Who Am I?
Hello, my name is Maurice Murphy and I’m a self-taught full-stack developer. With nearly a decade of experience building React, React Native and Node applications. I'm transitioning into Cloud Engineering and targeting AWS roles by Q3 2026. This is the first project in that journey. While I’ve worked with Amazon Web Services in the past (S3), this is by far the most extensive experience I’ve had with the platform thus far. While this is a portfolio project, my intentions are to create an end-to-end ecosystem all via AWS. The overarching goal cost efficiency, as well as, pure efficiency. This means only using services that are necessary for completing the task at hand. As someone who is studying for the SAA-C03, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of services provided by AWS. This is what I chose to build.
What Did I Make?
I built a serverless URL shortener, how it works is actually quite simple. The user copies a url, paste it the input field, they then get a short code back in return. From there, the user clicks the links and gets redirected to the desired destination. The services used were Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, and CloudFront. Honestly, the goal was not to reinvent the wheel, but to become more comfortable with creating systems and understanding infrastructure. Through my full-stack experience, I would unintentionally create somewhat complex systems. However, this project was my attempt at intentionally doing so.
