Available for new engagements
Independent Azure Cloud Architect. I work with IT leadership in banking, insurance and large enterprises to design, industrialise and secure their platforms, from landing zone to AI services in regulated environments.
Services
Every engagement starts from something concrete: an architecture to frame, an AI platform to expose without leaking data, a deployment to automate, a bill to bring under control, or an exposure to reduce.
Expose AI models to your teams with no compromise on data sovereignty, traceability or cost control, including inside regulated banking environments.
Target architectures aligned with the Cloud Adoption Framework and the Well-Architected Framework. Foundations laid before the first resource.
Infrastructure becomes a versioned, reviewed, repeatable deliverable. No more manual configuration that nobody can reproduce.
Reduce the attack surface and make compliance demonstrable, including NIS and financial services contexts, without slowing your delivery teams down.
Understand the bill before cutting it. Consumption analysis first, then actions ranked by saving and by effort.
Method
No multi-month tunnel before the first deliverable. We move in short stages, each one ending with something usable.
A 30 minute conversation to understand the context, the regulatory constraints and the real objective. Outcome: a clear scope and an honest estimate.
Documented target architecture (HLD, LLD, diagrams), reasoned technical choices and explicit trade-offs between cost, security and operational complexity.
Implementation as Infrastructure as Code, joint review and iteration based on what actually runs in your own subscription.
Documentation, runbooks and training for your teams. I am also a Microsoft Certified Trainer. The goal is your autonomy, not your dependency.
Experience
Private banking, insurance, air transport: contexts where an architecture mistake is expensive and where compliance is not negotiable.
Dec 2024 to Jul 2026
Rothschild & Co · Freelance · Paris
Built a shared central AI hub at group level (private endpoints, APIOps). Delivered the organisation's first production MCP server, running on AKS behind Application Gateway and APIM. Designed the AI Gateway for Azure AI Foundry and an automated code review pipeline, under EU data sovereignty constraints.
Jan 2024 to Jan 2025
Groupama · Freelance · Paris
Created the Cloud Center of Competence and Excellence: selected the cloud solution provider and laid the first architecture pillars.
Sep 2023 to Jan 2025
SharkAtlas · Freelance
Designed an application to revalue insurance assets: retrieval augmented generation, document reading through Google Vision AI, prompt engineering, vector search with GPT-4o, chunking optimisation and a FastAPI service.
Apr 2022 to Feb 2024
Amadeus · Freelance · Nice
Technical referent in an IBEX 35 environment. Security landing zone, AKS, Container Registry and Key Vault deployed through GitHub Actions. Azure Lighthouse to onboard customer subscriptions, Managed Applications with Marketplace bootstrap, and KQL alerting forwarded to ServiceNow.
Feb 2012 to Apr 2022
AG2R LA MONDIALE · Permanent
Ten years building the Azure platform of an operator of essential services (NIS): governance and Enterprise Agreement, hub and spoke topology, VPN and ExpressRoute, ADFS, MFA and conditional access, FinOps, BCDR strategy, Azure ML and Synapse, Kubernetes, HPC, plus deployment and administration of CyberArk PAM.
Expertise
Certifications
31 Microsoft exams passed since 2021. The credentials below are currently valid.
Also passed along the way: AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer Expert), AZ-500 (Security Engineer), AZ-700 (Network Engineer), AZ-204 (Developer), AZ-140, AZ-120, AZ-600, AI-102, DP-203, SC-200, MS-500 and the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 track. These Associate and Expert credentials renew annually and are no longer maintained, the focus being Azure architecture and AI.
Book a meeting
One slot, one conversation, no commitment. Describe your context and I will tell you frankly whether I am the right person, and if not, who to talk to.