouver, BC
Aug 2025 to Present
- Co-founded an AI-powered DevOps platform that optimizes GitHub Actions for cost, security, and pipeline performance, scaled to $5K MRR.
- Led customer acquisition end-to-end, turning early users into paying customers, and owned the public landing page and onboarding flow.
- Secured $25K pre-seed from LAUNCH at a $1M valuation.
Amazon Web Services · Delivery Consultant (Cloud Architect)
Vancouver, BC · Remote
Jan 2023 to Jan 2026
- Led cloud migrations for 10+ Canadian federal and provincial government organizations, designing secure, compliant architectures with IaC (CDK, CloudFormation, SAM).
- Held a 95% average CSAT across dozens of advisory and implementation engagements, delivering high-impact technical workshops alongside hands-on solutions.
- AWS Security & Containers SME: landing zones (LZA / PBMM, CCCS), GuardDuty / Security Hub / WAF, and EKS / ECS in highly regulated environments.
- Built reusable delivery kits (compliance dashboards, dashboard-migration tooling) adopted across multiple engagements, saving 500+ hours. 11x AWS certified, 3x AWSome Award.
earlier · internships
Amazon Web Services
May 2022 to Aug 2022Professional Services Intern
Deployed and customized AWS Service Workbench with CloudFormation, integrating EMR and SageMaker Notebooks for a Kaggle competition.
CIBC
Sep 2021 to Dec 2021Software Developer Intern
Built a full-stack React/Django app aggregating fraud data from multiple APIs, serving thousands of CIBC risk analysts.
RBC Capital Markets
May 2021 to Aug 2021Data Scientist Intern
Built a Kubernetes resource-optimization engine projected to save $2.5M in infrastructure costs, the work behind my patent.
Simon Fraser University
May 2021 to Aug 2021Research Assistant, Ester Lab
Built a deep-learning model to predict chemotherapy side effects, optimizing for bias resilience and interpretability, later carried to publication.
Powerex
Sep 2019 to Apr 2020IT Analyst Intern
Built ETL pipelines for real-time processing of terabytes of infrastructure data, integrated with Datadog for visualization.
03 — projects
What I've built
founder · ai-powered ci/cd
latchkey.dev
Self-healing GitHub Actions: an agentic AI backend that surfaces cloud cost, security, and pipeline-performance insights, then fixes them.
$5K MRR
$25K pre-seed
$1M valuation
microsoft · public sector
Project Pronghorn Blue
Prompt-build applications that deploy straight into a PBMM-aligned Azure landing zone, regulated-workload guardrails, without the wait.
Azure PBMM landing zone IaC · AKS
aws · security
SecureSight
A centralized security data lake, the biggest system I have built. Amazon Security Lake and Control Tower with ETL pipelines that ingest CloudTrail, VPC, Route 53, and Security Hub logs, then surface the whole estate in QuickSight for proactive threat detection.
Security Lake Athena · ETL QuickSight
aws · compliance
LZA Guardrails Dashboard
Real-time compliance monitoring for PBMM landing zones. A SQL ETL pipeline in Athena ingests AWS Audit Manager and Config data and flags non-compliant CCCS guardrails in QuickSight for fast remediation.
LZA · PBMM Athena · SQL QuickSight
aws · data
Data lakes & BI
Secure, scalable S3 data lakes with Lambda ETL and advanced QuickSight dashboards (NLP-powered search, geospatial mapping) for public-sector analytics, built with AWS CDK to the Well-Architected Framework.
S3 data lake CDK · Lambda QuickSight
aws · tooling
DashboardMigrator
A reusable delivery kit that automates replicating QuickSight dashboards across AWS accounts with CloudFormation, replacing an error-prone manual process and saving hours across engagements.
CloudFormation QuickSight reusable kit
aws · migration
Geospatial platform on AWS
A cloud-native migration of a mission-critical ArcGIS Enterprise geospatial platform via AWS CDK (EC2, ASG, RDS, S3, VPC), improving scalability and cutting operational cost.
CDK EC2 · RDS geospatial
aws · migration
Serverless migrations
Re-platformed legacy systems onto AWS-native serverless: API Gateway, Lambda, WAF, and SAM, with modular CDK and OpenAPI-defined contracts replacing brittle on-prem stacks.
Lambda · API GW WAF CDK · SAM
04 — skills
The toolbox
Languages & Scripting
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Python
- Bash
- PowerShell
- SQL
Azure
- Azure Landing Zones
- Bicep
- ARM Templates
- AKS
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Azure Policy
- Defender for Cloud
- Sentinel
- Azure Monitor
- Azure DevOps
- Key Vault
- Azure Arc
AWS
- EC2
- Lambda
- ECS
- EKS
- Fargate
- Batch
- S3
- RDS
- Aurora
- DynamoDB
- DMS
- API Gateway
- SQS
- CDK
- CloudFormation
- SAM
- Athena
- Glue
- GuardDuty
- Security Hub
- WAF
- Control Tower / LZA
Platform & DevOps
- Terraform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- OpenTelemetry
- Datadog
- CloudWatch
Security & Compliance
- PBMM
- CCCS
- HIPAA
- Governance & guardrails
- IaC security
- Zero-trust networking
- KMS
Data, ML & Analytics
- S3 Data Lakes
- QuickSight
- Pandas
- NumPy
- Deep learning
- Model interpretability
- ETL pipelines
05 — certifications
Certified, repeatedly
25 credentials and counting: 11x AWS Certified (incl. two Professional and two Specialty) and 4x Azure. The short version: I keep proving the depth on paper.
Amazon Web Services
Solutions Architect (Professional)
DevOps Engineer (Professional)
Security (Specialty)
Machine Learning (Specialty)
Data Engineer (Associate) Machine Learning Engineer (Associate) SysOps Administrator (Associate) Developer (Associate) Solutions Architect (Associate) AI Practitioner Cloud Practitioner Generative AI Foundational (L100) Knowledge: Amazon EKS Tech U Graduate Partner: Generative AI Essentials (Business) Partner: Cloud Economics Accreditation Partner: Accreditation (Technical) Partner: Sales Accreditation (Business)
Microsoft
Azure Fundamentals
Azure AI Fundamentals
Azure Data Fundamentals
Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
UBC Extended Learning
Micro-certificate: AI Cloud Solutions Strategy AI Cloud Technology Implementation Fundamentals of AI Cloud Strategy
06 — education
Where I studied
Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. Computer Science
Computer Systems specialization
GPA 4.0 / 4.0 Jan 2024 to 2027 (expected)
Simon Fraser University
B.Sc. Data Science
Computer Science & Statistics concentration
GPA 3.6 / 4.0 Graduated
07 — research & ip
Work that outlived the project
peer-reviewed paper
Machine learning identifies genetic predictors of cisplatin-induced ototoxicity
Arab, A., et al. (2024) · Computers in Biology and Medicine, 183, 109324
Started as an undergraduate research project in the Ester Lab at SFU: a deep-learning model to predict who would suffer hearing loss from cisplatin chemotherapy, built to stay interpretable and resilient to bias. The results were strong enough that the lab's PhD students carried it forward, and it was published in a peer-reviewed journal.
↗ read on ScienceDirect
us patent application
Kubernetes resource-optimization engine
Alemi, K. (2023) · US 2023/0061641 A1 · Appl. 17/893,864
During my Data Scientist internship at RBC Capital Markets I built an engine that learns how containerized workloads actually consume CPU and memory, then right-sizes Kubernetes resource requests automatically, projected to save $2.5M in infrastructure cost. The approach was novel enough that RBC filed it as a US patent application, with me named as inventor.
↗ view on USPTO Patent Center 08 — off the clock
A person, not a resume
When I'm not in a terminal, I'm almost certainly with a cat. I'm a shameless cat person, the kind who will crouch in a field to make a new friend and negotiate trust one slow blink at a time.
My own cat is a small black menace who supervises every late-night deploy from the corner of the desk. Turns out the best debugging partner is one who has zero opinions about your stack trace and full opinions about dinner.
I'm also a mechanical keyboard hobbyist, lubing switches, hunting the perfect tactile bump, and chasing that thock. Same instinct as the rest of my work, honestly: take something most people never think about and obsess over making it feel exactly right.
$ uptime · powered by espresso, a purring code reviewer, and a very loud keyboard
