DunelmSolutions Architect / Lead (contract)
Jan. 2016 - Feb. 2018London, United KingdomDuring this period, I was engaged with Achica.com part of the business as Lead Solutions Architect to oversee the end to end migration of the company infrastructure from a 3rd party hosting provider to Azure within a stringent 2-month timeline. I led the implementation of Azure / application security, CDN, source control, CI and OneClick deployment, migrated DNS providers, built pre-production environments and reverse-engineered live code. In addition, I consolidated SQL DBs and .Net code base to eliminate legacy code, implemented robust alerting solutions to drive timely mitigating of issues, implemented automated queuing systems to reduce dependency on fragile cross-server SQL jobs and reduced monthly infrastructure costs by 40%.