Ishan Sharma

CSE-I Big Data @awscloud
Ex SE-Intern @Pitney Bowes
MS IT Mgmt-21 @UTDallas
Ex @DXCTechnology

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

Happy to share this medal after passing the internal AWS board and earning the Amazon EMR Infrastructure SME recognition. 🏅

Grateful to my mentors at @AWS ! 🙏
https://t.co/6O4nTK4Uuu
#LearnAndBeCurious

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

Finally checked off a certification that had been on my list for a long time @databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark.
It definitely wasn't an easy exam.
As an @AWSSupport Cloud Engineer working with @awscloud EMR, I will be more confidently helping customers.

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

Finally moved to Mac in the AI era.

I pushed Windows as far as I could—from school labs and engineering projects to cloud-heavy grad school work and years of professional use.
The final nail: unsupported MCP servers I couldn’t afford to ignore,
Widows will be used for gaming.

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

#WhiteRockLake always been one of my favorite places in Dallas — for runs, walks, cycling, and peaceful moments.

Glad I got to give back by helping clean its shores during @amazon Volunteering Month with fellow Amazonians across different teams.
#Dallas #WhiteRockLake #AWS

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

Volunteered at Dr. Frederick Douglass Todd Sr. Middle School in Dallas through an Amazon + Texas Trees Foundation initiative.
Hard work, muddy hands, and a beautiful cause
These trees will one day give shade, shelter, and fresh air to kids in their playground.

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

Huge thanks to @SMU for the invite to the AAPI Heritage Month Networking Reception.
Representing @awscloud at the Cox School of Business is a great opportunity to share my journey from F-1 to H-1B and support the next generation of global talent.

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

Represented @awscloud at the @SMU International Student Mixer tonight.
As someone who came to the US on F1 → CPT → OPT → H1B → I-140, it felt good giving back—helping students with career guidance, networking tips, and LinkedIn feedback.
Looking Forward to many such events.

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

Honored to receive the AWSome All-Star Award at Amazon! 🌟
Grateful to my manager & team for the support.
Always striving to Think Big, Earn Trust & Deliver for customers. 🙏
#AWS #LeadershipPrinciples #Gratitude

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

AWS Support goes a whole another level with Incident Detection & Response (IDR).

✅ 24/7 monitoring
⚡ 5-minute engagement on critical alarms
📘 Custom runbooks & response plans

Is proactive incident response a must-have or still a “nice to have”?

#AWS #CloudResilience

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

Are you a cracked engineer?

Startups in 2025 want: ownership, curiosity & grind.

Hiring trends: 50% backend, 25% #FullStack, 10–15% AI/ML, 5% frontend.

The best startups expect you to use AI tools like Copilot & Cursor.

So the question isn’t “Backend or Fullstack?”

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

Came to the U.S. on an F-1 in 2019 → got my H-1B through AWS in 2022.
Looking at official data, H-1B issuances have shifted fast:
2021: 61k
2022: 206k
2023: 265k (peak)
2024: 219k
Immigration shapes tech + innovation directly.
What role should it play in the U.S. future?

[Nick Turley @nickaturley]

We just launched ChatGPT Go in India, a new subscription tier that gives users in India more access to our most popular features: 10x higher message limits, 10x more image generations, 10x more file uploads, and 2x longer memory compared with our free tier. All for Rs. 399. 🇮🇳

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

☁️ 92% of workloads on cloud
🔗 Hybrid is the connector
📊 82% of IT leaders say hybrid = most satisfaction

I’m a Big Data Cloud Engineer @AWS in Dallas. Posting on Big Tech, AI & Cloud.
Connect 👉 https://t.co/5zffcTJ84t

#Cloud #AI #HybridCloud
#Cloud #HybridCloud #AI

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

The AI race feels insane right now.

A job ad on X literally says:
⚡ long hours
⚡ high pace
⚡ urgency under AGI timelines

Then Sergey Brin: “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity.”

Would you push 60+ hrs/week to be part of history when AGI arrives?

#AI #AGI

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

@sathyashrii Reservation

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

@elonmusk When he can do this I can learn Java script too and be a Hadoop SME

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

@elonmuskADO Twitter

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

@immigrant_boy88 @Dineshr2014 However,when we Indians pay taxes on a non immigrant visa, then we would need our interest fairly represented in the States. To have our family's ease of living,equal opportunity and education. That's when we need a skill based GC system that doesn't throttle progress here.

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

@immigrant_boy88 @Dineshr2014 Both of you have valid points.
If we Indians are so skilled and so talented and so genius then why can't we give back to our own mother land, what's the victim mindset about!

[Ishan Sharma @ishanutd]

With the latest fiasco of humongous #h1blottery applications still going on.
I was playing with publicly available official data of US non immigrant visa statistics in the month of March 2023.[1] I was just curious about:
What are the Top 10 countries in…https://t.co/PHJBp4LvAM