Summary
Brendan Griffin is a Cloud Architect with 11 years of enterprise IT experience and a track record of delivering solution architecture, pre-sales engagement, and operational improvements across Microsoft, AWS, GCP, and Oracle clouds. He has driven technical excellence at scale—shaping repeatable IP and delivery practices at Microsoft, leading solution design for public and private sector customers, and now advising Oracle customers on cloud strategy. Known for customer obsession and mentoring aspiring architects, he balances hands-on engineering with strategic thinking to turn complex business needs into pragmatic, repeatable solutions. His background spans deep support and consultancy roots through to senior architecture roles, giving him a rare perspective on both reactive incident response and proactive productised services. Based in Hull, England, he tinkers with tech in his spare time and brings a practical, curious mindset informed by retro gaming and long-distance running.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
FdSc, Information Communication Enabling Technologies, FdSc, Information Communication Enabling Technologies at University of Lincoln