Achyutha Harish
Solutions Architect II · Amazon Web Services
Worldwide Public Sector — government & higher education in the US West
I partner with state and local governments and educational organizations to design and build on AWS — from cloud foundations to AI and HPC.
About
I'm a Solutions Architect at AWS, based in Portland, Oregon. I work with public sector customers — state and local government agencies and colleges and universities — helping them architect secure, scalable, and responsible solutions on the cloud.
Cloud architecture
Landing zones, multi-account governance, and cloud foundations that scale with an organization.
AI & generative AI
Real-world AI agents and generative AI workloads — from prototypes to production.
High-performance computing
HPC on AWS for research and scientific workloads, including ParallelCluster and workflow orchestration.
Education: M.S., Portland State University (2021–2023) · B.E., Visvesvaraya Technological University (2016–2020)
Experience
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Solutions Architect II
Amazon Web Services · Worldwide Public Sector
Partnering with state and local governments and higher education institutions across the US West to architect solutions on AWS — from cloud strategy and governance to AI and high-performance computing.
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Senior Cloud Software Engineer
InformIns · Hillsboro, OR
Built and scaled cloud applications on AWS, with a focus on solution architecture and machine learning workloads.
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Associate Solutions Architect
Cloud303 · AWS Advanced Consulting Partner
Advised customers on AWS adoption with a focus on HPC and AI/ML — from architecture design to hands-on implementation.
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Software Engineering Intern
Sonata Software · AWS DevOps Team
Started my cloud journey on an AWS DevOps team, building automation and deployment pipelines.
Volunteering: Head/Director of Kalaparva (Arts & Culture), 2016–2020.
Certifications
Seven AWS certifications and credentials, spanning architecture, development, AI, and public-sector specialization.
- Solutions Architect — Associate
- Developer — Associate
- AI Practitioner
- GenAI Foundational L100
- GenAI Technical Intermediate L200
- AI-DLC Ambassador — Foundational L100
- Industry Education — Intermediate L200
Speaking & Writing
Speaking
Montana AI Summit 2026
Session: “Building for the Future (AI-DLC)”
Writing
- Building a student enrollment forecasting chat agent on AWS
- Managing multi-account AWS tagging with Landing Zone Accelerator
- HPC on AWS for AI workloads
- AWS for the public sector: government & higher education
I post regularly on LinkedIn about cloud, AI, and the public sector — follow along there.
Contact
The best way to reach me is email — I usually reply within a couple of days.
hello@achyutha-harish.com