Work

aldolushkja.it

Design system
Personal brand
IaC

Personal site and portfolio infrastructure — a static Astro build shipped to S3 and CloudFront by a single AWS CDK stack, with no manual deploy step.

This site is the smallest useful demonstration of how I like to ship things: a static build, an infrastructure definition that lives next to the code, and one command that takes both to production.

Build

Astro renders every page at build time. There is no client framework and no hydration — the only JavaScript that reaches the browser is a theme toggle and a navigation menu, both scoped to their own component.

Delivery

A single CDK stack owns the S3 buckets, the CloudFront distribution, the ACM certificate, and the Route 53 records. The frontend is bundled inside the CDK deploy itself, in a node:24 container, so the artifact that reaches S3 is reproducible from the commit alone. Every deploy invalidates the distribution.

What I would change

Move the origin behind Origin Access Control instead of a public bucket policy, and add a signed, versioned asset manifest.