It Consultant
Cloud Architect
DevOps Expert
Andrea De Rinaldis
Accelerating Scale, Cutting Cloud Spend, and Ensure Engineering Stability.
I am a highly reliable professional with 30+ years of 360° IT experience committed to delivering precise results.
I specialise in working with high-growth organisations, leveraging my expertise to tackle complex, fast-moving challenges.
As a Cloud Architect and DevOps Expert, I work across all architectural layers, designing resilient, secure cloud ecosystems from the ground up.
I don't just implement: I embed an agile, ownership-driven DevOps culture that empowers your internal teams for sustained success and continuous improvement.
I am constantly focused on new technologies to ensure your platform remains future-proof.
I am looking forward to tackling the next challenge!
Thoroughly understand the needs and goals. Analyse existing systems and processes. Rapidly identify technical debt and growth blockers. Document and prioritise requirements.
Develop a detailed project plan. Create a high-level design of the proposed solution. Identify potential risks and mitigation strategies. Build cost and governance into the design, not an afterthought
Execute the project plan. Conduct regular progress meetings. Enhance speed and iterative delivery alongside the client's team. Perform quality assurance and testing.
Provide training, documentation and knowledge transfer. Establish a support and maintenance plan. Empower the client's team to eventually own the platform, not create dependency.
Assist organisations in moving their existing applications, data, and infrastructure from on-premises environments to any of the major cloud platforms.
Implement and manage cloud resources using code to automate infrastructure provisioning, ensuring consistency and reducing manual errors.
Remove configuration drift.
Reduce environment deployment time to minutes.
Design and set up continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines to automate software delivery processes, zero-downtime deployments and huge reduction in rollout failure rate.
Implement and manage containerised applications using platforms like Kubernetes or OpenShift, enabling better resource utilization, cost efficiency, and handling massive, unpredictable user growth.
Develop and implement security best practices for cloud environments, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance with industry standards (e.g., HIPAA, PCI-DSS).
Analyse and optimise cloud resource usage, application performance, and costs, ensuring efficient utilisation of cloud services and identifying areas for improvement.
