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Erica Brooks
Junior Solutions Architect with experience in requirements, architecture tradeoffs, adoption, and customer outcomes. Practical work includes Cloud architecture, Requirements discovery, Architecture trade-offs, Proof of concept.
Experience
Amazon
Seattle · United States
Junior Solutions Architect
Jul 2025 - now
- With a senior colleague reviewing the change, ran technical discovery for a partner integration, mapping API permissions, event ownership, and customer requirements into an architecture decision record with explicit unsupported cases.
- Within an assigned workstream, validated the integration architecture with retry, rate-limit, and permission-revocation tests; showed partners the technical recovery path instead of relying on a successful happy-path API call.
- Within the assigned scope, translated a customer workload into a reference architecture with identity, network and recovery boundaries; tested the highest-risk integration in a proof of concept before the design review.
- Within the assigned scope, owned an AWS integration assessment using networking and identity diagrams, resolved an unsupported routing assumption before the customer approved the architecture.
- Within the assigned scope, released technical documentation with tested security boundaries and recovery steps, enabling a customer team to reproduce the cloud proof of concept from a clean account.
Cisco
San Jose · United States
Solutions Architect Project Contributor
Mar 2024 - Jun 2025
- The team ran architecture office hours for 34 partner engineers; my scope was data preparation, quality checks, and follow-up documentation under senior review. The team gave support and product owners a clearer follow-up path; documented my assigned work separately from the team result and confirmed it with a senior colleague.
- Within the assigned scope, updated a troubleshooting article after reproducing a reported failure, separated user actions from administrator-only steps, and checked the procedure with a colleague using a clean setup.
- Within the assigned scope, reproduced a customer issue on a clean configuration, compared the working and failing settings, and tested the proposed correction without administrator privileges. Published a troubleshooting sequence that preserved the customer’s original configuration.
Selected project
Solutions Architect — independent case study
Project team member
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
- Within the assigned scope, the team created a production-readiness review covering 28 security and reliability controls; my scope was data preparation, quality checks, and follow-up documentation under senior review
- Configured a separate test environment with a documented network diagram, account permissions and failure scenarios; captured the logs needed to distinguish connectivity, authentication and application faults.
- Tested the recovery guide from a fresh account, checked required permissions at each step, and added rollback instructions where a configuration change could disrupt the working baseline.
- Owned the recovery rehearsal using an isolated test account, resolved a missing permission prerequisite and completed the restore without changing the working baseline.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Computer Science
Sep 2021 - Jun 2025
Relevant coursework: Algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks
Skills
Role expertise
Cloud architecture · Requirements discovery · Architecture trade-offs · Proof of concept
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
Nov 2024
Publications
- Published an independent troubleshooting guide using annotated logs, separating connectivity, authentication and application failures and documenting the rollback decision at each step.


