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Buntu Stuurman
// Hi, I'm

Buntu
Stuurman

Cape Town, South Africa

I'm a Cloud Engineer with a Backend Software Engineering foundation. I build systems secure by instinct, scalable by design, and cost efficient by nature.

My work lives at the intersection of cloud architecture and software craft. You bring the idea, I translate it into an architecture diagram, align with you until it fits your vision, then build it.

// Tech Stack
Tool Domain
AWS Cloud
Azure Cloud
Terraform
 Terraform IaC
CloudFormation IaC
Python
 Python Backend
Java
 Java Backend
Docker
 Docker DevOps
GitHub Actions
 GitHub Actions DevOps

Credentials & Certs

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner badge Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 Verify ↗ AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate badge Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C03 Verify ↗ AWS Certified Security Specialty badge Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Security – Specialty SCS-C02 Verify ↗ Microsoft Azure Fundamentals badge Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 Verify ↗

Selected
Projects

05 case studies
01

Cloud Infrastructure Automation — CloudFormation

End-to-end automation of AWS resource deployment, lifecycle management, and rollback strategies using nested CloudFormation stacks.

CloudFormation IAM EC2
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02

Serverless Microservices — API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB

Zero-server microservice architecture with event-driven invocation, auto-scaling compute, and single-digit millisecond DB reads.

API Gateway Lambda DynamoDB
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03

Static Site Hosting on Amazon S3 + CloudFront

Decoupled content delivery at the edge — S3 origin, global CDN distribution, and sub-100ms TTFB across regions.

S3 CloudFront IAM
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04

High Availability — Auto Scaling Group + Application Load Balancer

Fault-tolerant multi-AZ architecture with health-check-driven replacement, traffic routing, and zero-downtime deployments.

EC2 ALB ASG
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05

Cloud Resume Portfolio — S3 + CloudFront + GitHub Actions

Full-stack cloud resume built on the Cloud Resume Challenge — static frontend hosted on S3, distributed via CloudFront CDN, with a GitHub Actions pipeline for automated deployments.

S3 CloudFront GitHub Actions
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What I
Build

From bare metal to the application layer, I design and deliver the full stack of cloud-native infrastructure.

SVC — 01

Cloud Architecture

Multi-cloud infrastructure design across AWS, GCP, and Azure. VPCs, IAM, networking, HA patterns, and disaster recovery.

SVC — 02

Serverless & Event-Driven

Lambda, Cloud Functions, event bridges, and queue-based architectures that scale to zero and back without blinking.

SVC — 03

Security & IAM

Least-privilege access, policy hardening, encryption strategies, and compliance-ready configurations baked in from day one.

SVC — 04

DevOps & IaC

Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines that make infrastructure as repeatable and reviewable as application code.

SVC — 05

Backend Engineering

Python, Java, and Node.js services — clean APIs, data pipelines, and the glue code that holds cloud-native systems together.

SVC — 06

Cost Optimisation

FinOps analysis, rightsizing, Savings Plans, spot strategy, and architectural refactors that cut cloud bills without cutting corners.

Let's
Connect

Have infrastructure to architect, a product to launch, or a cloud bill that's getting out of hand? I'm all ears.

Email
bstuurmanct@gmail.com
LinkedIn
Buntu Stuurman
GitHub
@buntu-s

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