Architecture Domains

Domains framed as ownership, decisions, and constraints rather than tools.

Cloud governance & landing zones

Enterprise scale
  • Enforceable guardrails across multi-account / multi-subscription estates.
  • Identity-first controls for network segmentation, encryption, and logging-by-default.
  • Trade-offs between platform autonomy and regulatory assurance.
  • Standard patterns for onboarding regulated workloads and maintaining audit survivability.

Identity-first and zero-trust-aligned security architecture

Control-plane design
  • Trust boundary definition, policy hierarchy, and least-privilege operating model.
  • Authentication and authorization strategy aligned to privileged access workflows.
  • Security architecture focused on containment, detection, and recoverability.
  • Assurance mechanisms for regulated and safety-adjacent environments.

Resilience, availability, and failure-domain design

Systemic risk
  • Failure-mode analysis and bounded-failure architecture across critical services.
  • Design for recoverability: backup integrity, restore time, and dependency discipline.
  • Trade-offs across cost, complexity, and operational survivability.
  • Operational patterns supporting continuity under uncertainty.

Critical infrastructure and safety-adjacent systems

Abstracted
  • Architectural controls shaped by safety constraints and operational volatility.
  • Segmentation patterns supporting containment and assured degradation.
  • Assurance of telemetry, incident response pathways, and governance enforcement.
  • Risk framing suitable for executive and regulator-facing contexts.