Paul Florea

cloud architecture · migration · resilience · finops

I help growing businesses make better cloud decisions, implement them properly, and prove the value afterwards.

Founder & chief architect, CloudRally

what i do.

Architecture reviews

A Well-Architected review, with each finding ranked by cost.

Migrations

Data centre exits and consolidation between clouds, modernized.

Foundations

Landing zones and Kubernetes platforms, as infrastructure code that you own.

Cost work

Rightsizing, commitments, storage tiering, and observability spend.

Fractional architect

An architect on call, by the month.

where i've been.

2026 to now

Founder & chief architect, CloudRally

Scoped, fixed fee cloud architecture for startups and SMBs.

2025 to 2026

Principal cloud architect, OpsGuru

Lead architect on the hardest engagements. Owned scoping and SOWs, and line managed the team.

2023 to 2025

Cloud solutions architect, OpsGuru

50+ engagements across fintech, healthcare, public sector and SaaS.

2020 to 2023

DevOps lead & interim CISO, ThinkData Works

Built the SOC 2 infrastructure and controls. Cut release time 80%.

2019 to 2020

Operations engineer, ThinkData Works

Kubernetes and GCP behind the enterprise platform.

2015 to 2018

Full stack developer, Autocase

Concept web app to SaaS suite, on an architecture I championed and built.

2013 to 2014

Application developer, 407 ETR

Rules engine test automation and ETL between DB2 and Oracle.

what i work with.

Cloud
AWS · Azure · Google Cloud
As code
Terraform · Terragrunt · Helm · ArgoCD · GitHub Actions
Compute
Kubernetes on EKS, AKS, GKE · Fargate · Lambda
Data
RDS/Aurora · PostgreSQL · MongoDB Atlas · Kafka
Watching
Datadog · Grafana · OpenTelemetry · GuardDuty
Certified
AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, 2026
Studied
HBSc Computer Science, University of Toronto
Spoken
English, Romanian

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