Derrick

Freelance AWS Consulting

Cloud infrastructure,
built right on AWS.

I help teams migrate, build, and run production workloads on AWS — with an eye on reliability and the monthly bill.

Work with me See past work
  • EC2 · ECS · Lambda
  • Terraform / CDK
  • Cost optimization

01 · Services

What I do

Cloud migrations

Move workloads from on-prem or other clouds to AWS with minimal downtime and a clean landing zone.

Serverless builds

Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge — event-driven systems that scale to zero and back.

Cost optimization

Audit your bill, right-size instances, fix storage waste, and set up budgets that actually alert.

Infrastructure as code

Terraform or CDK. Repeatable environments, reviewed in pull requests, deployed from CI.

02 · Selected work

Recent projects

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Legacy app → ECS Fargate

Containerized a monolith and moved it to Fargate behind an ALB. Zero-downtime cutover, infra in Terraform.

EC2 → ECS · Terraform · ALB

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Serverless data pipeline

Event-driven ingestion with Lambda, S3, and EventBridge processing thousands of files daily.

Lambda · S3 · EventBridge

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AWS bill cut ~40%

Cost audit for a growing startup: right-sizing, savings plans, and S3 lifecycle policies.

Cost Explorer · Savings Plans

03 · About

Hi, I'm Derrick.

I'm a freelance cloud engineer focused on AWS. I've spent years running production infrastructure and now help companies do the same — without the guesswork or the surprise invoices.

Remote · US

04 · Contact

Let's talk about your AWS setup

Tell me what you're working on and I'll get back to you within one business day.

Email me LinkedIn