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Ruth User

@ruthuser15

Cloud Engineer at StateStreet modernizing AWS infrastructure and moving legacy workloads to containerized microservices on Amazon EKS.

United States

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At StateStreet, I architect and maintain AWS infrastructure for mission-critical financial workloads, and lead migrations of legacy systems to containerized microservices on Amazon EKS.

Previously at FannieMae, I architected event-driven workflows with Step Functions, SQS, SNS, and Lambda, and developed automated error handling that reduced incident response time by 40%. I also built monitoring systems and provisioned infrastructure with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Cloud Engineer

Current

State Street

Sep 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Architect and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical financial workloads with 99.99% uptime SLA adherence. Lead cloud-native migration initiatives and implement DevSecOps pipelines.

AWS Amazon EKS DevSecOps SAST DAST AWS Config IAM AWS Organizations Cost Optimization Reserved Instances Optimization SPOT Instances

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Fannie Mae

Jun 2022 - Aug 2025 (3 years 2 months)

Architected resilient distributed workflows on AWS using Step Functions, SQS, SNS, and Lambda. Developed automated error-handling frameworks and monitoring systems, reducing incident response time by 40%.

AWS Step Functions Amazon SQS SNS Lambda Cloudwatch Terraform CloudFormation VPC Security Groups NACLs AWS WAF IaC Event Driven Architecture

Software Engineer Consultant

Genspark

Oct 2021 - Jan 2024 (2 years 3 months)

Delivered full-stack application enhancements and bug fixes in agile sprint cycles. Integrated Java Spring Boot microservices with AWS services and built Python automation scripts for data processing.

Java Spring Boot AWS S3 RDS Secrets Manager Python Jenkins Git CI CD Agile Microservices

Software Developer Intern

Branch Insurance

Dec 2020 - Jul 2021 (7 months)

Developed internal JavaScript web applications for Sales and Service teams. Built RESTful API integrations with Zendesk to automate ticket routing and SLA tracking.

JavaScript REST APIs Zendesk Root Cause Analysis Cross Functional Collaboration