Principal Azure platform engineer and architect in London. 20+ years across .NET and cloud, specialising in AKS, API Management, private networking, Entra ID, and Terraform. Current focus: AI platform architecture on Azure.
mcp-platform-azure, in public: enterprise hosting and governance for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on Azure. APIM as the AI gateway, Entra ID authorization, private networking, API Center as the registry, Terraform throughout. Status: v1 in progress.
- Azure platform engineering: AKS design and networking (Azure CNI, NetworkPolicy), APIM, Application Gateway, hub-spoke and private endpoint architectures
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform (azurerm and azapi), Bicep, policy as code
- Identity and security: Entra ID, managed identity, OBO flows, secure-by-default provisioning
- .NET distributed systems: Service Bus, event-driven services, high-throughput APIs (12k req/s at ASOS)
- Observability and operations: Azure Monitor, App Insights, KQL, alerting, runbooks