Cloud architecture portfolio

Shape the cloud.
Keep it clear.

I design resilient cloud platforms where topology, security, cost and delivery work as one system, turning complicated infrastructure into an architecture teams can operate with confidence.

EDGE / CDN
DATA PLANE
CLOUD CONTROL PLANE
IDENTITY & ACCESS
OBSERVABILITY
01 / Architecture philosophy

Complexity,
cut into facets.

Architecture works like a crystal: many connected surfaces, one coherent form. Each decision must remain understandable under growth, failure and change.

I work across cloud foundations, platform engineering, distributed systems, security and reliability, with an emphasis on clear boundaries and automation.

The goal is not more cloud. It is the smallest dependable architecture that meets the product availability, performance, compliance and cost requirements.

99.95%availability target
38platform initiatives
42architecture reviews
02 / Capability facets

Every surface
has a purpose.

Expertise shown as architectural facets rather than generic percentage bars - a map of the decisions that make cloud systems dependable.

FACET / 01 ☁️

Cloud foundations

Landing zones, account and subscription structure, networking, IAM boundaries, policy and repeatable environment provisioning.

FACET / 02 🛠️

Resilience

Multi-zone patterns, failure domains, recovery objectives, graceful degradation and tested disaster-recovery paths.

FACET / 03 🚀

Platform engineering

Infrastructure as code, golden paths, internal platforms and delivery workflows that make the safe path the easy path.

FACET / 04 🔒

Cloud security

Least privilege, segmentation, secrets, encryption, policy-as-code and threat-aware architecture reviews.

FACET / 05 📈

FinOps architecture

Cost-aware workload design, unit economics, capacity choices, tagging strategy and practical optimization loops.

FACET / 06 📊

Observability

Metrics, logs, traces, SLOs and actionable operational signals that connect technical behavior to user impact.

03 / Selected architecture

Proof in
production.

Selected initiatives framed around the architectural constraint, the design move and the operational outcome.

CASE / 001

Multi-region commerce platform

Reworked a growing transaction platform around explicit failure domains, asynchronous workflows and automated infrastructure delivery. The result was a clearer recovery model and a safer path to regional expansion.

AWSTerraformKubernetesSRE
CASE / 002

Secure landing zone

Established account boundaries, centralized controls, network segmentation and identity guardrails for a multi-team cloud estate.

IAMPolicyNetworking
CASE / 003

Platform golden path

Created reusable infrastructure modules and delivery patterns so product teams could provision compliant services without rebuilding the foundation.

IaCCI/CDPlatform
04 / Experience

Decisions that
compound.

Career milestones across cloud transformation, platform delivery and production reliability.

Principal Cloud Architect · Northstar Systems

Lead architecture for cloud platforms supporting customer-facing workloads. Set reference architectures, reliability practices, security boundaries and modernization roadmaps across engineering teams.

Senior Cloud Engineer · Meridian Digital

Moved core services toward infrastructure as code, container platforms and automated delivery. Introduced repeatable environments and stronger observability across production systems.

Infrastructure Engineer · BluePeak Labs

Built the operational foundation for growing applications: networking, Linux systems, monitoring, backups, deployment automation and early cloud adoption.

05 / Contact

Bring the
hard system.

For platform modernization, cloud foundations, architecture reviews or reliability-focused transformations, send a short brief.

Good architecture starts with the constraints. Tell me what is changing, what must not break, and where the current system is getting in the way.

✉ nadia@example.com
◈ London, UK
in GH
Nadia Farrow / Cloud ArchitectMirror portfolio system · 2026