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Luke Tayor

Luke Tayor

Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft.

I am an IT Professional with a master’s degree in mathematics and a keen interest in technology. I frequently spend time developing breadth in various technological areas both via online courses and hands-on practical projects. Currently, I am working in DevOps within the Azure Public Cloud using my skills to automate and implement the design, development, and deployment of cloud-native infrastructure solutions including network configuration, firewall management, governance, and monitoring. Working in such an expansive sector constantly presents opportunities to learn, which I seize willingly

Azure Cybersecurity Architect Expert
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
DevOps Engineer Expert
Azure Network Engineer
Azure Developer Associate
Azure Administrator Associate

Skills

Projects

Java
Java

The Vigenere Cipher is an encryption method, as part of a project I wrote an effective piece of code that could decrypt messages of any length and in any language.

RStudio
RStudio

The Lotka-Volterra equations are differential equations for a predator-prey cycle. I wrote the code for the Range-Kutta method in order to integrate and find the population sizes of any given prey or predator at any time.

LaTeX
LaTeX

My dissertation involved numerous mathematical equations, several diagrams, various newcommands requirements, and a bibliography. I coded all of it in LaTeX, a typesetting system for technical documentation.

Google Sheets
Google Sheets

Constructed a CSV document that shows account transactions, current monthly expenditure, long-term expenses/income, and future account balances. I manipulated the account transactions data using the powerful Query function to create meaningful insights.

Hugo
Hugo

I am using Hugo to deploy this website! Deploying a website through Hugo has further exposed me to CSS, HTML, JS which I have been learning. I also contribute to the Hugo theme I am using which is Toha.

Accomplishments

Evangelist - Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Earners of the Cloud Adoption Framework Evangelist badge advocated for the use of the Cloud Adoption Framework through online and offline channels to drive broad scale awareness.

Expert - Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Earners of the Cloud Adoption Framework Expert badge have proved their knowledge of cloud adoption by sharing and testing the guidance published in the framework with customers.

Leader - Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Earners of the Cloud Adoption Framework Leader badge have a thorough understanding of the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.

Collaborator - Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Earners of the Cloud Adoption Framework Collaborator badge have demonstrated their knowledge of cloud adoption by contributing best practices guidance, creating content, tools and assets to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
HashiCorp April 2023

Earners of the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification know the basic concepts, skills, and use cases associated with open source HashiCorp Terraform. Additionally, they understand why enterprises choose to extend Terraform Open Source with Terraform Enterprise to solve business critical objectives.

OpenHack: DevOps

Earners of the OpenHack: DevOps badge have fundamental understanding of the DevOps practices required to achieve zero downtime deployment of containerized micro-services running in Azure.

OpenHack: Containers

Earners of the OpenHack: Containers badge have a fundamental understanding of leveraging Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service to containerize an application and move it to the cloud.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Cybersecurity Architect Expert
Microsoft March 2023

A professional Microsoft accreditation.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
Microsoft January 2023

A professional Microsoft accreditation.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft November 2022

A professional Microsoft accreditation.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft August 2022

A professional Microsoft accreditation.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer
Microsoft June 2022

A professional Microsoft accreditation.

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft April 2022

A professional Microsoft accreditation.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Microsoft December 2021

A professional Microsoft accreditation.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft August 2021

A professional Microsoft accreditation.

Java Programming: Solving Problems with Software
Coursera April 2021

Completed through Coursera and was offered by Duke University.

Java Programming: Solving Problems with Software
Coursera October 2020

Completed through Coursera and was offered by Duke University, I also passed the course with an honours distinction.

Experience

1
Microsoft

December 2022 - Present, United Kingdom

Cloud Solution Architect

December 2022 - Present

  • Being a trusted advisor for the customer by gaining insights and driving solutions to map to business outcomes.
  • Dedicated to Azure Infrastructure including migrating Windows and Linux server, enabling hybrid scenarios, and using advanced networking for workloads.
  • Accelerating deployments with Azure Landing Zones.
  • Delivering on architectures aligned with the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) for production workloads.
  • Continually delivering and contributing to repeatable IP.
  • Embodying a learn-it-all mentality and self-skilling through certifications, workshops and hackathons.

Content+Cloud Limited

July 2021 - November 2022, United Kingdom

Azure Engineer

July 2022 - November 2022

  • Implemented an Azure Landing Zone utilising Azure Virtual WAN coupled with HA FortiGates, spanning 6 regions for a public listed company with 14,000 employees.
  • Handling the development of complex architectures of large enterprise customers.
  • Larger contribution in the various DevOps ceremonies.
Graduate Engineer

July 2021 - July 2022

  • Assigned as an SME for implementing an Azure Landing Zone for a major institution with over 50,000 members whilst simultaneously being single point of contact for post-deployment support.
  • Designed git branching strategy to facilitate development of an IaC Landing Zone solution for a team of 6.
  • Providing Infrastructure as Code solutions to implement the development and deployment of Azure Landing Zones for customers to onboard rapidly into Azure.
  • Developing and configuring full networking solutions in Azure with consideration to existing on-premises environments.
  • Providing DevOps consultancy.
  • Internally develop the products offered, relying heavily on the DevOps praxeology, especially through CI/CD and Agile.
  • Responsible for improving automation and efficiency of processes within the company.
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Education

Master of Science in Mathematics
Degree Classification: First Class
A-Levels
SubjectGrade
MathematicsA*
Further MathematicsA
BiologyA

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