AhmadReza Mollapour
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AhmadReza Mollapour

AWS Solutions Architect | Worldskills International Expert and Project Designer

About

In love with technology and the cloud ☁️


AWS Solutions Architect with 12 years hands-on experience on developing automation solutions, designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems. Passionate problem-solver with a solid understanding of technology, automation, monitoring, discipline, and standards.

Experience

WorldSkills

Expert | Test Project Designer (Active)

WorldSkills International

Permanently Relocated

IT Network Systems Administration - Skill #39 (Active)

Feb 2021 - Present

  • Designing and developing authentic, industry-aligned test projects for the Skill #39 (IT Network Systems Administration)
  • Ensure alignment with WorldSkills Occupational Standards, competition rules, and infrastructure constraints.
  • Collaborating with Skill Management to deliver fair, secure, and technically rigorous assessments that differentiate excellence from competence

AWS Cloud Computing - Skill #53

Feb 2021 - 2025 · 4 yrs

South Korea • France

Helping all WorldSkills competitors and youth better learn cloud services, leverage best practices, and empowering them to build faster, more performant services and applications on the cloud. Working collaboratively within a six-member team from different countries to develop industry-standard solutions and practical scenarios for regional and national-level Cloud Computing competitions.

The four-day competition spans nearly the entire AWS service catalog, from foundational services such as EC2, S3, and RDS to more advanced solutions involving ECS, EKS, Lambda, Step Functions, IoT, and Bedrock—challenging participants to design, deploy, and optimize solutions across compute, storage, networking, security, and automation domains.

Ceph

Ambassador (Ended/Terminated)

Ceph

2022

Ceph is one of the most popular open-source software-defined storage platforms for building distributed storage systems with object, block, and file storage capabilities.

Facilitating the expansion and growth of the Ceph project through proactive efforts in coordinating meetups, engaging with diverse organizers and the tech community engineers, and promoting active involvement in contribution to the projects.

Ambassadors - Ceph
Ambassadors - Ceph

He is an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with 10 years of experience...

Public Cloud Service Provider

Network and Linux Administrator | SRE | SRE Lead (Ended/Terminated)

Public Cloud Service Provider

Iran

  • Actively contributed in designing, implementing, and maintaining DNS/CDN IP Anycast to improve worldwide network accessibility and decrease global latency and accessibility of the CDN servers
    • Established BGP peering with over 20+ worldwide service providers
  • Performed standard system administration tasks, including OS installation, system builds, patching, software installation, hardware upgrades, troubleshooting, and problem resolution
  • Optimized system and application performance and identified performance issues and solutions
  • Presentation on MENOG18 - Improving middle east network connectivity quality and latency by Peering and IP Anycast Network
  • Leveraged automation-first, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategies to decrease OPEX and reduce provisioning time for new clusters and products from several weeks to a couple of hours
  • Defined SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs
  • Managed and actively contributed to mitigating more than 100+ incidents with varying difficulty levels across different services, and conducted proactive blameless postmortems and root cause analysis (RCA)
    • Participated in the on-call rotation
WorldSkills International

Medalion For Excelence - IT Network Systems Administration Competitor (Ended/Terminated)

WorldSkills International

Aug 2015 - Aug 2015 · 1 mo

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Education

University of Applied Science and Technology

University of Applied Science and Technology

Associate degree, Computer Networks

University of Applied Science and Technology

University of Applied Science and Technology

Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Networks

Sharif University of Technology

Sharif University of Technology

Executive Master of Business Administration - EMBA

Licenses & certifications

AWS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Issued Feb 2025

AWS

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Issued Jan 2025

Microsoft

Microsoft MCSE 2012 - Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert

Microsoft

Issued May 2014

Credential ID 8246156

Microsoft

MCSA - Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate

Microsoft

Issued Jan 2014

Microsoft

MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft

Credential ID 8246156

Show all 13 licenses & certifications

Skills

Amazon DynamoDB AWS Step Functions Amazon Bedrock Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
Show all 56 skills