MJ Kubba
Principal Cloud Solutions Architect - The Hartford

20 years across IT, software development, and cloud architecture. I build things, break things, and occasionally write about it.

About

I've been a refugee, IT specialist, systems engineer, full-stack developer, cloud engineer, manager, and solutions architect. Currently I'm a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect at The Hartford, working across AWS and GCP.

Before that I spent 5+ years at AWS as a Solutions Architect - mostly with public sector customers, then as a Partner SA, and finally as a Go-to-Market SA for Amazon Q Developer, Kiro, and Bedrock AgentCore.

Outside of work - I swim, hike, and wrench on Subarus. One day I'll drive the Pan-American Highway.

Published Work

AWS DevOps Blog · April 2023 · with David Ernst and Sofia Kendall
AWS YouTube (Containers from the Couch)

Speaking - AWS re:Invent

Agentic AI / Kiro for DevOps
re:Invent 2025 · Chalk talk
Better together: GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild
re:Invent 2024 · DOP317 · Chalk talk
Build applications faster and secure with Amazon CodeWhisperer
re:Invent 2023 · DOP307-R · Workshop (383 attendees)
AIOps on AWS + DevOps Guru
re:Invent 2022 · 2 workshops (~160 attendees)
Resilient and well-architected apps with chaos engineering
re:Invent 2021 · BOA310 · AWS Fault Injection Simulator

Certifications

AWS SA - Professional 2018
AWS SA - Associate 2017
AWS SysOps - Associate 2021
AWS Developer - Associate 2020
AWS Cloud Practitioner 2018
Terraform Associate 2020
Azure Fundamentals 2019

Projects