Arthur Clares
Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolArthur Clares is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft based in Lisbon, bringing over a decade of hands-on IT and cloud experience and six years focused on customer-facing cloud roles. He architects reliable, scalable, and cost-optimized Azure solutions that connect technical design to business outcomes, while managing complex cross-functional projects and unifying cost and resource data into actionable insights. His background spans support and engineering roles at VMware and early IT positions, giving him deep operational empathy for post-deployment reliability and automation. Regularly mentoring teams and speaking at events, he blends technical leadership with practical tooling—building automation that accelerates cloud adoption and data-driven decision making. Notably, he combines enterprise consulting at Microsoft with a troubleshooting-first mindset rooted in his technical support origins.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico em Programação, Técnico em Programação at Colégio PentagonoNetwork Analyst, Network Analyst at Faculdade Impacta de Tecnlogia
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (13)
azure-monitor10
extensible10
azure10
cost-management10
iaas10
microsoft-azure10
monitor10
microsoft10
scalable10
optimization10
analytics9
sap9
azure-monitor-workbooks9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arthurclares/costbestpractices
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 29 PRs, 56 pushes in 4 months
arthurclares/finops-toolkit
Jun 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 63 pushes, 10 branches in 4 months
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