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Muhammad H.

Muhammad H.

Azure Architect | Terraform, AI Infrastructure, Landing Zones, APIM

I build and fix Azure environments. I've spent six years on landing zones, Terraform platforms, networking, cost, cleanup, and currently working on the infrastructure of Azure AI products. I do two things. I design Azure solutions from the ground up — landing zone, networking, governance, all in code before the first workload lands. And I go into environments that already exist and fix what's gone wrong. ✦ Agentic AI infrastructure Azure AI Foundry deployments spread across regions behind API Management, so traffic reroutes on 429s or 5xx and nobody notices. Token limits per team so one group can't burn everyone's quota. Container Apps backends, MCP integrations, Cosmos for conversation state, private endpoints on all of it. ✦ Azure landing zones Cloud Adoption Framework at scale — the largest was 140+ subscriptions under one governance model, with policy-as-code guardrails that held up under audit. Hub-and-spoke networking, private DNS, connectivity back to on-prem. ✦ Terraform platforms HCP Terraform with state properly separated and modules you can reuse, so dev/QA/prod stay identical and adding a workload is a config change rather than a project. Checkov and tfsec gating every plan and apply. ✦ Security and compliance Entra ID with conditional access and PIM, posture management through Defender for Cloud and Prisma Cloud. Core implementer on an ISO 27001 certification covering cloud and CI/CD. ✦ Cost optimization $200K off one client's annual Azure bill through rightsizing, automated schedules, and going through consumption line by line — plus $25K recovered in credits. ✦ How I work A short paid discovery first: a few hours to read your setup properly, then a written plan and fixed scope so nothing surprises you later. I work in your repos and your naming conventions, and I leave documentation your team can run without me. Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert · Azure Security Engineer Associate · HashiCorp Terraform Associate · ISO/IEC 27001 Associate. If you've got something working in a notebook that needs to survive real users, or an Azure estate that's outgrown its original plan, tell me where you're stuck. I'll be straight with you about whether I'm the right fit.

🇨🇦Oakville, Canada$70/hr100% JSS4.81 (4)Since May 2023

Earnings and projects

MRR
$0

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#240,670 / 412k
🇨🇦Country#4,229 / 7,133
Revenue, last 30 days
$0
Total earnings
$5.9k

Billed in all: $6.2k

World#240,670 / 412k
🇨🇦Country#4,229 / 7,133
Per project
$1.2k
Projects, last 6 months
0
World#209,850 / 412k
🇨🇦Country#3,126 / 7,133
Projects in all
5

Across 6 contracts

33% fixed67% hourly
World#266,042 / 412k
🇨🇦Country#4,681 / 7,133

Earnings, last 30 days

$6.2kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$6.1k$6.2k$6.3k$6.4kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

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