Tarak Blah
Senior Azure Cloud Architect at Nordcloud, an IBM Company
Zollikon, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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SeniorTarak Blah is a Senior Azure Cloud Architect with 12 years of experience designing, migrating and automating cloud-native infrastructures for enterprise clients across D/A/CH and beyond. He combines hands-on DevOps engineering—IaC with Pulumi/Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes/OpenShift—and security-first practices like Shift-Left testing to deliver reliable, cost-efficient systems. Tarak has led cross-functional teams and transformation projects from legacy on-prem VMware/OpenStack environments to modern Azure and AWS architectures, routinely building PoCs to de-risk migrations. Known for streamlining operations and reducing downtime during high-traffic events, he also brings practical SRE instincts from roles as Head of IT-Operations and DevOps lead. Based in Zurich, he pairs strategic stakeholder alignment with deep implementation skills, often moving beyond requirements to create measurable business value.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, French
Github Skills (69)
django7
infrastructure7
policies7
unicode7
django-project7
docker-compose6
django-framework6
scale6
ansible6
python6
devops6
docker6
cookbook6
chef-infra6
provisioning5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tarak/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 2 months
rspec-cloud/rspec-cloud-core
Nov 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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