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I’m a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft South Africa, sitting inside the Customer Success Unit out of Johannesburg. My day job is helping large enterprise and regulated customers design Azure platforms that hold up: hybrid landing zones, sovereign and air-gapped deployments, network architectures with serious blast-radius constraints, and Well-Architected Framework reviews when something is already on fire.

Before Microsoft I spent two decades on the customer side of the table — building, breaking, and rebuilding infrastructure for telcos, iGaming, and financial services. That mileage is the reason architectural advice from me tends to come with a strong opinion and a war story attached.

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Hybrid & sovereign Azure Azure Local / Stack HCI vWAN · ExpressRoute · Firewall Private Endpoints & DNS Identity (Entra ID) Landing zones (CAF/ALZ) Well-Architected reviews IaC: Bicep / Terraform GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Observability with Log Analytics & KQL
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Azure Solutions Architect Expert Azure DevOps Engineer Expert Azure Administrator Associate Azure Developer Associate Azure Network Engineer Associate Azure Security Engineer Associate
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Clarity over cleverness. Idempotent automation over heroics. Architecture that respects the operator at 02:00. And a strong preference for solutions you can re-run safely on a Monday morning.

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