01 — Principal Cloud Architect · Founder
Natnael Mengesha
Cloud architect. Founder of Tacendum and MiranaPM.
I have spent nine years building on AWS — multi-account landing zones on Organizations and Control Tower, the network foundation for a $32M program, and enterprise GenAI on Amazon Bedrock. I founded Tacendum and MiranaPM, and I serve as an Associate Principal Architect at Guidehouse. I am also partway through a Doctor of Engineering in AI and machine learning at GWU.
- 9
- yrs on AWS
- 13
- certifications
- 2
- companies founded
Ventures
Founder — technology venture.
tacendum.com →Founder — project management platform.
miranapm.com →The arc
Nine years, one direction. The shape of the journey — the detail lives in the resume.
- 2024–
Associate Principal Architect
Guidehouse
The platform layer: Organizations and Control Tower foundations, the network behind a $32M program, and enterprise GenAI on Amazon Bedrock — shipped as guardrails and paved paths, not slideware.
Landing zones · GenAI / Bedrock · Platform governance
- 2026–
Doctor of Engineering, AI/ML — in progress
George Washington University
Going deeper on the discipline the industry is racing to operationalize.
AI/ML research
- 2025–2026
The certification sprint
AWS · Anthropic · HashiCorp
Eight advanced certifications in eighteen months — three AWS Professional, two Specialty, Claude Certified Architect — earned alongside the day job, not instead of it.
3× AWS Professional · 2× Specialty · Claude Architect
- 2019–2024
Lead Cloud Architect
Accenture Federal Services
Five and a half years architecting federal cloud at scale: multi-account landing zones aligned to NIST 800-53, a TIC 3.0 zero-trust pilot, serverless payment pipelines, and container platforms on EKS/ECS.
Federal cloud · Zero trust · Serverless · EKS/ECS
- 2018–2019
Cloud Consultant
Capgemini
Moved 50+ applications to AWS and shaped the multi-tenant reference architecture they landed on.
Migration at scale · SaaS foundations
- 2017–2018
Cloud Developer
Cognizant
Networks, centralized logging, and the Infrastructure-as-Code habit — CloudFormation and Terraform before they were table stakes.
VPC design · IaC · Observability
- 2017
Ground Truth Engineer
Duostech
Where AWS and machine learning first intersected: access control done right, early migrations, and training data for computer-vision models.
First AWS builds · ML ground truth
Credentials
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
- AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Claude Certified Architect – Professional
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty
- AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
- AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Claude Certified Developer – Foundations
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- ICAgile Certified Professional
Doctor of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning George Washington University · in progress
M.S. Cloud Computing Architecture University of Maryland Global Campus
B.S. Computer Science University of North Florida
Selected work
Contact
Open to principal and lead architecture roles, advisory engagements, and interesting problems on AWS.
hello@natnael.co- LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/natnael-mengesha-432045157
- GitHub github.com/nmengesh