01 / Cloud architecture · systems thinking

Build the cloud.
Protect the calm.

I shape secure, observable and cost-conscious cloud platforms, from landing zones and network topology to multi-region resilience, governance and migration strategy.

CONTROL → DATA → EDGE → OBSERVE
∞RESILIENT BY DESIGN
EDGE / CDN IDENTITY DATA PLANE OBSERVABILITY
02 / Profile

Architecture is a set of decisions.

NimbusVault treats the cloud like a protected reserve: clear entry points, explicit trust boundaries, recoverable state and enough visibility to know what is happening before it becomes an incident.

How I work

I translate product goals into architecture that teams can actually operate. That means choosing managed services when they reduce burden, isolating blast radius, designing failure paths early, and making security and cost visible rather than bolted on later.

AWSAzureGCPKubernetesTerraformZero Trust
99.95availability target %
34platform initiatives
41architecture reviews
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The vault rule

Keep critical systems easy to reason about. Every important dependency should have a boundary, an owner, an observable signal and a credible recovery path.

03 / Architecture

Four layers. One operating model.

Expertise is shown as architectural building blocks rather than generic percentages, because cloud maturity is about how the pieces interact.

A01 · FOUNDATION

Landing zones that age well.

Account structure, identity, network segmentation, policy guardrails and reusable infrastructure patterns that give teams a safe starting point.

IAMNetworkingIaC
A02 · RESILIENCE

Failure is designed in.

Multi-AZ and multi-region strategies, recovery objectives, graceful degradation and tested failover paths.

RTO/RPODR
A03 · ECONOMICS

Spend with intent.

Capacity models, workload right-sizing, architecture trade-offs and cost signals that stay connected to product decisions.

FinOpsCapacity
A04 · OPERATIONS

Make the system legible.

Observability, SLOs, incident pathways and platform automation that turn production from a mystery into a measurable operating environment.

SLOsTelemetryAutomation
Cloud platform strategy
Security architecture
Migration planning
Cost & capacity design
04 / Journey

From infrastructure to platform thinking.

A focused career arc across cloud foundations, reliability engineering and architecture leadership.

Lead Cloud Architect · Northstar Platforms

Own reference architectures, platform standards and multi-region modernization programs across customer-facing workloads.

Cloud Solutions Architect · Meridian Systems

Designed landing zones, migration waves, identity models and resilient application platforms for growing engineering teams.

Infrastructure Engineer · Atlas Digital

Built automation, monitoring and production infrastructure while developing a systems-first approach to reliability.

05 / Selected work

Architecture under pressure.

Representative case studies focused on the decisions, trade-offs and operational outcomes behind the architecture.

CASE 01 · MULTI-REGION

Regional failover without turning every release into a ceremony.

Redesigned application boundaries, data replication and traffic management around explicit recovery objectives, then documented the operating playbook.

RTO ↓ 68%
CASE 02 · PLATFORM

One paved road for 40+ services.

Reusable infrastructure modules, identity patterns and observability defaults reduced platform drift and made new services easier to operate.

CASE 03 · ECONOMICS

Architecture that paid attention to the bill.

Mapped workload behavior to capacity decisions and removed avoidable spend without weakening reliability targets.

06 / Contact

Bring the hard system.

For cloud modernization, architecture reviews, platform strategy or resilience work, send a message and start with the problem.

Make complexity behave.

I’m available for architecture conversations, technical advisory work and platform design engagements.

✉ rohan@nimbusvault.example
☎ +44 20 7946 0321
◈ London, UK