Oana Alvadane
Azure Cloud & AI Solution Architect | Consultant |
Salary / Daily rate
Brussels, Belgium
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
I am an Azure Cloud and AI Solution Architect with 11+ years in IT and 6+ years designing secure Azure platforms in regulated environments across public sector, banking, and healthcare. My current focus is the design and delivery of production-ready GenAI and RAG solutions on Azure, combining Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Foundry, secure cloud architecture, DevOps, monitoring, and governance.
Work experience
Azure Cloud & DevOps Consultant
Freelance
Apr 2023 - Present
3 years 7 months
Brussels, Belgium
Led infrastructure deployment using Bicep, Terraform, and AVM within Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines: architected the landing zone from scratch, proposed and implemented a scalable and secure infrastructure foundation, and delivered a complex cloud-native solution tailored to evolving project needs • Built and improved secure landing zones, applying governance and automation best practices • Actively contributed to cloud architecture and solution design for strategic implementations involving virtual desktops, APIs, and secure infrastructure • Helped define project scope and delivery approach in a greenfield setup; laid the technical foundation and supported early team structuring • Recruited and onboarded new engineers; served as a key technical reference for team growth and knowledge transfer • Mentored junior colleagues, improving delivery pace and increasing autonomy across the team • Facilitated cross-team collaboration in a distributed and shifting environment, maintaining focus on delivery quality under pressure
IBM
Jun 2019 - May 2023
4 years
Brussels, Belgium
Azure Cloud Engineer
Apr 2020 - May 2023
3 years 2 months
Brussels, Belgium
Development of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) components Implementation of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Cloud Implementations Hands on experience in networking resources, such as Virtual machines, Virtual Networks, Azure AD, Azure Sentinel... Deployment of Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template and PowerShell Development and implementation of new solutions using PowerShell and ARM template
Consultant - Application Developer: DevOps
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
10 months
Brussels, Belgium
Altran Benelux
May 2014 - Dec 2017
3 years 8 months
Brussels Area, Belgium
Consultant
May 2014 - Dec 2017
3 years 8 months
Brussels Area, Belgium
Java Developer
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
2 years 3 months
Brussels Area, Belgium
Analyzing and estimating new tickets Development – new features and fixing bugs for the reported issues Software testing : define test cases and execute automated tests
IT Business Analyst
Proximus
Aug 2014 - Jul 2015
1 year
Brussels Area, Belgium
Gather requirements Functional analysis : define functional specifications to allow the development by the technical team, define functional design (use cases) and mock-ups Testing: prepare and execute test cases for the functionalities which are implemented Ensure follow-up of Incident and provide analysis for problems Support the technical design : ensure good understanding of the functional design by the technical team
Statistician Intern
Parfums Christian Dior
Jul 2012 - Dec 2012
6 months
Paris Area, France
SQL report developer Cross-selling score development Data cleansing Sampling Variables analysis (qualitative and quantitative) Correlation of the variables Variable discretization Construction of the model (logistic regression) Score validation
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz
Atlantis Exchange Program
2012 - 2012
1 year
Université d'Orléans
Master’s Degree
2010 - 2012
3 years