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Abdul Rehman Aftab

Available for new engagements

Cloud that behaves
predictably.

I design, migrate and run cloud platforms for teams who need them to be correct, affordable and boring — and then I stay on to keep them that way.

Platforms

  • Microsoft Azure· primary
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
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Abdul Rehman Aftab

Abdul Rehman Aftab

Cloud Architect & Microsoft Certified Trainer

I am Abdul Rehman Aftab, a cloud architect based in Dubai. I came to the cloud from application development and spent nine years designing, migrating and operating it — mostly on Azure, where I also teach the curriculum as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Most of my work is making someone else’s cloud predictable again.

Dubai, UAE

9+ years
Experience
AZ-305
Certification
MCT
Microsoft
Dubai
Based in

Abdul Rehman Aftab is a cloud architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer based in Dubai, UAE, with over nine years of experience designing, migrating and operating cloud platforms. He works primarily on Microsoft Azure, where he is a former Microsoft MVP and holds the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification, and also delivers work on AWS and Google Cloud. He works with teams internationally on cloud architecture, migration and managed operations.

Services · Assess, change, operate

Three ways in, in the order they usually happen.

Most engagements start with an assessment, because guessing is expensive. You can stop after any one of them.

01

Assess

A fixed-price review that tells you what you actually have and what it is costing you.

Architecture, security posture, cost and operational risk across your cloud estate, delivered as a written report with prioritised findings — not a slide deck. Scoped and priced up front, so it is a purchase decision rather than an open-ended engagement.

  • A dependency and architecture map you can actually hand to someone
  • Cost findings ranked by saving against effort
  • Security and governance gaps against the Well-Architected Framework
  • A sequenced plan you can execute with or without me
02

Change

Migration, re-architecture and the automation that stops it regressing.

Landing zones, migrations from on-premises or another cloud, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and identity. The goal is that the next person can understand it without calling me — so it ships with documentation and runbooks as a matter of course.

  • Infrastructure defined in code, reviewed like code
  • Repeatable deployments rather than a portal clicked by hand
  • Documented runbooks handed to your team
  • A rollback path that has actually been tested
03

Operate

Ongoing managed operations for teams without a dedicated platform engineer.

Monitoring, patching, cost review, incident response and a standing monthly report. Sized for organisations that need senior cloud operations without the cost of hiring for it.

  • Defined response times, agreed in writing
  • Monthly cost and posture review with actions, not just charts
  • Change managed through pull requests, never ad-hoc portal edits
  • A named person who already knows your environment
Start with a conversation

About · Today

Nine years on the same problem, from three sides.

I have spent nine years on the same problem from three sides: building software, running the platforms it sits on, and teaching other engineers to do both.

Most of my work is Azure — architecture reviews, migrations, and the unglamorous operational work that decides whether a migration was actually worth doing — though a fair share of it lands on AWS and Google Cloud, and the problems rarely turn out to be platform-specific. I came to it from application development, which is why I tend to argue for infrastructure that developers can reason about rather than infrastructure that only its author understands.

As a Microsoft Certified Trainer I teach the Azure architecture and DevOps curricula, which keeps me honest: it is difficult to hand-wave through a design decision in front of a room of engineers who will have to live with it.

I work with clients internationally from Dubai. In practice that means I overlap with European mornings and US East Coast mornings, which covers most of the working day for the people I usually work with.

Working with me

  • Dubai, UAE
  • GST (UTC+4) — overlaps European mornings and US East Coast mornings
  • Available for new engagements

Credentials

  • Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)Active
  • Microsoft MVP
  • Azure Solutions Architect ExpertAZ-305
  • Azure DevOps Engineer ExpertAZ-400
  • Azure Developer AssociateAZ-204
  • Azure Administrator AssociateAZ-104

What I work with

Cloud & platform

  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Landing zones
  • Well-Architected reviews

Automation

  • Terraform
  • Bicep
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

Build

  • .NET
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • SQL Server

Contact

Tell me what is breaking.

The most useful first message describes the problem rather than the technology — what is not working, what it is costing, and what you have already tried. I reply to everything within one working day.

Book a call

GST (UTC+4) — overlaps European mornings and US East Coast mornings

Email
abdulrehman.pro@gmail.com
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/in/abdulrehmanaftab
GitHub
github.com/abdulrehmanaftab
Location
Dubai, UAE

Best fit: teams running production cloud workloads who need senior help and do not have a platform engineer. Not a fit: one-off scripts, or work that needs someone on site full time.