Hi, I'm Maqsood

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A Cloud AI/ML engineer uncovering the architecture of thought and advancing the frontier of intelligence by designing scalable systems that carry us toward what comes next.

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About Me

I am a Senior Cloud Engineer and AI/ML Developer with over 4 years of experience designing and deploying cloud-native solutions. My expertise lies in building scalable, event-driven architectures on AWS and integrating cutting-edge AI/ML technologies.

Currently pursuing my Masters in Computer Science (AI/ML) at the University at Buffalo, I combine academic rigor with practical industry experience. I have a proven track record of reducing costs, improving system reliability, and delivering innovative AI solutions like generative AI assistants and anomaly detection systems.

Education

Masters in Computer Science (AI/ML)

University at Buffalo - New York

Aug 2025 – Present

Key Achievement

Shooting Star Award (2024)

LTIMindtree

For key contributions in Cloud Engineering

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

PythonJavaJavaScriptSQLBash/Shell

Cloud Computing (AWS)

EC2RDSS3LambdaAPI GatewayGlueStep FunctionsSNSSQSIAMVPCCloudWatchEventBridgeCloudFormation

AI & Machine Learning

PyTorchHugging FaceLangChainPineconeSageMakerBedrockKendraOpenSearchOptunaNumPyPandas

DevOps & Infrastructure

DockerKubernetesTerraformJenkinsCI/CDGit

Databases

SnowflakeDynamoDBMySQLPostgreSQLData Lakes

Certifications

Oracle Generative AI Professional
AWS Solutions Architect
AWS Developer Associate
Deep Learning (IIT Madras)
Oracle AI Fundamentals Associate

Featured Projects

Red Flag — AI-powered Chrome Extension

Red Flag — AI-powered Chrome Extension

Developed a Chrome extension integrating LLM inference APIs and web scraping modules to audit and highlight risky Privacy Policies and Terms & Conditions in real time.

Chrome ExtensionLLMWeb ScrapingPrivacy
Portfolio Website

Portfolio Website

A 3D interactive portfolio website built with Next.js, Three.js, and Tailwind CSS to showcase my skills and experience.

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Professional Experience

Senior Cloud Engineer

LTIMindtree | Portland General Electric
Jan 2021 – June 2025Hyderabad, India
  • Designed and deployed cloud-native solutions across multiple enterprise projects, replacing legacy systems with scalable, event-driven architectures on AWS, achieving 30% cost reduction and 99.9% uptime.
  • Built more than 100 high-performance APIs and serverless ETL pipelines, improving outage detection and customer alerting speed by ∼40% for over 500K+ customers.
  • Implemented anomaly detection and real-time alerting in the energy trading platform, reducing trading risks by 25% through early detection of pricing anomalies.
  • Collaborated with data science teams to automate hydro and budget forecasting models, reducing report generation time from 3 hours to 20 minutes.
  • Developed and deployed smart meter–based proactive outage alert system using AWS and Twilio, handling ∼2M daily events and reducing storm-time calls by 35%.
  • Architected real-time Socket APIs and integrated Amazon Kendra with AWS Bedrock (Claude); delivered a Generative AI assistant for natural language enterprise search.
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) across all environments, reducing deployment time by 60%.

Cloud Intern

Grepthor Software Solutions
March 2019 – Oct 2019Hyderabad, India
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to execute cloud migration initiatives on AWS, enhancing scalability and application performance.
  • Implemented and maintained AWS CloudWatch alarms and dashboards tracking 15+ key metrics, reducing incident response time by 30%.
  • Engineered event-driven and serverless architectures leveraging AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, and Amazon SNS.

Publications & Awards

Publications

An Approach to Translate Human Gestures into Telugu

International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research (IJSTR)2022

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Question Answering System using Deep Learning

Journal of Xidian University2021

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Awards

Shooting Star Award

LTIMindtree • 2024

Recipient of the Shooting Star Award for key contributions in the Cloud Engineering Pillar at LTIMindtree.

Get In Touch

Have a project in mind or want to discuss cloud solutions? Send me a message!