GenAI + Serverless: My AWS Builder Workflow

My 2025 Wrapped

'As a Founder / Builder:

• -Launched CloudFluently, a free cloud learning platform
• -Grew CloudFluently to 5.5k+ users with 15k+ course enrollments
• -Accepted into Google Cloud Startup Program
• -Accepted into AWS Activate for Startups Program
• -Published 1,000+ lessons in <6 months
• -Wrote 125 in-depth technical blogs (SEO experiment)
• -Achieved 50k+ SEO impressions in ~2 months
• -Crossed 100k+ website visits from 140+ countries
• -Scaled platform to handle 1'2M API requests/month
• -Built InfraPilot (Cursor for Infra) - Beta Jan 2026

Courses & Content on CloudFluently [this is insane]:

• -AWS: 4 study notes, 7 practice exams, 2 hands-on packs (10 projects)
• -Azure: 3 study notes, 3 practice exams
• -GCP: 3 practice exams
• -HashiCorp: 1 study note, 1 practice exam
• -Misc: 2 additional technical study notes

'Social Media & Reach:

- LinkedIn: 500k+ impressions | 6k+ connections
- X: 500k+ impressions
- Instagram: 1M+ impressions
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'Research:

- Research internship at Carnegie Mellon University
- Published research paper on AI-Driven Architectures
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'University / Academia:

- Graduated June 2025 with 9+ GPA (not sure how did i even get that)
- Invited as External Examiner at AISSMS IOIT for final-year project evaluations
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'Community:

[Organizer] AWS Cloud Club PICT
- Completed tenure as an AWS Cloud Captain
- Led India's largest student-led AWS community (3.5k+ members) in ~1.5yrs
- Organized 10+ events/workshops (5'6 in 2025)
- Internship drive: ~100 interviews | 60 interns | 5 project + 5 research teams

[Organizer] Build Club Pune
- Organized Build Club Pune launch with Technogise
- Co-hosted Build Club ' HPE (Cybersecurity + AI)
- Built 500+ community members in two events

As a Speaker:
- Speaker at AWS Community Day Taiwan
- Speaker at AISSMS IOIT
- Speaker at TechXplore 2025 (SKNIEE)
- Speaker at Build Club ' HPE
- Speaker at Build Club Pune Launch
- Speaker at AWS Community Gatherings
- Multiple college club sessions (lost count over the last min sessions I gave, thanks to my bird brain)

As a Volunteer / Attendee:
- AWS User Group meetups, AWS Community Day Pune 2025
- Attended 20+ tech meetups (Cant count this again)
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'Internships / Work (not my main focus like it is for most people):

- AI/ML internship at a startup
- Cloud Content Writer internship
- Developer Advocate (Cloud)
- Research internship in AI/ML
- Now a full-time role: AI + Cloud + Backend
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'General / Fun Facts:

• -Walked ~800k'1M steps this year (still fat asf)
• -88k+ minutes of songs on Spotify (brainrot)
• -500+ hours of Valorant (I am scared to check League stats, rest games dk)
• -First international solo trip | visited 2 countries
• -Started learning Japanese (JLPT exam hopefully soon)
• -Writing a book (yeah ewww)
• -Crossed 1 Billion token usage on Cursor (check yours-> cursor.com/2025)
• -Built multiple side projects
• -Selected for AWS New Voices Program

My thought' It was decent, just want to do better. Onto 2026 :)

Gave a speaker session at 'AWS Global Community Gatherings' hosted by HIROMI ITO and Yuki Sunaoka on the topic- '𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 + 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀: 𝗠𝘆 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄' 🤖

I covered:
✔️ How GenAI and Serverless go hand-in-hand
✔️ An overview of AWS GenAI + Serverless services
✔️ My personal AWS Builder Workflow
✔️ Learnings, pitfalls & best practices

It was incredible sharing my journey and exchanging insights with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community spread across the globe

Kudos to the fellow speakers Abinaya S V, Priscila Araújo, Nagaswetha Mudunuri for their inspiring talks on AWS

P.S. – Always a joy being part of global AWS meetups <3