Adedeji Awolesi
Cloud Engineer (DevOps) | Microsoft MVP | FinOps | Microsoft MCT | Azure | GCP | AWS | Public Speaker | MBA
Manchester, United Kingdom
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Highly skilled and seasoned Cloud Engineer with a decade of experience in the Information Technology sector, specializing in Cloud Innovations. My Career journey has been marked by a deep commitment to excellence, continuous learning, and a passion for leveraging cloud technologies to drive business innovation and efficiency.
Key Acheivements
- Pivotal in successful migration of critical applications to multi cloud platforms.
- Reduce organisational cloud cost in different companies around the world by 40- 60%.
- Design and implement scalable cloud solutions that align with global organizational goals.
- Led cross-functional teams through complex Azure migration project, achieving a seamless transition and realizing significant cost savings for the organizations.
- International speaker in the field of Technology (Scottish Summit, Microsoft Lagos, MCT MVP Summit Abuja, CloudVille and Microsoft NAUG in Manchester etc).
- Contributing to the professional development of my peers, old generations and up coming sharps.
- High community engagement rate on different Platforms eg DevOps, FinOps, Microsoft, Azure, AWS, GCP etc
Area of Expertise
Topics
Unlocking Business Agility through FinOps Transformation
In recent times, there has been a rise in the Cloud Economy with a forecast growth of 21.7% to total $597.3b. These poses a lot of challenges for organisations as the power of spend is mostly on Engineers.
In this session, I will be able to discuss how I was able to help my organisation create value on the cloud spend and reduce cost by 60%.
I will go through some of the challenges faced, recommendations and implementations.
Mastering Azure DevOps with Version-Controlled Self-Hosted Agents: Elevate Your CI/CD Pipeline
In this session i will introducing CI/CD, Azure Devops, What Azure Devops agent are and also be looking at the difference between Microsoft Agent and Self hosted Agent.
We will look into the architecture of setting up a Agent image management, set up image versioning pipeline and then demo this process.
This session will be engaging and insightful.
Responsible AI - build a future ethical technology
In these session, I will be talking about how you can build, develop and deploy AI applications within trust frameworks and also how you can make sure your AI applications are monitored, secured and evaluated.
There will also be demo sessions on how this is applicable in a real life scenario.
Mastering Cloud Connectivity: Optimizing Performance with Azure Network Manager
This session, I will be giving an indepth presentation about Azure Network Manager.
I will be explainingf its common use cases, connectivity options with different topologies, security features, key scenarios and logs.
I will also be doing a demo of a hub and spoke topology, mesh and security admin.
AI on a Small Scale: Supercharging Growth for Small and Micro Businesses
This session will be a blog session where i will be talking about how small or micro business can leverage the use of AI for their business.
I have previously written about they can adopt technology and also cloud resources on my blog www.adedejiawolesi.com
I will be sharing strategies and tools they can adopt.
Automate to Elevate: Supercharging Efficiency with Azure Automation
In this session, we will be talking about Azure Automation, the core components, Automation runbooks, hybrid cloud wutomation, security and compliance, best practices, integration with other services like monitor and log analytics.
we will also be doing a lab demo.
Automating Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform and DevOps: From Code to Cloud with Azure Pipelines
In these session,
INTRODUCTION
OVERVIEW OF AZURE DEVOPS
OVERVIEW OF TERRAFORM
WHAT IS TERRAFORM
HOW DOES TERRAFORM WORK
TERRAFORM CORE CONCEPT
TERRAFORM LIFECYCLE
DEMO- A SAMPLE MODERNIZED APPS
Azure going out of business? Slashing cloud computing spend by over half using the power of FinOps
In recent times, there has been a rise in the Cloud Economy with a forecast growth of 21.7% to total $597.3b. These poses a lot of challenges for organisations as the power of spend is mostly on Engineers.
In this session, I will be able to discuss how I was able to help my organisation create value on the cloud spend and reduce cost by 60%.
I will go through some of the challenges faced, recommendations and implementations.
Azure Identity and Access Management: Safeguarding Your Cloud Resources with Confidence"
Effective identity and access management is the cornerstone of a secure and well-managed cloud environment. I will explore the robust capabilities of Azure Identity and Access Management (IAM) and how it empowers organizations to protect their cloud resources, control access, and ensure compliance..
I will be discussing how i implemented Identity Managemnt and Access within my organisation;
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) vs Roles
Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM
Conditional Access Policies
Azure AD APp registration and Managing Apps in AD
Identity Protection
Azure AD Connect and Syncronisations technques
Future for Azure AD
Challenges faced within Workspace.
GitHub Advanced Security and Manage Identity Integration: The Key to Secure Azure DevOps Workflow
Security is vital in the software development life cycle. This session will teach you how to integrate GitHub Advance security in Azure DevOps to detect vulnerabilities and also use Azure Manage identity from Azure to authenticate to Azure DevOps for your organisation.
Navigating the Cloud with Azure Network Manager for Scalable, Secure, and Centralised Solutions
This session, I will be giving an indepth presentation about Azure Network Manager.
I will be explaining its common use cases, connectivity options with different topologies, security features, key scenarios and logs.
I will also be doing a demo of a hub and spoke topology, mesh and security admin.
Migrate from Log Analytics Agent to Azure Monitor Agent: The Opportunities, Challenges and Impact
In these session, I will be talking about the migration from Log Analytics Agent to the Azure Monitor Agent within our Azure Tenant.
I will be explaining what LAA is, what AMA is, Why Microsoft decided to make the changes, the gap analysis done, the challenges faced, implementation, lessons learnt and also the continous imporvement work im undergoing.
Unleashing the Power of Azure: Navigating Cost Efficiency and Business Growth Through FinOps Mastery
With the rising cost in Cloud Economy ($225b in 2022, growth of $47b in previous years and $600b in 2023), Companies are now finding ways to minimize costs on Cloud computing spend.
FinOps is the way for teams to manage their cloud costs, where everyone takes ownership of their cloud usage supported by a central best-practices group. I recently used FinOps in a real scenario to reduce monthly spend in Azure by over $15,000
In this session I will be sharing
How I helped my company reduce cost by 60%
Process of how I incorporated FinOps to the organisation
Recommendation and Challenges faced introducing the Finops culture
Real world recommendations to help reduces costs by 50%
How we can use best practice to acheive reduction using FiNops frameworks
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Microsoft Learn Zero to Hero Community User group Sessionize Event
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Global Azure 2024 NAUG Sessionize Event
Azure Spring Clean 2024 Sessionize Event
Scottish Summit 2023 Sessionize Event
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