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🏦 I architect cloud infrastructure that banks trust with millions of transactions. With 10+ years of hands-on experience with Azure, Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform, I design and deploy enterprise-grade platforms that are scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient, specializing in regulated industries such as banking and fintech. What I bring to the table: 🔹 Cloud Architecture at Scale: Designed the complete Azure cloud foundation for a leading UK bank from scratch - 4 environments and Disaster Recovery - within 9 months, supporting 200+ microservices on AKS 🔹 Kubernetes & Service Mesh: Deployed and managed Istio service mesh for 200+ microservices, enabling mTLS, advanced traffic management, and observability 🔹 Security Transformation: Improved Azure Defender for Cloud security posture from 48% → 98% with Zero Trust, policy enforcement, and vulnerability scanning (Trivy, Trufflehog, Checkov, SonarQube, Snyk) 🔹 FinOps & Cost Optimization: Delivered up to 75% cloud cost savings through right-sizing, reserved instances, and automated scaling for various workloads and data components 🔹 Observability & SRE: Implemented end-to-end monitoring with Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Application Insights, OpenTelemetry, and SLI/SLO frameworks 🔹 CI/CD & IaC: Built templated pipeline frameworks in Azure DevOps & GitHub Actions; automated infra provisioning with Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible 📜 9x Certified: CKA, CKS, AZ-305, AZ-400, AZ-500, AZ-700, AZ-104, AWS SAP-C02, SRE Certified professional

Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable cloud platforms across multi-cloud environments. Expertise in Platform Engineering, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud architecture with a strong focus on automation, reliability, security, and developer enablement. Proven track record of delivering production-grade infrastructure, streamlining software delivery and platform engineering workflows, and driving cloud initiatives in fast-paced startup environments.

I am Dennis, a 27-year-old with 12 months of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, and full-stack web development. With a keen eye for design, I excel at creating optimized and automated infrastructures. I am highly goal-oriented and prefer a direct approach to efficiently implement tasks.