About Me

Hi I’m Donovan Said ,
I have a wealth of experience working in Cloud Transformation. I’ve worked on an extensive and varied portfolio of projects for multiple FTSE 100 companies and government entities, throughout which I’ve gained significant experience at every stage of the Cloud Transformation lifecycle, both from an infrastructure and application modernisation perspective. My favourite part of this job is finding innovative and simple solutions for complex problems.

CSP Skills

AWS

85%

Azure

30%

GCP

15%

DevOps Skills

Infrastructure

80%

Serverless

70%

Automation

75%

Soft Skills

Consulting

75%

Leadership

65%

Principal Cloud Systems Develop, Cloudreach, Uk

2022 — Present

Throughout my time at Cloudreach, I’ve had the opportunity to work on an extensive and varied portfolio of projects for multiple FTSE 100 companies and government entities. Whilst on these engagements, I’ve been heavily involved in the design, development, management and governance of the solutions that we were brought in to deliver. With respect to the solutions themselves, these have ranged from an AWS Landing Zone platform for a national financial regulator to an EV charging frontend platform for a multinational energy provider.

Senior Cloud Systems Develop, Cloudreach, Uk

2019 — 2022

Building on from my previous role, this position was where I was really able to focus on improving my technical leadership and people management skills. Throughout my time in this position, I was the technical lead for multiple customer engagements ranging from Landing Zone platforms to Application Migrations and Modernisations. In addition to work on customer engagements, I was also responsible for managing a team of engineers within Cloudreach, specifically in career growth. All in all, this was a multidisciplinary role, with a focus on depth of technical knowledge, people management, both internally and on customer engagements, as well as having a broad understanding of organisational requirements and challenges.

Cloud Systems Develop, Cloudreach, Uk

2016 — 2019

Having joined Cloudreach through their graduate programme, this role was pivotal in building my foundational industry experience. I was fortunate enough to have worked on high profile customer engagements such as with a national financial regulator and a multinational insurance provider. Both of which were at an early stage in their cloud adoption, which provided me with the opportunity to really experience the challenges of not only migrating to the Cloud, but also to really understand and be able justify that move, both in terms of the technology and the cultural shift within an organisation that comes with it. On the whole, this role provided me with a strong foundational technological understanding in the Cloud space, as well as a broad understanding of managing technology within large organisations.