Good cloud design is less about “using the cloud” and more about creating systems that are dependable, observable, secure, and cost-aware — without building an overly-complicated science project. I help teams design and implement cloud architecture that can grow with demand and evolve safely over time.
Whether you're launching something new, untangling a legacy setup, or preparing for enterprise-level expectations, we’ll focus on fundamentals: identity, networking, data, secrets, deployment, monitoring, and resilience — all with clean, repeatable patterns.
Cloud work can mean a lot of things, so I keep it practical: define the target architecture, harden the edges, automate the boring parts, and make the system understandable to the humans responsible for it.
If you're building on Azure, AWS, or a hybrid model, the goal stays the same: predictable deployments, secure-by-default services, and strong observability so you can see problems before customers do.
Identity, least privilege, secrets management, and safe defaults across services.
CI/CD, environment isolation, and repeatable infrastructure patterns you can trust.
Logging, metrics, tracing, alerts, dashboards, and practical incident readiness.
Right-sizing, caching strategies, and scaling that doesn’t light money on fire.
Yes. That usually starts with the basics: tighten identity and secrets, add observability, harden networking, make deployments repeatable, and introduce resilience patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, health checks). The result is a system that behaves predictably under real-world conditions.
Azure is common (especially with .NET teams), but the core principles apply everywhere. I can help with AWS, hybrid designs, and practical cross-cloud patterns — focusing on outcomes instead of buzzwords.
By making security the default: identity-first access, secrets in a vault, locked-down networking, and automated checks in CI/CD. When the guardrails are built into the workflow, teams move faster because fewer mistakes reach production.
A short architecture review: current diagram (even rough), goals, constraints, and pain points. From there, I’ll propose a practical target design and a phased plan that delivers real improvements early — not a six-month detour into “cloud purity.”