Samyak Kumar · Seattle, WA

Software engineer
building cloud infrastructure at scale.

SDE II on the AWS CloudFormation StackSets team. Currently focused on Infrastructure as Code — designing systems that help customers manage their cloud environments across thousands of accounts.

I.

Experience

Amazon Web Services

Software Development Engineer II · promoted from SDE I in 2024
CloudFormation StackSets · Infrastructure as Code
  • Lead design for complex features enabling customers to bridge security compliance gaps and expand customization — spanning task state management, cross-service communication, security changes, and a public API.
  • Lead expansion of the service to new AWS regions across commercial and ADC partitions; serve as subject matter expert for region builds within the team.
  • Ran comprehensive load tests to scale the service from a 15,000 to 50,000 account limit, eliminating stuck operations and recurring service alarms.
  • Own the full project lifecycle — design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment — across all AWS regions.
  • Reduced on-call load by ~25–30% by designing a new locking mechanism in a serverless service to resolve a race condition.

NCR Corporation

Software Engineer Intern
Atlanta, GA
  • Built a microservice integrating internal services with Google Business APIs using Loopback, OpenAPI specs, GCP SQL/Scheduler, and an Angular frontend.
  • Connected the microservice to an existing .NET codebase — frontend in JavaScript (ExtJS), backend in C#.
  • Documented APIs with Swagger and managed deployment with Kubernetes and Argo CI/CD.

Openwater VC

Software Engineer Intern
Atlanta, GA
  • Developed a React Native application for the startup Saymile.
  • Built a Node.js/Express backend with Firebase supporting messaging, group ordering, order tracking, and phone number authentication.
II.

Education

2018 — 2022

BS, Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, GA
Cumulative GPA 3.55 / 4.0 · Major GPA 3.68 / 4.0
Computer Vision · Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Data Structures · Algorithms · Databases
III.

Research

Stadium IOPT

Teaching Assistant · Georgia Tech
  • Managed a team of frontend and backend developers building a Swift iOS application with minigames to increase mid-game fan interaction and safety at Bobby Dodd Stadium.

Independent Research

Undergraduate Researcher · Georgia Tech
  • Created a demo for the paper "Feel The Music: Automatically Generating A Dance For An Input Song" with Professor Devi Parikh — using MFCC audio features and Markov states with beam search to generate dance videos from songs.
IV.

Colophon

Deployed on AWS

Static site · Infrastructure as Code
A small homage to the day job.

The whole stack is declared in a single CloudFormation template; content updates ship via a shell script that syncs S3 and invalidates the CloudFront cache. Tap a component below to see what it does.

AWS Account · us-east-1 Visitor ROUTE 53 DNS · A-records ACM TLS certificate CLOUDFRONT CDN · HTTPS · OAC S3 (PRIVATE) index.html CLOUDFORMATION manages →
Request flow: DNS resolves via Route 53 → CloudFront serves over HTTPS with the ACM cert → origin fetched from a private S3 bucket via OAC.
Tap a component above for details.

Typeset in Fraunces & Inter. Built by hand, deployed by template.