About Abdelali
Cloud Architect with 17+ years of experience leading cloud transformation, governance, and modernization initiatives across AWS, Azure, OCI, and IBM Cloud for major clients in banking, insurance, and industry. Proven ability to design and guide the delivery of cost-effective, secure, and compliant architectures that support business strategies and meet regulatory standards. Recognized for driving cross-functional collaboration between clients, cloud providers, and delivery teams to achieve operational excellence.
Bringing a transversal vision across development tooling, infrastructure, networking, security, and governance, I excel at aligning diverse teams and bridging technical and executive discussions. Founder of ForgeInbox, a GDPR-ready platform for secure and scalable email campaign delivery, where I defined the multi-cloud architecture and coordinated engineering execution demonstrating the ability to blend strategic cloud leadership with hands-on technical expertise.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Spanish
Conversational
Arabic
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Châtenay-Malabry (up to 50km)
Experience
- ForgeInboxFounder & Cloud Solutions ArchitectTECHJanuary 2025 - September 2025 (8 months)Châtenay-Malabry, FranceFounder of ForgeInbox (www.forgeinbox.com), a GDPR-ready cloud platform operated by the ForgeInbox team to deliver secure and compliant email marketing campaigns on behalf of clients. Customers securely provide their campaign details, and ForgeInbox manages the end-to-end delivery process using a highly scalable, monitored, secured and resilient cloud infrastructure.Key Contributions:
- Architected a multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, and others) with built-in scalability, observability, and data protection by design.
- Ensured the GDPR ready compliance, by implementing strict data handling, security, and audit practices.
- Led and coordinated engineering activities, aligning infrastructure, DevOps, and security teams toward a unified delivery model.
- Defined governance, monitoring, and automation frameworks to ensure reliability, transparency, and operational excellence.
- Combined strategic cloud governance expertise with hands-on technical leadership to establish ForgeInbox as a trusted partner for secure and compliant campaign delivery.
- AXA Group OperationsEnterprise Architect – CloudBANKING AND INSURANCEOctober 2024 - February 2025 (4 months)Paris, FranceAppointed within the Group Cloud Governance team to analyze and strengthen AXA’s multi-cloud governance model (AWS & Azure) following an independent cloud audit. Focused on aligning infrastructure practices, organizational processes, and compliance controls with enterprise strategy and regulatory expectations.Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
- Assessed existing AWS and Azure environments, including Landing Zones, networking, security controls, automation frameworks, and service catalogs, to evaluate compliance with AXA’s governance standards.
- Defined strategic action plans (short-, medium-, and long-term) to remediate audit findings, reinforce governance maturity, and improve adherence to cloud operating models.
- Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders (Operations, FinOps, Architects, Executives) to bridge business strategy with operational implementation, ensuring governance recommendations were actionable and adopted.
- Led governance workshops consolidating audit outputs and operational insights into structured documentation: governance maturity reports, irregularities, and prioritized roadmaps.
- Advised executives on the implications of Broadcom’s VMware acquisition; assessed virtualization dependencies and delivered a strategic roadmap to maintain technology sovereignty.
- Recognized for clear and adaptive communication, translating complex governance and architectural issues into concise recommendations for senior leadership.
- ThalesSenior Solutions ArchitectDEFENSE AND MILITARYOctober 2023 - September 2024 (11 months)Paris, FranceJoined the Cloud Migration and Modernization Program at Thales to define and guide the migration of business-critical applications to a new cloud infrastructure. My role focused on architecture design, migration roadmap, and stakeholder enablement to ensure secure, compliant, and efficient migrations in alignment with corporate and regulatory standards.Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
- Defined the migration framework covering the full lifecycle — from application assessment to legacy decommissioning — ensuring alignment with enterprise governance and security standards.
- Designed cloud architectures (HLD/LLD) and proposed migration blueprints for applications, validating each design through architecture and security committees.
- Standardized architecture patterns and reusable components to streamline application onboarding and accelerate delivery timelines.
- Contributed to the Software Factory initiative, designing CI/CD principles and automation practices to enhance collaboration between development, operations, and business teams.
- Presented migration designs to governance boards and stakeholders, ensuring technical compliance, risk mitigation, and smooth adoption of new cloud environments.
- Supported program governance by drafting Statements of Work (SOWs), aligning delivery priorities with product owners, and maintaining consistency with the global migration roadmap.
- Promoted the program internally through workshops, documentation, and stakeholder engagement to demonstrate the value and benefits of the modernization initiative.
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Education
- Engineer diploma in Information Technologies, option Systems and Networks Administration & SecurityEcole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieur de Bourges2007
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – ProfessionalAWS
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAWS2023