T-Shaped Cloud Architect
Console prompt:Designing resilient systems on AWS for over a decade.
Experience
Roles, impact, and focus areas.
Solutions Architect
Jul 2024 – PresentAmazon Web Services • Greater Dublin, Ireland
Technical advisor for enterprise customers across FMCG, Gaming, and ISV sectors. Lead architectural design sessions, shape cloud adoption strategies, and guide implementations that raised scalability and cloud consumption.
- Influenced €10M+ pipeline; raised consumption up to 30%
- Reduced infrastructure spend by ~25% via optimization plans
- Led design sessions and multimillion-euro engagements aligned to business goals
- Accelerated hybrid deployments using best practices and reference designs
- Ran discovery and POCs to validate architectures and speed decisions
- Tracked consumption targets, risks, and deal progress with leadership
Solutions Architect
Jul 2024 – PresentAmazon Web Services • Greater Dublin, Ireland
Technical advisor for enterprise customers across FMCG, Gaming, and ISV sectors. Lead architectural design sessions, shape cloud adoption strategies, and guide implementations that raised scalability and cloud consumption.
- Influenced €10M+ pipeline; raised consumption up to 30%
- Reduced infrastructure spend by ~25% via optimization plans
- Led design sessions and multimillion-euro engagements aligned to business goals
- Accelerated hybrid deployments using best practices and reference designs
- Ran discovery and POCs to validate architectures and speed decisions
- Tracked consumption targets, risks, and deal progress with leadership
Core Capabilities
What I design, build, and operate.
Cloud & Networking
AWS Architecture
Multi-account landing zones, Well-Architected reviews, migrations at scale
Networking & Security
Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, VPN, WAF, GuardDuty, SCPs, IAM boundaries
Serverless & Event-Driven
Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, API Gateway, SQS/SNS
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform & CDK
Reusable modules, multi-region provisioning, state management, drift detection
CI/CD & GitOps
Pipeline design, blue/green & canary deployments, policy-as-code gates
Compute & Orchestration
Kubernetes & ECS
Cluster design, service mesh, autoscaling, cost-aware scheduling
Platform Engineering
Internal developer platforms, golden paths, self-service infrastructure
Reliability & Observability
SRE Practices
SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, capacity planning, chaos engineering, incident response
Observability Stack
CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, log aggregation
Architecture & Strategy
System Design
Domain-driven design, event sourcing, CQRS, microservices decomposition
Cost Optimization
FinOps, reserved capacity planning, rightsizing, showback/chargeback models
Compliance & Governance
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, automated compliance checks, audit readiness
Recent Posts
Latest thoughts and writings.
Choosing the Right Storage on AWS
A practical way to choose between S3, EBS, EFS, FSx, DynamoDB, and the other AWS storage options by starting with access patterns, latency, ownership, and failure modes.
Jun 01, 2026 · 17 min read
Building Production-Grade Agentic Systems on AWS
An opinionated guide to shipping AI agents that survive past the demo, covering compute, orchestration, memory, tooling, security, and the architecture choices that separate a weekend prototype from a system your team can trust.
May 29, 2025 · 21 min read