About

Hey, I'm Vishnu.

I'm a Cloud & AI Engineer who builds, breaks, writes, and speaks — all about AWS. My day-to-day is architecting production workloads and shipping with Gen AI, Bedrock, and Agentic AI frameworks.

At SUDO Consultants I work across security, FinOps, and modernization — and I hold 14 AWS certifications (every Professional & Specialty exam), plus Terraform, Vault, Fortinet, and Oracle Cloud. Multi-cloud, security-first.

Beyond the console, I'm an active AWS Community Builder (Security), I publish deep technical write-ups, and I speak at AWS Community Days across India and on international stages. I also lead Golden Jackets India as Chapter Lead — a community of Indian engineers who've earned every active AWS certification.

AWS Security Generative AI Amazon Bedrock Agentic AI Amazon Q Terraform / IaC DevOps FinOps Cloud Architecture
Build
Production AWS workloads, Gen AI & agentic systems.
14x AWS Certified
Write
Deep technical posts on AWS, security & DevOps.
50+ articles
Speak
Community Days & international conference stages.
10+ talks
Lead
Golden Jackets India — all-cert AWS community.
Chapter Lead
Credentials

Certifications

21 professional certifications across AWS, HashiCorp, Fortinet & Oracle Cloud

AWS — 14 Certifications

☁️
SA Professional
Pro
⚙️
DevOps Engineer Pro
Pro
🏗️
SA Associate
Associate
💻
Developer Associate
Associate
🛠️
SysOps Admin
Associate
🔐
Security Specialty
Specialty
🌐
Advanced Networking
Specialty
🗄️
Gen AI Professional
Specialty
📊
CloudOps Engineer
Specialty
🤖
ML Specialty
Specialty
📦
Data Engineer
Associate
🧠
ML Associate
Associate
🤖
AI Practitioner
Foundational
☁️
Cloud Practitioner
Foundational

HashiCorp

🔷
Terraform Associate
🔑
Vault Associate

Fortinet

🛡️
NSE 1
🛡️
NSE 2

Anthropic Claude

🛡️
Claude Certified Associate – Foundations

Oracle Cloud

🔶
OCI Foundations
🔶
OCI AI Foundations
🔶
OCI Agentic AI Foundations
View all on Credly →
Speaking & Community

On Stage

Oct 2025
AWS Community Day UAE 2025
Revolutionizing Enterprise Productivity with Family of Qs
Dubai, UAE
Oct 2025
GITEX GLOBAL 2025
Q for the Future — Enterprise Productivity with Family of Qs
Dubai, UAE
Dec 2025
AWS Community Day Kochi (AI/ML)
Amazon QuickSuite & Agentic AI
Kochi, India
Dec 2025
AWS Student Community Day MLRIT 2025
Develop & Deploy using Kiro & App Runner
Hyderabad, India
Feb 2026
AWS User Group Hyderabad
Agentic AI on AWS — from SDK to Runtime
Hyderabad, India
Mar 2026
AWS User Group Punjab
AWS Certified AI Practitioner — Roadmap Session
Online
Apr 2026
AWSCC Techno India University — Cloud Quest
Navigating the AWS Ecosystem — Core Services, Global Infrastructure & Management Console
Online
23 Apr 2026
AWS Summit Bengaluru 2026 — Developer Community Theatre
Keeping Serverless Modern: Upgrading AWS Lambda Runtimes with AWS Transform
Bengaluru, India
23 May 2026
AWS User Group Mysore - May community session
RoadMap to AWS Certifications from Associate to Golden Jacket
Online
19 June 2026
AWS Global Community Gathering - #20
AWS Transform and AWS Security Agent
Online
27 June 2026
AWS Student Builder Groups at REC
Introduction to Cloud Computing & AI: Fundamentals of the Modern Tech Era
Online
11th and 12th July 2026
AWS Student Builder Groups MAIT - Delhi
Introduction to Gen AI on AWS & Amazon PartyRock—AWS's no-code platform for building Generative AI application
Online
1st August 2026
AWS Student Community Day - Nagpur 2026
I Let AWS AI Modernize & Pen-Test A Legacy App – Here's What Actually Happened
InFED, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur , India
VishTalks

Watch & Listen

▶ YouTube
Introduction to Cloud Computing & AI | Foundations of the Modern Tech Era
June 2026 · Online · AWS Student Builder Group at REC
▶ YouTube
Roadmap to AWS Certifications From Associate to Golden Jacket
May 2026 · Online
▶ YouTube
AWS Certified AI Practitioner — Roadmap Session
Mar 2026 · Punjab
▶ YouTube
Transforming Enterprise Productivity with Amazon QuickSuite & AWS Transform
Dec 2025 · AWS Community Day Kochi
▶ YouTube
The 0.1% Cloud Masterclass
Jan 2026 · Hyderabad
▶ YouTube · @CloudAndTFbyVishnu
Securing Your Code with AWS Inspector — Code Security Scanning
Jan 2026 · Online
▶ YouTube · @CloudAndTFbyVishnu
AWS App Runner — The Easiest Way to Deploy Containers to the Cloud
Tutorial · DevOps · @CloudAndTFbyVishnu
♫ Spotify
Learn2Upskill Podcast — AWS Cert Journey
Jun 2025 · Spotify · Learn2Upskill
Writing

From the Blog

AWSResilience HubKiro PowersMCP
I Built a Kiro Power for AWS Resilience Hub
August 2026 · vishnurachapudi.com
AWSAWS TransformAIMigration
Another Day, Another Post on AWS Transform
August 2026 · AWS Builder Center
AWSEC2TroubleshootingAI
I Asked the Console Why My Instance Wouldn't Connect — And It Went and Checked
August 2026 · AWS Builder Center
AWSPricing CalculatorEC2FinOps
The Pricing Calculator Feature I Wish I'd Found Three Years Ago: Bulk Import
August 2026 · 7 min read
AWSAWS TransformKiroKiro Power
AWS Transform via Kiro Power: A Hands-On Walkthrough
August 2026 · 10 min read
AWSCost ExplorerSESFinOps
Three Ways to Deliver AWS Cost Reports to a Customer (and How I Actually Choose Between Them)
August 2026 · 7 min read
AWSSecrets ManagerGitLabDevOps
AWS Secrets Manager Now Rotates Your GitLab Tokens for You — No Lambda Required
July 2026 · 5 min read
AWSCB5TimesSpotlight
AWS CB Spotlight 5 Timers Club-Venkata Pavan Vishnu Rachapudi
July 2026 · 6 min read
AWSTransfer FamilyS3 Access GrantsIAM Identity Center
Easy File Sharing with AWS Transfer Family Web Apps
July 2026 · 6 min read
AWSLambda MicroVMsBedrockSecurity
AI Code Review Sandbox — installing untrusted packages in throwaway Firecracker VMs
June 2026 · 10 min read
AWSQuickAgentic AIMCP
Amazon Quick Desktop — I set it up and explored every feature. Here's everything
June 2026 · 14 min read
AWSFinOpsAgentic AIPreview
AWS FinOps Agent is in preview. I ran it on my real account..
June 2026 · 14 min read
AWSTransformJavaAgentic AI
I let AWS Transform analyse a legacy Java codebase. Here's what it found.
June 2026 · 12 min read
AWSCompute OptimizerEC2FinOps
AWS Compute Optimizer — Stop Guessing, Start Rightsizing.
June 2026 · 12 min read
AWSAgentCoreBedrockAgentic AI
Deploy an AI Agent in Minutes with AgentCore Managed Harness.
May 2026 · 15 min read
AWSSystems ManagerWindows ServerEC2
A real-world in-place upgrade pattern using AWSEC2-CloneInstanceAndUpgradeWindows, ENI reuse, and a few hard-earned lessons.
Apr 2026 · 15 min read
AWSKubernetesVeleroDisaster Recovery
Setting up multi-region active–passive DR for EKS using Velero, S3 Cross-Region Replication, Helm, and IRSA — with every command, every error, and every fix documented.
Apr 2026 · 15 min read
AWSEBSColdsnapDisaster Recovery
21 snapshots, ~5 TB of data, a degraded region, and every conventional recovery path failing one by one. Here's the tool that finally worked — and exactly how we used it.
Apr 2026 · 10 min read
AWSAgentic AINova
Here's exactly how I built it, what broke, and what Nova Act can actually do beyond a simple smoke test.
Apr 2026 · 7 min read
AWSStorageCompute
How Amazon S3 Files Turns Your Bucket Into a Drive
Apr 2026 · 7 min read
AWSSecurityAgentic AI
I Pentested My Modernized Java App with AWS Security Agent — Here's What It Found
Mar 2026 · 14 min read
AWSNetworkingVPC
Stop Guessing. Start Tracing. — How AWS Reachability Analyzer Found Our Broken Network
10 VPCs, 1 Transit Gateway, and a jump server that couldn't reach anything. A complete walkthrough for $0.10.
Mar 2026 · 8 min read
AWSTransformAgentic AI
I Modernized a Legacy Java App with AWS Transform — Here's What Happened
Mar 2026 · 12 min read
AWSDevOpsAIOps
I Tested AWS DevOps Agent — Here's What Happened When I Broke My EC2 Instance
A deliberate CPU stress test on a t2.medium, watching Amazon's frontier AI agent investigate in real time.
Mar 2026 · 8 min read
Gen AIAgentsBedrock
Building an AWS Daily Helper with Strands Agents & Bedrock AgentCore
Dev.to · AWS Builders
TerraformDevOpsSecurity
Secure, Lint and Validate Your Terraform Like a Pro
Hashnode · TechnoDiary
All posts on Dev.to → AWS Builder posts → Hashnode →
Recognition

Awards & Milestones

2026
Top Performer - Managed Services (Annual Award)
SUDO Consultants
2026
AWS Community Builders Spotlight – 5 Timers Club
AWS Community Builders Manager
2026
Golden Jacket Chapter Lead
Golden Jackets India · goldenjackets.in
2025
Top Performer of the Month — SUDO Consultants
December 2025
2025
Top Performer of the Month — SUDO Consultants
October 2025
2025
Trundl Hackathon Winner
IaC for automated Atlassian deployment
2025
Champion Team — Trundl
Nutanix infra & DR strategy
2024
Runner-up, AWS Amplify Hackathon
AWS User Group India
2024
Star Performer — Trundl
AWS Q Business POC
2022
Rising Star — MassMutual
Annual award, MassMutual India
Journey

My Journey

Apr 2026
AWS Summit Bengaluru 2026
Spoke at Developer Community Theatre on keeping Serverless modern with AWS Transform.
Mar 2026
14x AWS · Cloud & AI @ SUDO
Building, writing, speaking, mentoring. The journey continues.
Dec 2025
Kochi + MLRIT
Spoke at Kochi AI/ML. Workshop at MLRIT.
Oct 2025
GITEX Global + AWS Community Day UAE
First international talks. Enterprise Productivity with Family of Qs.
Aug 2025
Joined SUDO Consultants
Cloud & AI role. New chapter begins.
Dec 2024–Feb 2025
7 Certs in 3 Months
AI Practitioner → SysOps → DevOps Pro → Data Engineer → ML Associate → ML Specialty → Advanced Networking.
Jul 2024
Dev.to + Trundl + SAP-C02
AWS Community Builders writer. Trundl Hackathon winner. SA Professional passed.
May 2024
Cloud Engineer at Trundl
Stepped into a cloud engineering role, hands-on with infrastructure & delivery.
Mar 2023
First Blog Post
Kafka deep-dive on Hashnode. TechnoDiary begins.
Oct 2022
AWS Cloud Practitioner
First AWS cert. The spark.
Aug 2021
Analyst, Technology at MassMutual
Where it all began. First step into the tech industry.
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