William Warley

• - Design and develop scalable Azure cloud architectures and solutions
• - Lead Azure DevOps architecture and pipeline development for CI/CD automation
• - Lead Azure DevOps AI platform Architecture and implementation in CI/CD process
• - Plan and execute cloud migration carve-outs, ensuring minimal disruption
• - Implement governance frameworks, security policies, and compliance standards
• - Create technical playbooks guiding cloud projects, migrations, and service hosting
• - Optimize platform hosting for reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency
• - Develop central AI agent platform for organization use-cases
• - Collaborate with teams for seamless cloud adoption and best practices enforcement

• I've started my own IT consultancy in Switzerland. I specialise on Azure, GCP and AWS with building Kubernetes, serverless event-driven applications, static web-apps build with Python, GO, Node.js and Rust.
• As well I have experience building hotel and factory IT infrastructures from greenfield stage.

• The platform is built with AI in-house, to analyze and execute different options in its investment portfolio.
• Platform was based on a usage of opensource AI LLM like Gemma/Deepseek/Qwen/Mistral.
• Deployed using Ollama on Baremetal hosts with GPU connected with Azure Data lake for data gathering.
• AI was used for predictions in a different use case, while automated bots were in the forefront for data gathering/trading/transaction management.

• Solution mainly based on Azure hyperscaler.

• We were building AI based solution for hospitality to simplify communication with guests, enrich marketing releases and make more pleasant guest experience.
• Solution based on OpenAI API, and Azure OpenAI with using of RAG and finetuning, to be able to manage requests from customers.

• Spearheaded the migration of 1000+ internal projects to Azure Secure Landing Zone (SLZ). Re-engineered IaC with company-wide Terraform modules and automated Azure DevOps (ADS) pipelines, ensuring governance via PowerShell and an enhanced network security.
• Provided hands-on architecture advisory and code refactoring (Java, Python, Terraform, YAML, PowerShell) for seamless SLZ transition.
• Optimized diverse Azure services: AKS, Azure Serverless (Function Apps, App Services), CosmosDB, PostgreSQL, ServiceBus, Redis, and more.

• Architecture, management, and development of cloud and on-premise infrastructures.
• Managing IT area to open of 4 and 5 start big hotels in different countries.
• Migration of large environments and software development for financial institutions using Agile and Scrum frameworks.
• Infrastructure Architecture, Provision, Maintenance
• Support and production team management
• Customer management
• Software development audit
• Product and service invention and implementation
• Certifications implementations and maintenance (ISO 27001, ISO 20000:1, ITIL)
• Project management
• Agile, Scrum
• IaC
• GDPR management and implementation for internal and customer use

• As IT Director I need to manage IT department with connection of various vendors, organise support based on ITILv4 framework. As well sometimes I need to work with VMWare vSphere and Windows Server, Azure AD configuration as well as DaaS solutions.

• Architecture and development of HP Cloud solution based on AWS, Terraform, Azure DevOps and Github.
• Main responsibilities:
• Architect with Dev's k8s based solutions written in Go to manage own cloud environment on the base of AWS, and in perspective Azure and GCP. Idea is to have Go based application which provision infra with HCL (terragunt) and manage it using own web-panel.
• I Architect solution, help infra/development team in various questions, coding.
• Tech stack: AWS, EKS, S3, Azure DevOps, Github, HCL, Terragunt, Yaml, Go, Node.js, Typescript, TOGAF, Azure API

• Architecture and development of infrastructure for ETL Applications based on event-driven java based architecture with springboot.
• Main request was to create AWS serverless environment for ETL java based applications, which would be able to work by schedule, as well as by trigger, with adding some specific flags.
• Configuration of AWS Account IAM security for the application and development team. As well Pipelines for infrastructure and developers for 5 different environments.
• Tech stack: AWS, Cloudformation, Gitlab, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, Step-functions, SQS/SNS, Eventbridge.

• Solution research, and development of the infrastructure for the applications based on micro-services architecture with Kubernetes, based on AWS EKS, Deployment configuration for Postgres-operator (PostgreSQL on Kubernetes), SolrCloud (Apache Elastic Search on Kubernetes), Prometheus monitoring deep dive with configuration and CI/CD.
• Technologies: AWS, S3, RDS, EKS, Kubernetes, Postgres-operator, SolrCloud, Prometheus

• ±700 subscription migration to make it more manageable and in shape.
• My role was to work with the team to create a tool, to provide automatic determine whether the Subscription can be migrated automatically, and then if possible migrated.
• Azure services - Static web app, blob storage, Azure AD, Enterprise application, Azure functions, Azure governance

• May 2021 - December 2021
• German multinational software company based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg
• The goal is to migrate 14000 application servers from on-premise to GCP and Azure cloud providers with great emphasis on automation, high availability and elasticity.
• Refactoring of Apache Spark application for migration to Azure Data-Lake.
• My role is to lead a team of Engineers and Architects to migrate serverless-based applications built with Kubernetes, create network builds, configure security stack. Create cut-over activities, runbooks, TSD's, low-level design and provide GAP analysis.
• Technologies: GCP, GKE, VPC, LB, NAT, Azure LB, VN, NSG, Terraform, JSON, Ansible, Window Server/Linux, Bash, Python, Kubernetes
• March 2021-June 2021
• European multinational aerospace corporation
• The aim is to work with one of the software development departments of the customer, to help them migrate users from Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace using only automation tools. My role was to lead a team to prepare, configure and connect both infrastructures to build up SSO and MFA for authentication and user management. As well it is a customer-facing role with a high necessity of presentation skills.
• Technologies: Azure AD, Microsoft 365, Google One, Google Workspace, GCP
• October 2020 - February 2021
• Major retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom based in London, England
• Project for the largest banks of Scotland. The aim was to build the ETL application to create data-flows from customer relations applications to internal analysis automated applications. My role was to act as an intermediary between business and development teams, as well lead the development team using the agile framework to build the solution
• Technologies: AWS Lambda, S3, Cloudwatch, Dynamo, Python, Node.js, SQL, Bash, Snowflake

• Project goal was to migrate existing infrastructure from on-premise to AWS, using lift and shift, re-base, re-architecture techniques.

• Overview
• Building IT greenfield infrastructure within Azure and Oracle clouds for the new hotel chain
• Successfully oversaw all systems and software operations
• Designed and implemented systems and procedures
• Worked to uphold user needs and the highest level of system functionality possible
• Audited systems and assessed overall performance
• Assisted with establishing budgets to honor company goals
• Recommended software that fulfilled operational needs
• Technologies:
• Microsoft Azure, Oracle, Company policy

Provided comprehensive user support and system administration for a company's back-end development environments.

Configured and provisioned operating system images using Microsoft SCCM, streamlining deployment processes.

Played a key role in developing and presenting a company-wide security policy, demonstrating an understanding of security principles.

Managed software repositories and implemented Microsoft Project 2007 for efficient time tracking.

User Support & System Administration: Demonstrates a customer-centric approach, and technical troubleshooting skills.

• Deployment Automation: Expertise in using SCCM for streamlining OS image management.

• Security Awareness: Contributed to security policy development, showing attention to best practices.

• Project Management Support: Experience in implementing and managing project tracking software.

• Client desktop and server (Microsoft environment) installation and maintenance.
• Approximate 250 desktop clients, 30 Microsoft servers.
• Simple network configuration (only A-rings)