Senior Cloud Architect + Team Lead
Managing a team of 10 Cloud professionals. Acting as the senior technical advisor and architect for enterprise clients, including a major Finnish oil & gas corporation and a pharmaceutical company.
I'm Talha Khalid
I'm a Helsinki based Google and Azure Cloud Architect, currently working at Nordcloud - an IBM Company helping customers navigate their complex cloud environment.
In my free time, you can catch me jogging in Finnish Nature, socializing with Friends, or hiking in the Mountains.
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About me
I am a highly accomplished and certified IT professional with an extensive background in Automation and Cloud computing. I hold a Master's degree in Automation and Electrical Engineering, and am professionally certified by Google and Microsoft in Cloud Technology.
- Location
- Helsinki, FI
- Interests
- Hiking, Jogging, Socializing
- Study
- Aalto University
- Employment
- Nordcloud - an IBM Company.
Work
Teaching Assistant
Guided students through software engineering concepts and technical problem solving.
Mechanical Design Engineer
Designed and delivered 4 working technical prototypes for a medical device project. Demonstrated strong systems design and rapid troubleshooting skills.
Education
M.Sc. Automation Engineering
Major: Control, Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Thesis: Compliance assessment of Google Cloud Kubernetes clusters using Kubernetes Compliance Evaluation Matrix
B.Eng. Automation Engineering
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
This was a double degree program organized by Häme University
Skills
Certifications
- Google Cloud - Professional Cloud Architect
- Google Cloud - Cloud Digital Leader
- Google Cloud - Generative AI Leader
- Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
- Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamental (AZ-900)
- Microsoft Certified Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- AWS - Migration Ambassador Foundation
- Terraform Associate 002
Spoken languages
- English
10/10 Native- Urdu
10/10 Native- Finnish
6/10 Intermediate- German
2/10 Basic
Tech Skills
- GCP (GKE, SCC), Azure (AKS, Azure Defender)
- Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Cloud Build, Azure DevOps
- PowerShell, Python
- Identity & Access Management, Audit logging, Azure Policy, Cost control, Resource hygiene
- Comfortable driving stakeholder discussions, mentoring engineers, preparing technical documentations
Some snippets from my Life
Awards
Public Speaking
FAUG
Speaker at Finland Azure User Group. Presented technical cloud concepts and automation strategies to a broad audience of cloud professionals.
Recognition award
Nordcloud - an IBM Company
Acknowledged by leadership for contributing automation pipelines that significantly improved internal delivery workflows.
Performance award
Nordcloud - an IBM Company
Received for consistently exceeding expectations and delivering high impact results in a client-facing role.
Testimonials
Very professional and quick response time in handling the setup and configuration of Google Cloud DNS API. The process was thoroughly documented and went over and beyond by offering security best practices.
Shining star of our team. Absolute fantastic contributor to all of the streams
Really good at scripting. Helped us reduced our cloud costs by 30,000 eur/month
Excellent work delivered in configuring Azure Defender for Cloud, and creating interactive dashboards
Very knowledgeable in Kubernetes related issues. Helped us configure auto scaling GKE Clusters with separate node pools
Get in touch
You can reach out to me via the following email
talhak.ytk@gmail.com Helsinki, Finland taaalha on GitHub