Aquila Sands
Lead CloudOps Engineer at KPMG UK
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAquila Sands is a Lead CloudOps Engineer based in Newcastle upon Tyne with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native and Microsoft-centric solutions. He combines deep .NET and SharePoint roots with modern DevOps practices across Azure, Azure DevOps, Git, and infrastructure automation to deliver reliable, scalable platforms for enterprise clients. At KPMG he progressed from DevOps Architect to Lead CloudOps Engineer, reflecting a strong blend of hands-on engineering and architectural leadership. Aquila's background spans product development and consultancy across healthcare, energy, and professional services, giving him a pragmatic approach to solving domain-specific operational challenges. He emphasizes clean design principles (SOLID, DRY) and pragmatic SQL/NoSQL data work alongside TypeScript-driven web APIs. Colleagues know him for bridging legacy Microsoft ecosystems into automated cloud workflows while keeping delivery fast and auditable.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Northumbria University
Stackoverflow
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48answers
3questions
sharepoint
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Github Skills (73)
dotnet10
csharp10
archived10
linux9
microsoft-graph-api9
azure9
intune9
asp-net-core9
windows9
asp-net9
arm9
sharepoint9
dotnet-core9
arm-templates9
cross-platform9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AquilaSands/json-to-azure-app-settings
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Quick'n'dirty console app to convert .net core appsettings.json file to Azure Web App portal configuration advanced edit format so it can be copy pasted
Contributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
console-appdotnetjson-fileconfiguration-portalconsole
AquilaSands/TrainingContent
Feb 2015 - Apr 2022
Training Content used for Microsoft Virtual Academy
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 years 3 months
microsoft-virtual-academytrainingmicrosoft
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