Amaan Ul Haq
Siddiqui
Building infrastructure at scale across AWS, OCI, and Azure. Designing observability stacks, hardening platform security, and shipping open source tooling that fills real gaps.
At SUDO Consultants, AWS Premier Implementation Partner and MSP. Multi-cloud infrastructure, enterprise observability stacks, large-scale migrations, and platform security across AWS and OCI.
- Certifications
- Claude Certified Architect – FoundationsJul 2026 – Jul 2027AWS Certified Security – SpecialtyMay 2026 – May 2029GCP Professional Cloud ArchitectJan 2026 – Jan 2028AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – ProfessionalAug 2025 – Aug 2028AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateJun 2025 – Jun 2028AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerApr 2025 – Aug 2028View on Credly →
- Community
- Founding organizer, Cloud Native Karachi, CNCF Community GroupJul 2026 – presentChapter details →
- Stack
- AWS · OCI · Azure · Cloudflare · Kubernetes · Terraform · Go · Python
Desirable Difficulties
Desirable difficulties is a cognitive psychology idea: making learning harder on purpose slows you down now and makes it stick later. This is the loop I run on to keep growing as a platform engineer, and the one I'm running now to get my head around AI/ML.
I Stopped Clicking Through the AWS Pricing Calculator. Now I Just Describe the Architecture.
The AWS Pricing Calculator MCP lets Claude build a real estimate from a sentence and hand back a shareable calculator.aws URL. No credentials, no clicking. For presales engineers this is the difference between a same-day quote and 'let me get back to you next week.'
I Got Tired of Passing --profile on Every OCI CLI Command
ocswitch is a small shell script that manages multiple OCI profiles and persists the active one across all terminal sessions. No more --profile flags, no more editing config files.