Sophie Chanialaki
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at Climeworks
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSophie Chanialaki is a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect based in Zurich with a decade of experience designing, securing, and optimizing Azure and Microsoft 365 platforms for enterprise and public-sector customers. She blends hands-on engineering—IaC, PowerShell automation, and zero-trust controls—with cross-functional leadership to reduce downtime, accelerate deployments, and cut cloud spend (notably achieving a 30% monthly cost reduction at Climeworks). Sophie has a strong Microsoft pedigree from multiple roles at Microsoft, where she led large-scale migrations, partner enablement, and regional developer evangelism across 33 countries. She excels at translating business goals into repeatable cloud frameworks and operational runbooks that improve onboarding and SLA performance (>98% incident resolution). Outside core architecture work she has driven talent programs and community events, demonstrating an ability to scale technical initiatives and people programs alike. Her background in network-oriented digital systems gives her a systems-thinking edge when balancing security, cost, and reliability in production environments.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Network-Oriented Digital Systems, 9, Master of Science (MSc), Network-Oriented Digital Systems, 9 at University of Piraeus
English, German, Greek
Github Skills (4)
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iot-core1
raspberry-pi1
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Github contributions (5)
sophiehn/MySuperBots
Nov 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:168 commits, 171 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
Lybecker/GetMeAGuruBot
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 13 pushes in 1 day
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