Aliya Tulyakova
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Hey, I'm Aliya Tulyakova

Cloud-focused Engineer with 8.5 years of backend development experience, now specialising in AWS cloud technologies and infrastructure.

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Manchester, UK

About Me Aliya Tulyakova Logo Image Over the past eight years, I have worked as a backend developer specialising in Magento and PHP e-commerce platforms, supporting production systems and deployments. Through this experience, I became increasingly involved in infrastructure and cloud-related tasks, working with AWS services and cloud environments.

More recently, I built an observability stack in AWS using Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki. This gave me hands‑on experience with real monitoring and incident‑response workflows. That project turned out to be the trigger for my complete shift to cloud engineering.

I'm a Certified Cloud Practitioner and currently working toward the Solutions Architect certification. My portfolio covers hands-on AWS projects including self-healing EC2 infrastructure, automated EBS backup and recovery, and a secure VPC architecture built end-to-end with Terraform.

Certifications

AWS Cloud Practitioner Badge

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

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AWS Solutions Architect Badge

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

In Progress

Projects

Secure VPC Architecture

The project demonstrates how to create a secure AWS network. It focuses on keeping workloads separate using subnets and routing, ensures that access is limited to what’s necessary through security groups, only makes public elements available when needed, protects databases and internal services and provides clear visibility into network operations.

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Secure VPC Architecture: Terraform IaC

A full Infrastructure-as-Code rebuild of the secure VPC architecture using Terraform. Deploys a 3-tier Multi-AZ VPC with ALB, Auto Scaling, RDS MySQL, bastion host, EventBridge guardrails with Lambda alerting, and CloudWatch monitoring. Includes resilience testing with a simulated NAT Gateway failure scenario.

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EC2 self-healing

A project showing how an Auto Scaling Group responds to both instance‑level and Availability Zone‑level failures.

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Automated EBS backup recovery

A full backup lifecycle system where EBS snapshots are automatically created, replicated, and cleaned up across two AWS regions (London and São Paulo).

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