Chassidy Barker

Early-Career Cloud & AI Engineer | AWS | DevOps | AI-Powered Applications | Automation

Hi, I’m Chassidy.

Passionate about building secure cloud solutions, developing AI-powered applications, and automating workflows. I love turning ideas into working projects through hands-on learning, creativity, and problem solving.

I design and build secure cloud applications, AI-powered tools, automated workflows, and modern websites, turning ideas into practical, working solutions.

Technical Focus

Cloud Engineering

Building secure cloud-based solutions using AWS services, with hands-on experience in compute, storage, networking, architecture, and automation.

AI-Powered Applications

Creating practical applications using conversational AI, natural language processing, and machine learning to solve real-world problems.

 

Cloud Automation

Hands-on experience with serverless services, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and infrastructure as code to automate deployments and workflows.

Web Development

Designing and developing responsive, user-friendly websites and applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, and PHP, with professional experience developing and deploying website features.

Projects & Experience

Selected cloud engineering, serverless, automation, and professional web development work demonstrating hands-on problem-solving, secure architecture, and real-world implementation.

PERSONAL ENGINEERING PROJECT

AI Appointment Scheduler
V2.0 • AWS Serverless • Terraform

Built a secure appointment scheduling application with conversational booking, user authentication, and personalized appointment management. V2 expands the application with AWS serverless services, Terraform infrastructure-as-code, CloudWatch monitoring, and automated testing.

HTML • CSS • JavaScript • AWS Lambda • API Gateway • Terraform • IAM • CloudWatch • Supabase • PostgreSQL • GitHub Actions

AI Appointment Scheduler interface with conversational scheduling and appointment management dashboard
AI Appointment Scheduler application interface
PERSONAL ENGINEERING PROJECT

Serverless Intelligent Contact System

Built an AWS serverless contact application that validates and classifies inquiries before securely storing them in Amazon DynamoDB. Added CloudWatch monitoring, automated tests, AWS SAM infrastructure, and GitHub Actions CI.

AWS Lambda • API Gateway • DynamoDB • CloudWatch • IAM • AWS SAM • JavaScript • Node.js • GitHub Actions

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Live AWS serverless contact application that securely validates, classifies, and stores user inquiries.
PERSONAL MACHINE LEARNING PROJECT

AI Log Anomaly Detector

Built a Python log anomaly detector using Isolation Forest and severity scoring. Includes a Streamlit dashboard, CSV/JSON exports, Docker health checks, automated tests, GitHub Actions CI, and security scanning.

Python · scikit-learn · Isolation Forest · NumPy · Streamlit · Docker · pytest · GitHub Actions · CodeQL · Dependabot

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Streamlit dashboard running locally in a healthy Docker container.
Coursework Project

Amazon Lex Appointment Chatbot

Developed a conversational chatbot that collects appointment information using Amazon Lex intents, slots, and dialog flows. Integrated AWS Lambda processing and Amazon Cognito identity management, tested interactions in Jupyter Notebook, and recorded a video demonstration.

Amazon Lex • AWS Lambda • Amazon Cognito • Jupyter Notebook

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Amazon Lex chatbot collecting and confirming appointment details
AWS ACADEMY DATA ENGINEERING LAB

Real-Time Data Engineering & Schema Evolution

Completed a hands-on AWS data engineering lab focused on processing streaming IoT sensor data using Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, Apache Hudi, Amazon S3, and Athena. I configured and tested a streaming pipeline, verified dynamic schema changes, and used SQL queries to analyze updated records in near real time.

AWS Glue • Kinesis • Apache Hudi • S3 • Athena • Python • SQL

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Streaming Data Pipeline & Schema Evolution
AWS CLOUD ARCHITECTURE LAB SERIES

AWS Cloud Architecture Lab Series

Designed, configured, and tested secure AWS environments through hands-on cloud architecture labs covering networking, high availability, serverless automation, containers, security, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

AWS EC2 • S3 • IAM • VPC • Lambda • CloudWatch • AWS CLI • Linux

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Secure AWS Architecture, Automation & Monitoring
PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP PROJECT

Milberger’s SEO Preparation & Website Updates

Supported SEO preparation and website updates for Milberger’s Landscaping & Nursery during my internship. Worked in WordPress to update content, improve site structure, and prepare pages for search optimization while helping maintain a polished and user-friendly website.

WordPress • Elementor • ACF • HTML • CSS • PHP • JavaScript • SmartCrawl SEO

Milberger’s Landscaping & Nursery homepage showing plants, trees, and outdoor garden displays
Website updates completed for Milberger’s Landscaping & Nursery, focused on structure, usability, and SEO preparation.
PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP PROJECT

TRC4 Carousel
Banner Feature Development

My first project at Public Alliance was developing a custom carousel banner for TRC4 using WordPress, Elementor, ACF, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and a custom shortcode. I built a fully responsive slider with dynamic images and buttons that the TRC4 team can update directly in WordPress. The feature was approved and deployed to their live production site.

WordPress • Elementor • ACF • PHP • CSS • JavaScript

Custom interactive carousel developed for the TRC4 website

Training

AWS Academy certifications supporting my cloud, security, operations, and machine learning experience through hands-on technical training.

AWS Academy Graduate
Data Engineering

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Completed the AWS Academy Data Engineering course covering AWS cloud data engineering, data pipelines, and securing data.

AWS Academy Graduate - Machine Learning
for Natural Language Processing

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Training in machine learning and natural language processing using AWS concepts and best practices.

AWS Academy Graduate
Cloud Architecting

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Completed training in designing secure,
scalable, and reliable AWS cloud architectures.

AWS Academy Graduate
Cloud Security Foundations

Training in AWS security fundamentals, identity
management, and cloud security best practices.

AWS Academy Graduate
Cloud Operations

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Training in monitoring, operating, and
supporting AWS cloud environments.

AWS Academy Engineering
Operations Technicians

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Training in cloud operations, infrastructure
fundamentals, troubleshooting, and technical support.

AWS Academy Machine
Learning Foundations

Foundational training in machine learning concepts,
workflows, and AWS-based ML solutions.

About Me

I’m an emerging Cloud and AI Engineer with a background in web development and a passion for building practical solutions through technology. I earned my Associate of Applied Science in Digital Media, graduating cum laude, and I’m completing my Bachelor of Applied Technology in Cloud Computing in December 2026, with a current GPA of 3.7.

My journey started in web development, where I gained hands-on experience with WordPress, Elementor, PHP, JavaScript, responsive design, and troubleshooting. During my internship, I designed and developed a custom carousel banner feature that the company loved, approved, and deployed to a live client website. Seeing something I created actually go into production was an exciting accomplishment for me. As I continued learning, I developed a strong interest in AWS cloud architecture, AI-powered applications, serverless computing, infrastructure as code, and automation.

Beyond my coursework, I’ve independently built projects involving AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Terraform, Supabase, Python, machine learning, and CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions. I’ve also gained hands-on experience with AWS data engineering, cloud security, and infrastructure through technical labs.

I’m naturally self-directed and love figuring out how things work. I can get completely absorbed in solving a problem, learning something new, or finding a better way to build something. That’s what I enjoy most about technology: there’s always another challenge to tackle and something new to learn.

Thank you for taking the time to explore my portfolio and projects! I’m excited about where this journey is taking me and would love the opportunity to bring my passion for technology, creativity, and problem solving to a team.

Contact me

Interested in connecting about AI, cloud engineering, automation, DevOps, or web development? I’m always open to career opportunities, networking, and collaboration.

I’d love to connect and hear about what you’re working on! Feel free to reach out through LinkedIn, GitHub, or preferably by email.