Cloud AI Solutions Administrator · Toronto, Canada
I help organizations design, automate and operate Azure environments that are secure, cost aware and genuinely reliable, with Terraform, DevOps and honest engineering discipline.
“Good cloud engineering isn’t about tools. It’s about understanding the system and building something people can operate with confidence.”
I work with clarity in mind. No jargon walls, no over engineering. Just infrastructure that fits the team, the budget, and the goal.
What I do
Every engagement starts with the system as it actually is, not a reference architecture. Here is where most of the work lives.
Azure environments designed for reliability and scale, provisioned as code and built to grow with the business.
CI/CD pipelines and scripting that turn repeatable work into deployments engineers can trust and audit.
Observability across the stack, with cost and performance tuned deliberately, never left to chance.
Guardrails that let teams move quickly without giving up compliance, identity, or operational safety.
Certifications
Recognitions across cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, networking, and enterprise systems. Earned, not claimed.
How I work
I review the current cloud footprint, pipelines and priorities. Where things are working, where they aren't, and what the business actually needs next.
I map a target architecture with Terraform first IaC, sensible governance, and a delivery plan sized to the team, not a slide deck.
Landing zones, pipelines and monitoring go in with proper handover. Documented, reviewed, and tuned as the environment matures.
Experience
Extendicare
Leading cloud infrastructure initiatives and implementing automation to drive organizational efficiency and scalability.
Hatch
Automated Azure infrastructure with Terraform, managed IaaS and PaaS and RBAC, optimized CI/CD in Azure DevOps, and monitored performance with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and KQL.
Hatch
On premises and cloud identity across AD, Entra ID and SAP. SCCM, Intune, LAPS and Group Policy. Defender, O365, Exchange, and A/V for Teams Live events.
DependableIT
Technical support for Cogeco residential and commercial users, including modem configuration, email and Outlook setup, Wi-Fi optimization, and VoIP services.
Apple
Advanced iOS and macOS support, account and billing resolution, and mentoring within the technical support team.
About me
focused on governance and automation.
My path into cloud engineering began with the fundamentals. A bachelor’s in Physics at Union Christian College taught me to break systems down to first principles, and a postgraduate program in Wireless Networking at Lambton College sharpened that thinking around real infrastructure.
Before that, I worked in frontline tech support at Apple, which taught me how to listen to people, diagnose problems quickly, and stay calm under pressure. My actual IT career started with an internship as a Junior IT Consultant, where I got my first real exposure to supporting hybrid environments, a mix of on premises and cloud systems.
From there I joined Hatch as an Azure Administrator, taking ownership of production infrastructure for the Canadian side of a global team and managing it end to end. That role pushed me from identity and endpoint work into deeper platform ownership, modernizing how we managed infrastructure as code, and building automation that turned slow, manual processes into things that ran in minutes instead of hours.
Today I’m a Cloud Solutions Engineer at Extendicare, where I design cloud environments for secure migrations and acquisitions and build the governance that keeps a growing environment secure, well organized, and cost aware. My work has also stretched into newer territory; AI infrastructure, modern data platforms, identity across a mixed set of systems — which tends to be where I land: the newest, least defined problems, before anyone’s figured out how they should work.
Governance and cost control are the parts of the job I keep gravitating toward, and it’s the direction I want to take my career next moving from managing cost as one piece of governance to specializing in FinOps directly.
I care about the fundamentals: clear architecture, honest documentation, and governance that actually holds up. I’m most useful on teams that want to move fast without cutting corners on reliability or cost.
Let’s work together
Open to Cloud Engineer, Azure Architect and DevOps roles, and to collaborating on cloud initiatives that need thoughtful engineering.