Hi, I'm

Marika Bergman

Software Engineer

Hello!

I’m Marika, a backend engineer with experience in fullstack development and cloud engineering. Troubleshooting backend issues and crafting elegant solutions is what drives me. My cloud engineering journey, primarily with AWS, shares that same passion. My desire to share what I learn through technical writing landed me in the AWS Community Builders program, in the serverless category, allowing me to engage in exclusive AWS sessions and learn alongside other cloud professionals globally.

Please see below some of the things I have built and my resume - and visit my blog to explore my technical writing and insights.

Projects

AI-Powered Gardening Assistant

A proof-of-concept, backend-driven agentic AI system built on AWS Strands Agents SDK that provides personalised, weather-aware plant care guidance. The agent operates autonomously in an agentic loop: it retrieves plant profiles from DynamoDB, fetches real-time weather data, and uses the Nova Lite model to synthesise actionable recommendations.

Backend: AWS Strands Agents SDK, Amazon Nova Lite AI model, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Weather API
Infrastructure as Code: Cloudformation

GitHub Repository




Charity Website with Contact Form

A web app created with React and Mantine UI. The app features a user-friendly contact form, allowing users to submit information that is seamlessly forwarded to the admin via email. The frontend is deployed on AWS using CloudFront and S3 for efficient content delivery and hosting. The backend utilizes a serverless architecture with AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda and Amazon Simple Email Service.

Frontend: React, Mantine UI
Backend: Serverless backend with AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Email Service
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

Project Documentation

Cloud Resume Challenge

The website you are looking at was built as part of the Cloud Resume Challenge by Forrest Brazeal. It follows a fully serverless architecture: the frontend is hosted on S3 and delivered via CloudFront and Cloudflare, while a Lambda-powered API behind API Gateway updates visitor data in DynamoDB. The entire stack is deployed using AWS CDK and automated through GitHub Actions, with Cypress tests validating each deployment.

Frontend: AWS CloudFront, AWS S3, CloudFlare, HTML/CSS, Javascript
Backend: AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB
IaC:AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit)
CI/CD: GitHub Actions
Testing: Cypress

My blog post Frontend on GitHub Backend on github

  • Certificates & Professional Development

  • AWS Agentic AI Demonstrated

  • AWS Community Builder

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    Accepted into the AWS Community Builders program for serverless category. Participate in exclusive AWS sessions, contribute to the community through technical content, and collaborate with other cloud professionals worldwide.

  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

  • Education

  • Web Developer study module - JAMK University of Applied Sciences

    HTML/CSS, Javascript, Angular, SQL, NoSQL, NodeJS, practical assigment/fullstack project

  • AWS Cloud Project Bootcamp / ExamPro Training Inc

    AWS Cloud Project Badge

  • Terraform Beginner Bootcamp / ExamPro Training Inc

    Terraform Badge

  • MSc in Economics and Business Administration - University of Eastern Finland

    Master's Programme in Small Business



  • Skills

  • Javascript, Typescript

  • AWS serverless

  • NodeJS

  • Terraform

  • MongoDB

  • SQL

  • ReactJS

  • Docker

  • GIT

  • HTML/CSS

  • Cypress