Cloud Solution Architect designing enterprise Azure estates, datacentre exits and production AI.
Fourteen years in enterprise technology, eight of them across large-scale cloud platforms. I take complex customer initiatives from an ambiguous business need through target architecture, migration and integration, to a production hand-off that operations can actually run.
Fourteen years, built at
Most cloud programmes do not fail on the architecture diagram. They fail on the dependency nobody mapped, the identity model nobody agreed, or the hand-off that never happened. These are the parts I take responsibility for.
Enterprise cloud adoption run end to end — assessment and dependency mapping, target architecture, cutover, and the operational hand-off that makes it stick. Datacentre exits and workload modernisation at estate scale.
Production AI on Azure, designed for the parts that actually decide whether it ships: private networking, identity, capacity planning and cost. RAG and Copilot workloads on GPU compute and AKS-hosted inference.
Zero Trust as a working design rather than a slide — conditional access, hybrid identity, privileged access, network isolation and governance applied across multi-subscription estates without stopping the business.
Architect of record for a portfolio of large enterprise customers. Requirements workshops, systems impact analysis, executive briefings, escalation management, and traceability from definition through to production release.
Technologies and practices I use in anger, rather than a list of everything I have ever opened a portal for.
Whether it is an estate that has outgrown its design, a datacentre with a deadline, or an AI workload that needs to survive a security review — I am glad to talk it through.
