Cloud engineer with full-stack roots

I'm Lucas Bousselet, a software engineer moving deeper into AWS, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, reliability, and cloud architecture.My background is full-stack product engineering, which helps me design cloud systems with the application team in mind.

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Featured cloud project

JustReadIt: AWS SaaS architecture and Terraform deployment

A cost-conscious SaaS architecture for a fictional e-book marketplace, designed and partially deployed with Terraform on AWS. The project covers containerized compute, private networking, relational data, object storage, CDN delivery, IAM, CI/CD, and a production-readiness review.

AWSTerraformECS FargateRDS PostgreSQLS3CloudFrontCI/CDIAM

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ArchitectureBusiness constraints, AWS service choices, request flow, sizing assumptions, cost drivers, and tradeoffs.

ImplementationTerraform-managed ECS Fargate, ALB, RDS PostgreSQL, S3, CloudFront, ECR, IAM, and GitHub Actions.

Operations ReviewA self-audit covering reliability, security, observability, cost controls, and launch-readiness gaps.

Selected full-stack archive

Before focusing on cloud engineering, I spent years building full-stack applications. I keep a curated archive here because those projects show how I think about product workflows, testing, APIs, user experience, and technical communication.

Full-stack archiveApex OCR search project

A full-stack proof of concept combining Python video/OCR processing, MongoDB-backed search, and a React result UI.

PythonOCRMongoDBReact

Full-stack archiveJourney to Redux-land

An in-depth Redux article and interactive Star Wars demo covering state management, async flows, normalized state, and selectors.

ReduxRTKSelectorsSWAPI

Full-stack archiveCypress testing guide

A practical testing article with navigation, API, mocking, and UI interaction examples.

CypressE2EAPI mocks

Full-stack archiveRitualizer

A shipped React Native habit-tracking app write-up with Firebase, authentication, premium features, and mobile product thinking.

React NativeFirebaseMobile