Valentine Zhuck

Core Competencies

• Cloud Strategy & Transformation (Azure Certified, AWS) - proven track of designing cloud adoption strategy, aligned with organizational goals, leading cloud transformation with business recognized outcomes, including $1M reduction in infrastructure TCO (Total Cost of Ownership);
• Cloud Certified AI Experience - including but not limited to prompt engineering, RAG-based solutions (leveraging vector databases), multi-agent system design, computer vision, and document intelligence
• Solution Architecture - have designed and delivered scalable, resilient B2B & B2C digital platforms, generating multi-million-dollar revenue across industries such as insurance, e-commerce, real estate, life sciences, intellectual property, and ERP
• Architecture Review - identifying solution shortcomings and providing actionable roadmap of system modernization with focus on achieving business goals (proven impact of eliminating $3M annual losses)
• Performance Optimization - conducting architecture reviews, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing performance optimizations, resulting in 30% improvement in system performance
• Hands-On Expertise - DevSecOps (IaC, landing zone, security & finOps baselines, CI/CD Pipeliens, etc.), application development (C#/.NET, JavaScript, Python, React)
• Solution Architect Responsibilities - identifying business goals, gathering requirements, defining estimated scope, designing and developing tailored solutions to meet business needs, driving structuring development, and implementing best practices
• Soft Skills & Leadership - ability to build trustful relationships with C-Level stakeholders, training & mentoring developers to help me bridge a gap to architect role

Skills

• AI: Azure AI Foundry, RAG, MGP, GitHub co-pilot
• Cloud Architecture: AZURE Certified, AWS
• Architecture Styles: SOA, Microservices, Serverless
• Infrastructure: IaC, Bicep, PowerShell, Terraform
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TeamCity, github, Groovy
• API: REST, SOAP, Swagger, Azure API Manager
• SSO: Keycloak, Auth0, Azure EntraID
• Databases: Elasticsearch, MongoDB, SQL, SQL Manage Instance, Cosmo DB, PostgreSQL, Azure Data Explorer, Athena, Redis
• Programming: C# (.NET & .net core), JaveScript, Python, Typescript
• Front End: React, JQuery, Angular
• Repositories: Git, TFS, Artifactory, Azure Artifacts
• Observability: Open Telemetry, Azure App Insights & Database Watcher, Splunk, Logstash, Kibana
• Quality Gates: SonarQube, JsLint, Unit Testing, e2e testing
• Containerization: AKS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker
• SaaS: Google Firebase, Braze (relationship management), Contentful, Split IO, Kount (fraud detection), SheerID, Payeezy,
• Performance & Optimization: Azure Load Tests, .net dump file analysis

Certificates