Senior Leadership for Cloud Migration, Cloud Exit, and Complex Infrastructure Change.
Cloud Migration Consulting
Cloud migrations fail when the plan is designed for slides, not for execution. I build migration plans that survive contact with real teams, real deadlines, and real constraints – for enterprises and growing SMBs.
Learn moreCloud Exit Consulting
Cloud was supposed to reduce costs. If it hasn’t – that is a solvable problem. One of the few consultants with no financial incentive to keep you in the cloud, and direct experience exiting proprietary clouds most architects have never touched.
Learn moreOperating Partner
Partner-level involvement – not advisory, not staff augmentation. Real accountability for outcomes, as Fractional CTO, Managing Partner, or Technical Co-Founder. Limited availability, assessed carefully for fit.
Learn moreSenior Delivery Team
When a cloud programme needs more than one senior leader to execute. A curated senior squad – selected for your specific scope, not pooled from generic staffing – scalable through my own team and vetted partner companies.
Learn moreBrands, I worked with
Examples of organizations and brands I’ve supported across migration, architecture, and delivery.
Track record
The engagements that are hardest to fake
Verifiable proof from clients, institutional references, and situations most consultants never encounter.
🚨 Wartime banking migration · Feb 2022
Led the emergency Cloud migration of a Core Banking Platform – two days after the invasion began
Joined Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine as Technical Lead of a Core Banking Platform on 22 February 2022. The planned modernisation programme became irrelevant in 72 hours. Led the emergency migration of critical banking infrastructure under active missile alerts – with a legal barrier waived by emergency central bank order. Zero business outages throughout.
Referenced by McKinsey, AWS, and Euromoney as a globally significant case in emergency infrastructure leadership.
✅ Zero production outages – across every migration
A track record that holds across 1.5-year enterprise programmes and 6-week emergency timelines alike
Three data centres to AWS for one of the world’s largest real estate technology companies – undocumented infrastructure, 1.5 years, zero outages. Orange Cloud to AWS for a major French enterprise – proprietary platform, no prior tooling, six months, zero incidents. Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine – wartime conditions, zero business disruption. Consistent regardless of operating environment.
Programmes across France, Ukraine, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
🏢 CTO · Head of Engineering · UK
Leading transformation of an international IT outsourcing company into an AI-driven engineering organisation
Took full responsibility as CTO and Head of Engineering at a UK-headquartered international IT outsourcing company with engineering teams across multiple countries. Mandate covers the full transformation scope: introducing AI-driven development practices across the entire engineering organisation, establishing new delivery processes and quality standards, guiding the company through compliance certification, and actively growing the client portfolio in banking and finance, healthcare, miltech, and broader enterprise sectors.
AI-driven transformation · Banking · Healthcare · Miltech
🎓 Faculty alongside EPAM’s CEO and Vice-Presidents
Adjunct Professor – joint Master’s programme, EPAM × Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (est. 1615)
Designed and delivered the Cloud & DevOps module for a joint Master’s programme between EPAM Systems and the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Faculty colleagues included EPAM’s CEO and Vice-Presidents. The student cohort required 2+ years of engineering experience to enrol – making every session a technical peer discussion grounded in production reality.
Being selected for this faculty is external peer validation of technical depth by the people who know what good looks like.
Common situations
Does any of this sound familiar?
These are the situations I work in most often – not the clean, well-documented ones, but the ones where something has gone wrong or is about to.
Let’s discuss your situation →The migration plan exists but keeps stalling – the first phase completed, then everything else stopped
Cloud costs have grown far beyond the original business case, and nobody can fully explain why
The infrastructure is undocumented – you don’t actually know what you’re migrating or what it depends on
A regulatory deadline is forcing an architectural decision and getting it wrong is irreversible
You need to exit a cloud provider but have no playbook for the specific platform you’re on
You need senior technology leadership, but not the 6-month hiring timeline of a permanent CTO
What underpins the work
Cloud migration is the visible outcome. Here is what actually enables it.
The ability to complete a complex infrastructure programme is not just a technical skill. It is an organisational and strategic capability built over 20+ years of real delivery under real constraints.
Leading large cross-functional teams across multiple geographies
Cloud programmes require alignment across engineering, security, operations, finance, and compliance simultaneously. I have led teams of 30+ across four continents — USA, Brazil, EU, and India – coordinating work across time zones, cultures, and organisational boundaries at the same time.
→ SRE teams across 4 continents · Amway global retail platform
C-level and Board communication – technology into business language
Boards and C-suites make infrastructure decisions in business language. I translate architecture risk, migration timelines, and cost models into business continuity, regulatory exposure, and multi-year investment — and back again. Architecture Board participation and direct C-level engagement across all major engagements.
→ Architecture Board member + Team Lead · Aviv Group 3-DC programme
Strategic decision-making under genuine pressure – not simulated urgency
Most consultants have never made a decision where the consequence of error is measured in regulatory penalty or national news coverage. I have led programmes where the operating environment became hostile in real time and the decisions still had to be made correctly. That experience changes how risk is assessed at every subsequent engagement.
→ Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine – decisions under active wartime conditions
Building organisations from zero – not just managing them
I have built organisations that didn’t exist: led the full transformation of an international IT outsourcing company as CTO and Head of Engineering, a company that became the dominant CRM provider in Ukraine with 60%+ market share, a privacy startup from blank page to 20,000+ users, and a national e-commerce industry association that shaped regulatory policy years before the legal framework existed.
→ CTO & Head of Engineering · Adelite/A1 CEO · Privatoria co-founder · e-Commerce Association Ukraine
Regulatory and compliance architecture – built in, not bolted on
DORA, NIS2, HIPAA, SOC-2, GxP, and banking regulatory frameworks – the compliance requirement is almost always what makes a cloud migration harder than the technical work. I have designed and implemented compliant architectures across all of these, in environments where audit failure was a programme-ending risk.
→ Pharma CRM US market entry: SOC-2 + HIPAA + GxP · DORA: Tier-1 Spanish bank
AI-driven delivery – using it in practice, not just advising about it
AI-accelerated infrastructure discovery, dependency mapping, financial TCO modelling, compliance documentation generation, and post-migration monitoring – embedded in how I work, not described as a future capability. Stanford University Machine Learning Specialization. AI for Business Specialization (Wharton). Published in CloudTweaks.
→ Published in CloudTweaks · Stanford ML · Wharton AI for Business · MSc AI foundations 1995
How I work
Three ways to engage – one starting point
The right engagement format depends on your situation. All of them start with a direct 30-minute conversation.
01 · ARCHITECT & DELIVER
Independent Senior Architect
I own the architecture and stay through delivery – not just through the planning phase. For cloud migration, cloud exit, and complex infrastructure change.
- Current-state assessment and target architecture
- Migration or exit plan built for real execution
- Security, compliance, and FinOps built in from day one
- Technical Lead through delivery – not advisory only
02 · LEAD & OWN
Fractional CTO · Operating Partner
Partner-level senior leadership for companies in transformation, recovery, or growth – where a consultant’s distance from the decision is the problem.
- Fractional CTO – senior tech leadership without a full-time hire
- Operating Partner for complex transformations
- Technical Co-Founder for new ventures
- Board Advisor – technology oversight at governance level
03 · TEAM & SCALE
Senior Delivery Team
A curated senior squad for programmes that need more than one senior leader – selected for scope, scalable via my own team and vetted partner network.
- Embedded or managed squad model
- Cloud Architect, DevOps/SRE, Security, Migration Lead, DBA
- Scalable via own team + vetted partner companies
- Operational in weeks – domain knowledge already in place
Enterprise and SMB. From a strategic assessment for a fast-growing business with runaway cloud costs to leading a full enterprise infrastructure transformation – the engagement format is matched to what the situation actually requires.
Let’s talk
Ready to talk about your situation?
In 30 minutes I can tell you whether your situation maps to what I do – what the real risks are, and what a first engagement looks like. Enterprise and SMB equally welcome.
No sales pitch. No template proposal. A direct conversation, and an honest answer about whether I am the right fit.