Ilyas Hamada

Seeking a customer-facing technical role bridging architecture and advisory.

📍 Paris, France · 📧 ilhamada@amazon.fr · ☎️ +33 6 72 51 20 75 · 🔗 LinkedIn

AWS-certified Solutions Architect Professional with 4 years at Amazon spanning engineering, business, and cloud. Proven track record driving automation, AI adoption, and data-driven solutions at scale, combining technical depth with customer impact.


Professional Experience

Brand Specialist (L4–L5), Amazon Retail

Apr 2022 – Present · Promoted to L5 in Q3 2025
  • Owned a €50M annual supplier portfolio across 10 European marketplaces including the largest EU Pets Supplies account.
  • Designed and deployed automation solutions that reduced Deals processing time by 30%, supporting €105M annual Deal OPS across EU teams.
  • Expanded Deals programs from EU5 to EU10 marketplaces generating €3M Deal OPS in new marketplaces (BE, SE, PL, IE).
  • Partnered with BI Engineering to design and deploy List Price Optimization dashboards on QuickSight, delivering ~€800K annual free cash flow savings.

Project Engineer, Vinci Energies (Building & Infrastructure)

Nov 2020 – Mar 2022
  • Led 5+ technical infrastructure projects (IT, digital, energy) for enterprise clients with budgets up to €2M, coordinating cross-functional teams of 10+ stakeholders.
  • Designed and proposed scalable IoT monitoring architectures for construction sites, reducing equipment downtime by 30% through predictive maintenance dashboards.
  • Served as technical advisor to non-technical clients, translating complex infrastructure constraints into actionable recommendations aligned with their business objectives.

Projects

GenAI Chat App, Serverless + Bedrock

Services: CloudFront · API Gateway · Lambda · Bedrock · Cognito · SAM

Serverless chat application connected to Amazon Bedrock via the Converse API. 100% serverless, production-ready, deployable via SAM in one command.

  • Event-driven architecture with zero server management: CloudFront → API Gateway → Lambda → Bedrock
  • Security end-to-end: TLS, IAM least privilege, HttpOnly Secure cookies, CORS restricted
  • Full IaC deliverable (template.yaml + app.py) with architecture decision documentation and interactive diagram

WordPress Migration, 3-Tier HA Architecture

Services: ALB · EC2 Auto Scaling · RDS MySQL Multi-AZ · Read Replica · CloudFormation · VPC

Migration of a WordPress blog to a highly available and secure AWS architecture, aligned with the Well-Architected Framework.

  • 3-tier architecture across 2 AZs: ALB → ASG (2–4 instances in private subnets) → RDS Multi-AZ + Read Replica in isolated subnets
  • Infrastructure entirely coded in CloudFormation, reproducible deployment in one command
  • Decisions.md documenting architectural trade-offs and alignment to the 6 pillars of the Well-Architected Framework

Cloud Resume Challenge (this site)

Services: S3 · CloudFront · Route 53 · API Gateway · Lambda · DynamoDB · ACM

Personal resume website deployed as a static site on AWS with a serverless backend for a live visitor counter.

  • Static site served via CloudFront with ACM certificate and custom domain
  • REST API (API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB) powering a real-time visitor counter
  • CI/CD pipeline for automated deployment

Education


Leadership & Skills