Janna Tien Pham

Cloud Engineer

jannaphm@gmail.com • LinkedIn • GitHub • Manassas, VA

Projects

Three-Tier Highly Available Web Application (in progress) 2026 – Present
Personal AWS Portfolio Project
  • Architecting a three-tier highly available web application on AWS using VPC and EC2 Auto Scaling, distributed across multiple Availability Zones and public/private subnets for fault tolerance.
  • Provisioning infrastructure as code with Terraform and scripting operational tasks in Bash, building toward a CI/CD pipeline for automated deployment.
Cloud Resume Challenge 2026
github.com/jntph/cloud-resume • live at jannatp.com
  • Designed and deployed a serverless personal resume site on AWS using S3, CloudFront, Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB, live in production at a custom domain.
  • Provisioned 100% of infrastructure as code with Terraform and automated deployments end-to-end with GitHub Actions using OIDC federation, eliminating long-lived IAM access keys.
  • Hardened the stack with AWS WAF managed rule groups, least-privilege IAM policies, and AWS Budgets cost alerts.
Winning Space Race with Data Science – IBM Data Science Capstone 2024
github.com/jntph/IBM-Data-Science-Capstone-Project
  • Built an automated data pipeline consuming the SpaceX REST API and web-scraping (BeautifulSoup) launch records, normalizing results into a structured Pandas dataframe for analysis.
  • Developed an interactive Plotly Dash dashboard and Folium map to visualize launch site outcomes, payload mass distributions, and success rates.
  • Trained and benchmarked four classification models (Logistic Regression, SVM, Decision Tree, KNN) to predict Falcon 9 first-stage landing outcomes; SVM achieved 80%+ prediction accuracy.

Skills

Cloud

  • AWS (S3, CloudFront, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, IAM, Route 53, ACM, WAF, CloudWatch, VPC, EC2)

IaC & CI/CD

  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions (OIDC)

Languages

  • Python
  • Bash
  • HTML / CSS / JavaScript

Experience

Instructor June 2025 – August 2025
Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes • Fairfax, VA
  • Delivered one-on-one instruction using structured, evidence-based Lindamood-Bell programs, adapting techniques session-by-session to each student’s cognitive and learning profile to accelerate reading and processing gains.
Certified Medical Assistant January 2015 – January 2017
Rosewood ENT (Texas ENT) • Houston, TX
  • Delivered direct patient care and maintained health records for an ENT practice, analyzing patient and visit data to surface workflow gaps, driving a 20% increase in care-team efficiency and patient satisfaction.
  • Served as a live scribe alongside physicians in fast-paced clinical settings, delivering accurate, real-time documentation under pressure — a precision and reliability mindset that carries directly into technical and operational work.
Referral Coordinator May 2012 – January 2015
Pucillo Family Practice • Sugar land, TX
  • Built and managed a new referral tracking database in the eClinicalWorks EMR during the practice’s full system migration, cutting referral processing time by 80% and reducing administrative resource overhead.

Certifications

Education

Bachelor of Science • Biomedical Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) 2009
Virginia Commonwealth University • Richmond, VA

Volunteering

Sangha Laity Training Program January 2018 – November 2023
City of Ten Thousand Buddhas • Ukiah, CA
  • Completed a 5-year structured leadership and community service program within a diverse, international volunteer community, building time management, cross-cultural collaboration, and organizational skills.