Priya N. is a cloud architect and educator with fourteen years of experience spanning enterprise infrastructure, platform engineering, and technical training. She holds three advanced AWS certifications — Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, and Advanced Networking Specialty — and has designed production cloud environments for clients in e-commerce, life sciences, and media streaming.
Her career began in systems administration at a software company in Austin, where she managed on-premises infrastructure through the industry’s pivot toward virtualization and, eventually, public cloud. She led her company’s migration to AWS — a multi-year program involving over 200 workloads — and came away with a working knowledge of what actually breaks in cloud migrations: IAM policy gaps, cross-account networking oversights, cost modeling blind spots, and the organizational friction that stalls even technically sound projects.
At Boost eLearning, Priya teaches the complete AWS certification path from Cloud Practitioner through professional-level credentials. She approaches cloud training as an architecture discipline, not a console-clicking exercise. In Boost’s Live Lab environment, she walks students through scenarios pulled directly from real customer engagements: designing a multi-region failover architecture, securing an S3 data lake with appropriate bucket policies and SCPs, sizing a VPC for a microservices workload. The goal is always for students to understand the decision, not just the step.
Priya is deliberate about skills retention. She builds retrieval practice into every course — students explain a service back in their own words before moving on, and she returns to earlier concepts in later labs so nothing becomes siloed knowledge. She uses Boost’s spaced-repetition review features between live sessions to surface exactly the concepts students are most likely to misremember on exam day.
She has spoken at regional cloud practitioner events and contributes written architecture guidance to her organization’s internal knowledge base. She mentors career-changers entering cloud roles and is known for being direct about what a given certification will and will not prepare you for in a real job.