Nick Richardson

About Nick Richardson

I’m a Cloud Engineer at The Hartford with a passion for driving cloud migrations and building scalable, reliable, and efficient cloud-native solutions. My expertise spans AWS (IAM, SQS, ECS, ECR), CI/CD pipelines, and Terraform, and I hold the AWS Certified Developer credential. I thrive at the intersection of engineering and collaboration, using strong communication skills to guide cross-functional teams and deliver solutions that make a measurable impact.Beyond cloud infrastructure, I bring a solid software development background in Java and Python, and I’m especially excited about the potential of AI and machine learning to transform the way we solve problems. Currently, I’m pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, concentrating in Artificial Intelligence, to deepen my technical foundation and push the boundaries of what’s possible in intelligent cloud-driven systems.What drives me is combining cloud engineering, migrations, and AI/ML to design solutions that are not only technically sound but also forward-looking, adaptable, and impactful.I’m always open to connecting with fellow technologists, innovators, and problem-solvers who share a passion for cloud and AI.

Experience

1. Associate Cloud Engineer

   The Hartford

   Mar 2025 — Present

   Cloud Engineering • Design and deploy scalable AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation, ensuring consistent, repeatable environment provisioning.• Built and maintained ALB → ECS (Fargate) architectures to support containerized, high-availability application workloads.• Optimized Infrastructure-as-Code workflows with modular Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and environment-specific configurations.• Built a Proof of Concept leveraging Amazon EventBridge to trigger a daily Lambda function that captured the current state of an Amazon Connect environment, and implemented a second Lambda invoked on every Amazon Connect Write API call to log and identify updated resources—significantly improving visibility into configuration changes and helping reduce downtime through faster issue diagnosis.Software Engineering• Develop REST APIs in Java, including one that integrated with the Paymentus API to support IVR payment processing, improving system automation and customer self-service capabilities.

Education

• Fairfield University

  BS, BA, Physics, Computer Science

  2018 — 2022

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science