# Daniel Shone

**Cloud Solutions Architect | AWS & Azure Certified**

- Location: Stenson, Derbyshire, UK
- Email: dan@myaws.co.uk
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danshone

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## About

I am an AWS and Azure certified solutions architect with a software engineering background. I hold 10 active AWS certifications, 3 Azure certifications and specialise in cloud architecture, migration and AI integration. I lead customer engagements from discovery through design to implementation, covering landing zones, multi-account governance, migration programmes and AI agent development. I use AI development tooling to rapidly prototype and deliver working solutions, bridging the gap between architecture and implementation. I came from 17 years in software engineering before moving into cloud, which means I think about operability and maintainability as much as architecture.

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## Skills

- AWS Architecture
- Migration & Landing Zones
- AI/ML (Bedrock, AgentCore, Agents)
- Terraform / IaC
- AI-Assisted Development
- Azure

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## Professional Experience

### AWS Solutions Architect | Rebura Ltd
**February 2022 - Present**

- Leading customer engagements from discovery through architecture design to implementation handover
- Designing landing zones, multi-account architectures and migration strategies
- Delivering AWS MAP Assess and Mobilize phases across UK and international clients
- Conducting Well-Architected Framework Reviews and producing remediation plans
- Building AI agent solutions using Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore, including knowledge bases and tool-use patterns
- Designing and delivering Agentic AI Accelerator workshops for clients
- Terraform and CloudFormation infrastructure-as-code across multi-account environments
- Producing HLDs, LLDs, migration plans and technical proposals

### Cloud Instructor (AWS & Azure) | AWS Academy Programme (Alumni)
**January 2023 - Present**

- Delivered AWS Cloud Practitioner, Architecting, Security, Advanced Architecting and Data Engineering courses
- Upskilled in Microsoft Azure to teaching level (AZ-104, AI-102, DP-700)
- Created and maintained course slide decks from AWS and Azure source material
- Administered the Academy SharePoint site and co-developed subsites
- Training the next generation of cloud talent
- Supporting upcoming AWS instructors
- Co-hosted live in-person student meetup and learning session at ATP headquarters
- Achieved AWS Champion Instructor status

### AWS Solutions Architect | CirrusHQ Ltd
**October 2021 - February 2022**

- Performing AWS Well Architected review remediation (CloudFormation, Azure DevOps, AWS Code pipeline)
- Working with various non-profit organisations assist in their migration to AWS
- Cloud software development (Terraform, Python, DynamoDB)

### Senior Software Engineer | Intelligent Distributed Controls Ltd
**June 2010 - October 2021**

- Design and development of bespoke customer systems (Using Microsoft Technologies and Android)
- Design/develop and support the in-house Warehouse Management System
- Design, implement and manage the multi account AWS cloud platform
- Developing bespoke interfaces to existing legacy systems, third party data processing services, financial systems, and barcode printing/labelling systems
- Management of the company's internal network working and IT systems
- Provision of first line customer support services, including remote technical support

### Product Development Engineer | Intelligent Distributed Controls Ltd
**June 2004 - June 2010**

- Embedded firmware development for in-house low power wireless product line (C/C++)
- Developing an automotive Kanban system utilising low power wireless systems

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## Training Delivery

### AWS Courses Delivered
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Architecting
- AWS Advanced Architecting
- AWS Security
- AWS Data Engineering
- AWS AI-related courses

### Azure Courses Studied & Delivered
- AZ-104 - Azure Administrator
- AI-102 - Azure AI Engineer
- DP-700 - Fabric Analytics Engineer

### Open Source & MCP/Kiro Power Development
- confluence-downloader - Kiro Power and MCP server for downloading Confluence Cloud pages as Markdown with images (Python)
- confluence-markdown - Kiro Power and MCP server for bidirectional Markdown-to-Confluence sync with Mermaid rendering (Python)

### Personal Projects
- AWS Control Tower multi-account environment (production and development)
- AI Agent PoC - German building energy efficiency analysis (Amazon Bedrock, Python, LanceDB)
- Academy Calendar - Full-stack scheduling app (Lambda, CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB)
- md2docx - Automated Markdown to branded Word document pipeline

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## AWS Certifications

- AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional (February 2026)
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner (February 2026)
- AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate (February 2026)
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (March 2024)
- AWS Certified Database - Specialty (October 2023)
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty (February 2022)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (September 2021)
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate (May 2021)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (April 2021)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (March 2021)

## Microsoft Azure Certifications

- Azure AI Engineer Associate, AI-102 (May 2025)
- Azure Administrator Associate, AZ-104 (November 2024)
- Azure Fundamentals, AZ-900 (October 2024)

## Additional Credentials

- AWS Authorized Instructor (Alumni) - January 2023 - Present
- AWS Well-Architected Proficient (September 2022)
- Green Software for Practitioners, Linux Foundation (June 2023)

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## Education

### The Nottingham Trent University
**September 2000 - June 2004**

Degree in Electronics and Computing - 2:1 BEng (Hons)