As a Cloud Principal, I lead cloud transformation initiatives and architect enterprise-scale solutions with a primary focus on Microsoft Azure. I'm passionate about driving innovation through cloud technology, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices. My expertise spans cloud architecture, security, governance, and operational excellence at scale.
- 🏗️ Cloud Architecture: Designing and implementing enterprise-grade cloud solutions
- 🔐 Security & Compliance: Building secure, compliant cloud infrastructures
- 🤖 Automation First: Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and DevOps excellence
- 📊 Strategic Leadership: Guiding teams and organizations through cloud adoption
- 🌱 Continuous Learning: Staying ahead of emerging cloud technologies and best practices
- 🏗️ Multi-Region Azure Landing Zones - Implementing enterprise-grade landing zones with Terraform
- 🤖 GitOps Workflows - Deploying ArgoCD and Flux for declarative infrastructure
- 📊 FinOps Framework - Developing cost optimization practices and governance models
- 🔐 Zero Trust Architecture - Building comprehensive security models for hybrid cloud environments
- 🚀 Platform Engineering - Creating internal developer platforms with self-service capabilities
| 🏢 Migrations | 💰 Cost Savings | 👥 Teams Led | 🚀 Uptime | 🔒 Security |
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| 15+ Enterprise | 40% Average Reduction | 20+ Engineers | 99.99% SLA | Zero Breaches |
- 🌐 Led large-scale cloud transformations across Fortune 500 organizations
- 💡 Architected solutions processing millions of transactions daily
- 📈 Drove adoption of DevOps practices reducing deployment time by 85%
- 🎓 Mentored cloud engineers advancing to senior architect roles
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Terraform ████████████████████░ 95%
Ansible ███████████████████░░ 90%
Bicep ██████████████████░░░ 85%
ARM ████████████████░░░░░ 80%
PowerShell ███████████████████░░ 90%
Python ██████████████████░░░ 85%
Bash ███████████████████░░ 90%
Cloud Native & Container Orchestration:
Security & Compliance:
FinOps & Cost Management:
Operating Systems:
Virtualization & Containers:
- Routing Protocols: EIGRP, OSPF, BGP
- Network Security: pfSense, OPNsense, Firewalls, VPNs, WAF
- Cloud Networking: VNets, VPCs, Load Balancers, NSGs, Security Groups, Transit Gateway
- VoIP & Unified Communications: SIP, Teams, WebRTC
- Cisco Technologies: Switching, Routing, Security Appliances
- Network Security: pfSense, OPNsense, Firewalls, VPNs
- Cloud Networking: VNets, VPCs, Load Balancers, NSGs, Security Groups
- Tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch
- ITSM: Atlassian Jira & Confulence, Service Now, Data Dog, Zabbix, PagerDuty, Nagios
- Logging & Analytics: Application Insights, Log Analytics
- Version Control: Git, GitHub, Azure Repos, GitLab
- CI/CD Pipelines: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Jenkins
- GitOps: ArgoCD, Flux, Atlantis
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Podman
- Automation: Jenkins, Azure Automation, Rundeck
Application setup script for automated Windows software deployment using Windows Package Manager.
Tech Stack: PowerShell, Windows Package Manager, Automation
Highlights:
- 🚀 One-command software deployment
- 📦 Package management automation
- ⚙️ Configuration-driven installations
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Cloud Architecture
Multi-Cloud Strategy
Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Microservices Design
Serverless Architecture
Security & Governance
Zero Trust Architecture
Compliance & Auditing
Identity Management
Security Best Practices
Infrastructure Automation
Infrastructure as Code
Configuration Management
GitOps
CI/CD Pipelines
Operational Excellence
Monitoring & Observability
Cost Optimization
Performance Tuning
Disaster Recovery
"Build with purpose, architect for scale, secure by default, optimize relentlessly."
- 🎯 Customer-Centric: Every architecture decision serves business outcomes
- 📚 Teach to Scale: Knowledge sharing multiplies impact exponentially
- ⚖️ Pragmatic Innovation: Balance cutting-edge technology with battle-tested solutions
- 🔒 Security First: No compromise on security fundamentals
- 💰 Value-Driven: Cost optimization is architecture, not afterthought
- 🔄 Continuous Improvement: Systems and skills must evolve together
- ✅ Design for Failure: Build resilient, self-healing systems that embrace chaos
- 🔒 Security by Design: Implement defense-in-depth strategies from day one
- 📈 Scalability First: Design for elastic growth and performance at scale
- 💰 Cost Optimization: Balance performance with cost efficiency through FinOps
- 🔄 Automation Everything: Reduce manual operations, increase reliability
- 📊 Observability: Monitor, measure, and optimize continuously
- 🌍 Cloud-Native Thinking: Leverage platform capabilities effectively
- 🚀 Developer Experience: Platform engineering that empowers teams
- 🎙️ Azure Community Meetups - Regular speaker on cloud architecture and DevOps
- 📍 Cloud Architecture Summit - "FinOps in Practice: Real-World Cost Optimization"
- 📍 DevOps Days - "Building Platform Engineering Teams"
- 📍 Local Tech Meetups - Monthly presentations on cloud technologies
- 👥 Mentorship: Active mentor for aspiring cloud architects
- 💬 Technical Forums: Regular contributor to Stack Overflow and Azure communities
- 🎓 Training: Conducted workshops on Terraform, Kubernetes, and Azure
- 📝 Knowledge Base: Building comprehensive cloud architecture documentation
- 📄 Building Resilient Cloud Architectures - Best practices for high availability
- 📄 Terraform Best Practices for Enterprise - Scaling IaC across organizations
- 📄 FinOps: Making Cloud Cost Everyone's Concern - Cultural shift in cost management
- 📄 Zero Trust in Hybrid Cloud - Security architecture patterns
- 📄 Platform Engineering 101 - Building internal developer platforms
- 🏗️ Cloud architecture patterns and anti-patterns
- 🔐 Cloud security and compliance frameworks
- 🤖 Infrastructure automation and GitOps workflows
- 📊 Cloud cost optimization and FinOps strategies
- 🌐 Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures
- 🚀 Platform engineering and developer experience
- 📖 "Cloud FinOps" - J.R. Storment & Mike Fuller
- 📖 "Kubernetes Patterns" - Bilgin Ibryam & Roland Huß
- 📖 "The Phoenix Project" - Gene Kim
- 📖 "Site Reliability Engineering" - Google
- 📖 "Infrastructure as Code" - Kief Morris
Infrastructure & Automation:
- Terraform - Infrastructure as Code
- Pulumi - Modern IaC with familiar languages
- Ansible - Configuration management
Security & Compliance:
- Checkov - IaC Security Scanning
- Trivy - Container security scanner
- Prowler - Cloud security assessment
Cost Optimization:
- Infracost - Cloud cost estimation in CI/CD
- Kubecost - Kubernetes cost monitoring
- Cloud Custodian - Cloud governance
GitOps & Platform:
I'm always interested in discussing cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and technology leadership.
- 💼 Architecture Reviews - Review and optimize your cloud architecture
- 🎤 Speaking Opportunities - Conferences, meetups, podcasts
- 🤝 Consulting Projects - Enterprise cloud transformations
- 👨🏫 Mentorship - Helping cloud professionals level up
- 📝 Technical Writing - Guest posts and collaborative content
- 🎮 When not architecting clouds, I'm building Minecraft servers (infrastructure everywhere!)
- ☕ Coffee consumption scales linearly with infrastructure complexity
- 🏃 Marathon runner - endurance in code and in life
- 📚 Read 50+ tech books annually and counting
- 🌍 Visited 12 AWS regions (personally, not just my code!)
- 🎸 Play guitar - debugging is just another form of troubleshooting chords
- 🌱 Homelab enthusiast with a rack that rivals small datacenters
Challenge: Migrate legacy monolithic application to cloud-native microservices Solution: Implemented Azure AKS with Istio service mesh, full CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions Results:
- 💰 60% infrastructure cost reduction
- 📈 99.99% uptime achievement
- ⚡ 10x deployment frequency increase
- 🔒 Zero-downtime migration
Challenge: Standardize security and compliance across Azure and AWS estates Solution: Policy-as-Code using Terraform, Azure Policy, and AWS Service Control Policies Results:
- ✅ 100% compliance across all cloud resources
- 🤖 Automated remediation reducing manual effort by 90%
- 📊 Audit-ready posture with complete traceability
- 🔐 Unified security baseline across clouds
Challenge: Uncontrolled cloud spend across 200+ subscriptions Solution: Implemented comprehensive FinOps practice with tagging strategy, cost allocation, and showback Results:
- 📉 40% reduction in overall cloud spend
- 👁️ 100% cost visibility and accountability
- 🎯 Chargeback model driving behavior change
- 📊 Executive dashboards for data-driven decisions
