🔧 I'm a hands-on cloud architect based in Melbourne, Australia, with extensive experience designing and implementing secure, scalable, and cost-optimized solutions across AWS and Azure ecosystems. I specialize in transforming legacy systems into cloud-native, microservices-based architectures and automating infrastructure using IaC principles.
- 🎯 Cloud Architecture: Build resilient, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure using AWS Well-Architected Framework, Azure best practices, and IaC.
- ☁️ AWS Expertise: Lambda, EKS, EC2, RDS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, Control Tower, and more.
- ☁️ Azure Workloads: App Services, AKS, Functions, Event Grid, Bicep, and ARM templates.
- 📦 Containers & Kubernetes: Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, Istio.
- 🔐 Security & Compliance: CIS benchmarks, Service Control Policies (SCP), Resource Control Policies (RCP), automated audits.
- 🛠️ DevOps & Automation: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, GitOps.
- 📈 Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Chaos Engineering.
- 🚀 Migrated 78+ CloudFormation stacks to modular Terraform — improving reusability and multi-cloud readiness.
- ⚙️ Automated AMI baking and lifecycle alerts using Lambda, EventBridge, and SNS — reducing manual effort by 80%.
- 🧠 Architected enterprise-grade monitoring stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace.
- 🛡️ Designed and enforced org-wide AWS SCP/RCP policies as code for centralized governance.
- 💰 Achieved ~30% cost savings by re-architecting monoliths to serverless and implementing FinOps practices.
- ⛓️ Led secure, zero-downtime migration of 600+ VMs from on-prem to AWS and OpenStack.
- ☁️ AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- 📦 Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- 🧩 Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- 🛠️ HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- 🔷 Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
"I architect solutions that are cloud-first, automation-driven, and built to scale."