Welcome to Manuel Acosta's Portfolio, showcasing my expertise in cloud architecture and engineering solutions.
My focus is on designing scalable, resilient architectures that leverage cloud-native services to solve complex business challenges. I'm passionate about infrastructure as code, automated deployments, startups and building well-architected solutions.
Explore my portfolio of cloud projects. Each project demonstrates best practices in cloud architecture, cost efficiency, security, and operational excellence.
SelfTaughtCloud — the site you're reading — is a personal portfolio and blog engine that runs server-side Laravel as a fully serverless application on AWS, for less than $1/month in recurring cost.
I needed to put Amazon QuickSight dashboards directly inside a web application — secure, per-tenant, and without standing up a heavy BI portal. This is the serverless AWS architecture I built to do it, covering both authenticated users and anonymous embedding. Here's how the pieces fit together and the code that makes it work.