Cloud Architect - Distributed Systems · 2026

Designing clouds that hold.

I architect resilient cloud platforms where infrastructure, security, data and developer experience fit together as one observable system.

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EDGE 01
DATA 02
SECURE 03
OBSERVE 04
01 / Capability map

The prism
has layers.

Cloud architecture is a multi-dimensional design problem: reliability, economics, security and delivery must remain legible at the same time.

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Architecture signal 📊

Reliability by design.

Multi-region patterns, failure-domain isolation, graceful degradation and recovery paths designed before production traffic arrives.

01 / Cloud foundations ☁️

Landing zones that scale with the organization.

Account structures, network topology, policy guardrails and reusable infrastructure patterns that make the paved road the easy road.

02 / Security 🔒

Zero-trust thinking

Identity-first access, workload isolation, secrets hygiene and continuous policy evaluation.

03 / FinOps 📈

Cost as architecture

Capacity strategy, unit economics and architectural trade-offs translated into measurable decisions.

04 / Toolset
AWSAzureGCPKubernetesTerraformCloudFormationArgoCDPrometheusOpenTelemetryIAM
02 / Architecture

From edge
to insight.

A reference platform view: traffic enters through resilient edges, moves through policy-controlled compute, and lands in observable data systems.

01 · EDGE

CDN, WAF, global routing, rate limiting and regional failover.

02 · COMPUTE

Container platforms, serverless workloads and autoscaling services.

03 · DATA

Durable storage, event streams, caching and analytical pipelines.

04 · OBSERVE

Metrics, logs, traces, SLOs and automated incident signals.

Architecture principle

Make failure boring.

Good architecture does not promise that systems will never fail. It makes failure contained, visible, recoverable and economically survivable.

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03 / Experience

Systems
in motion.

A career shaped around platform modernization, cloud adoption and the operational details that make architecture real.

Principal Cloud Architect · Northstar Systems

Owns multi-cloud reference architecture, platform standards and modernization roadmaps for high-volume digital products.

Cloud Solutions Architect · Meridian Labs

Led migration programs, Kubernetes adoption and observability foundations across product and data teams.

Infrastructure Engineer · VectorWorks

Built the operational foundation that evolved from traditional infrastructure into automated cloud delivery.

04 / Selected work

Blueprints
with outcomes.

Representative projects showing the architecture decision, the system shape and the measurable result.

CASE 01 · GLOBAL PLATFORM

Multi-region commerce fabric

Re-architected a high-traffic commerce platform around active-active regional services, event-driven workflows and automated recovery.

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CASE 02 · GOVERNANCE

Cloud landing zone

Standardized identity, networking and policy controls across 80+ accounts without slowing delivery teams.

CASE 03 · OBSERVABILITY

Trace the signal

Introduced OpenTelemetry-based tracing and SLO dashboards to turn distributed-system ambiguity into actionable signals.

05 / Contact

Let's shape
the next layer.

For architecture reviews, cloud transformation, platform strategy or a complex system that needs a clearer blueprint, send a note.

✉ alex.cloud@example.com
◈ Amsterdam, Netherlands
in GH