Advice. Not sales.

About

I'm Ronan. In short - a cloud technology consultant, with a broad range of experience and aptitude. I help organisations ship and run critical platforms with clear decision-making, sensible scope, and delivery that stands up in the real world.

My edge is technical communication: translating business need into technical requirements, then turning that into plans, controls, and outcomes teams can deliver. I make risk, opportunity, and trade-offs legible for execs.

I work across Azure and AWS with a bias for IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu), GitOps and CI/CD, and pragmatic monitoring (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk). I also coach teams: training juniors, lifting delivery maturity, and keeping stakeholders aligned.

Skills

Technologies

  • Copilot, Agentic Coding, LLM system deployment
  • Infrastructure management, Data security
  • Terraform, Bash, PowerShell
  • Python, JavaScript
  • GitOps, CI/CD Pipelines
  • AWS and Azure IaC deployments
  • Grafana, Datadog
  • Azure Entra ID, Cloud Networking
  • Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
  • Svelte

Project Management

  • Staff coordination and workload balancing; training junior staff
  • QA of contracted deliverables; service delivery management
  • Scope tracking and target alignment; client concern arbitration
  • Facilitating collaboration across stakeholders and teams
  • Expectation management and communication

Experience

Mantel Group

Senior Site Reliability Engineer | August 2022 – current

  • Built automated Tableau Cluster solution accelerator for reuse
  • Managed junior staff and workload to meet SLAs
  • Retrofit Azure DevOps pipelines with security and environments
  • Stakeholder management and workflow coordination
  • Deployed complex multi-cloud environments for resilience

Dialog IT

Azure Infrastructure Consultant | January 2022 – August 2022

  • Planned and executed SharePoint 2013 → SharePoint Online migration
  • Documented legacy environments and complex custom code
  • Structured migration plan and cutover to minimise downtime
  • Developed PowerShell modules for logging migrations
  • Verified data integrity pre/post migration

Avanade Australia

Senior Infrastructure Analyst | February 2019 – January 2022

  • Security incident response; application development management
  • Ransomware recovery; Intune and Endpoint Manager design
  • VMware server reviews; patch and GPO management
  • Splunk monitoring; Ansible playbooks
  • PoCs and presentations; PHP, Terraform, Azure, AD, Linux