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"Great architecture isn't about stacking services — it's about designing systems that outlive the hype cycle."
I'm a Cloud Solution Architect with deep, vertical expertise in infrastructure, system design, and digital transformation. My job is to draw the blueprints, choose the right patterns, write the ADRs, set the guardrails — and then drive their adoption across the organization. I translate business intent into target architectures that are secure, scalable, observable, and cost-aware by design.
I architect large-scale GCP organizations spanning hundreds of projects across multiple environments, regions, and business units. My focus is vertical depth on infrastructure: from the lowest networking layers (BGP, Interconnect, Shared VPC, DNS) up through compute, Kubernetes orchestration, identity, and the platform services that sit on top.
As a cloud evangelist, I don't just design systems — I drive the cultural shift. I help organizations move from ticket-driven ops to API-driven infrastructure, from snowflake servers to immutable platforms, from on-prem inertia to a cloud-native mindset.
- 🏙️ Based in Montreal 🇨🇦, operating across Montreal & Paris 🇫🇷 time zones
- 🏛️ Architect first — HLDs, LLDs, ADRs, reference architectures, decision trees
- ☁️ GCP expert — 10+ years designing landing zones, Shared VPC hub-and-spoke topologies, IAM at scale
- 🐳 Kubernetes architect — GKE Standard & Autopilot, multi-cluster, service mesh, policy-as-code
- 🔄 Cloud evangelist — driving the cultural and technical shift from on-prem to cloud-native
- 🚚 Experienced in Move-to-Cloud (M2C) programmes — migrating full on-prem datacenters to GCP
- 🐕 Proud parent of Elvis 🐶, a tiny Chihuahua with a big attitude
- 🏀 NBA fan since the 80s — basketball and distributed systems share the same philosophy: great teamwork wins
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ARCHITECTURE LAYERS │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 🧭 STRATEGY │ Cloud strategy, target architectures, │
│ │ ADRs, HLDs, reference patterns │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 🏛️ LANDING ZONE │ Org policies, IAM model, folder │
│ │ hierarchy, guardrails, tenancy │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 🌐 NETWORK │ Shared VPC, hub-and-spoke, Interconnect,│
│ │ PSC, Cloud DNS, firewall as code │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 💻 COMPUTE │ GCE, Cloud Run, golden images, M2C │
│ │ migrations, capacity planning │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ☸️ KUBERNETES │ GKE Standard & Autopilot, multi-cluster,│
│ │ Workload Identity, service mesh, OPA │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 🚀 DELIVERY │ GitOps, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, IaC, │
│ │ progressive delivery patterns │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 👁️ OBSERVABILITY │ SLOs, Dynatrace, Cloud Monitoring, │
│ │ structured logging, runbooks │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 💰 FINOPS │ CUDs, slot reservations, cost │
│ │ attribution, optimization tooling │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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kind: Expertise
metadata:
name: ben-cloud-architect
role: Cloud Solution Architect
location: Montreal, QC 🇨🇦
spec:
system_design:
- Target architectures & reference patterns
- HLDs, LLDs, ADRs, decision trees
- Architecture reviews & technical governance
- Design at organization scale (hundreds of projects)
gcp:
- Landing zones, Org Policies, IAM, PAM, folders
- Shared VPC, hub-and-spoke, Interconnect, PSC
- GKE (Standard & Autopilot), Cloud Run, GCE
- Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud NAT, Cloud DNS
- BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Backup & DR
- Apigee API Gateway
kubernetes_architecture:
- Multi-cluster & multi-tenant designs
- Network Policies, Istio service mesh
- Mutating Webhooks, Policy Controller, OPA
- GitOps with ArgoCD, progressive delivery
- Workload Identity, RBAC, supply chain security
iac:
- Terraform advanced patterns (dynamic blocks,
for_each, locals, custom modules)
- Cross-environment IaC at scale
- Reusable architecture modules
finops:
- CUD / Committed Use Discount strategy
- BigQuery slot analysis & reservations
- Cost attribution across hundreds of projects
- Custom FinOps tooling in Python
digital_transformation:
- On-prem → GCP datacenter migrations (M2C)
- Legacy modernization & decommissioning
- Cloud adoption frameworks
- Cloud advocacy, enablement & evangelism┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ DESIGN PRINCIPLES │
├──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────┤
│ RELIABILITY │ SECURITY │ SCALABILITY │ FINOPS │
│ │ │ │ │
│ SLO-driven │ Zero-trust │ Auto-scale │ Cost-aware │
│ GitOps │ Policy-as- │ Multi- │ by design │
│ by default │ code (OPA) │ cluster │ CUD + slots │
│ DR tested │ Wiz posture │ GKE Auto- │ attribution │
│ runbooks │ management │ pilot ready │ per project │
└──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴───────────────┘
Infrastructure should be invisible, scalable, and boring — in the best way possible.
🇫🇷 French — Native
🇬🇧 English — Fluent
☁️ YAML / HCL / Python — Also fluent
"Any sufficiently advanced infrastructure is indistinguishable from magic — until it's Terraformed."