
Abdeldjalil Sichaib
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Platforms Developer
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal member since August 28, 2026
Abdeldjalil is a senior solutions architect with 16+ years of experience delivering enterprise AI, cloud, and data platforms. He leads customer engagements from technical strategy and architecture through deployment, production readiness, and adoption across Azure, AWS, and GCP. He's a former Microsoft account technology strategist experienced in advising executives and delivering secure, scalable AI and cloud solutions.
Portfolio
Experience
- Cloud Platforms - 13 years
- Azure - 13 years
- FinOps - 10 years
- Leadership - 8 years
- Terraform - 8 years
- Kubernetes - 5 years
- Enterprise AI - 3 years
- Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Anthropic, OpenAI
The most amazing...
...AI platform I've architected enabled secure GenAI use cases for millions of client customers by integrating 15+ enterprise systems.
Work Experience
Solutions Architect Lead
LEGRAND
- Led executive GenAI strategy and architecture workshops with global business and IT stakeholders, converting them into a prioritized adoption roadmap and an agreed platform investment plan.
- Architected and deployed an enterprise AI platform on Azure AI Foundry with vector search and LLM orchestration, enabling secure, business-ready AI use cases over internal knowledge sources.
- Designed the AI-ready data layer on Microsoft Fabric, integrating more than 15 enterprise systems, including ERP, CRM, and SharePoint, to serve governed AI and analytics workloads.
- Delivered two AI use cases into production in France, embedding governed enterprise data and GenAI capabilities into B2C applications used by millions of Legrand customers.
- Defined the target cloud architecture for AI workloads on AKS and Azure Container Apps, standardising security, scalability, CI/CD, and production operating practices.
- Established platform governance and infrastructure standards across Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, security, and FinOps, giving business teams a repeatable path to deploy new AI use cases.
Cloud AI Solutions Architect
A1 Group
- Designed and implemented secure Azure data landing zones, covering hub-and-spoke networking, private DNS, RBAC, managed identities, policy, and logging for production workloads.
- Delivered a governed data platform on Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse, Databricks, and Synapse, giving business domains self-service analytics, reporting, ML, and AI experimentation.
- Designed and built RAG-based GenAI copilots hands-on with Azure OpenAI and AI Search, integrating enterprise knowledge sources, embeddings, retrieval, and LLM orchestration to support approximately 300 users.
- Implemented the AKS clusters running data processing jobs, ML model serving with Python, TensorFlow, and Kubeflow, and GenAI runtimes, including node pools, networking, security hardening, and model endpoint APIs for downstream applications.
- Operationalized ML workflows with MLflow and Databricks alongside data science and engineering teams, managing the model lifecycle and surfacing analytics in business applications through Power BI.
Solutions Architect
Alstom
- Created and evangelized a Kubernetes-as-a-Service offering for Alstom business units, defining architecture patterns, onboarding processes, and AKS self-service capabilities to accelerate containerized application adoption and simplify onboarding.
- Architected production-grade multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with secure networking, Azure Policy, and OPA Gatekeeper for governance, and Prometheus and Grafana for end-to-end observability.
- Hardened Kubernetes clusters at scale by defining security standards and automating configuration with Ansible, improving compliance and aligning environments with CIS Kubernetes benchmarks.
- Implemented GitOps with Argo CD and Rancher Fleet for declarative configuration management across Kubernetes clusters, improving consistency, auditability, automation, and drift prevention at scale.
- Designed container-native CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Helm, and Terraform, enabling teams to deploy data-intensive and event-driven applications on Kubernetes through standardized, repeatable workflows.
Cloud Architect, FinOps Lead
Santander Bank
- Partnered with the Global CTO and Cloud CCoE to translate business needs into Azure and AWS solutions, driving application modernization and containerization.
- Designed cloud-native architectures for on-prem applications using PaaS and containers, aligned with enterprise cloud security and landing-zone standards.
- Established a FinOps practice based on the FinOps Foundation framework, improving cost visibility and accountability while reducing cloud spend by 20% in the first year.
Cloud Solutions Architect
Cargolux
- Deployed Sentinel-based security monitoring and analytics for Cargolux cloud environments.
- Migrated IaaS-hosted applications to PaaS and containers for improved scalability.
- Redesigned network connectivity onto Azure Virtual WAN to enhance performance.
- Drove cost optimization initiatives for cloud consumption strategy.
Cloud Architect (Azure and GCP)
LVMH Group
- Defined cloud governance and deployment frameworks for LVMH Group and its Maisons.
- Implemented a worldwide hybrid Active Directory identity framework with supporting security components.
- Wrote global Azure architecture references across IaaS, network, PaaS, containers, and serverless.
- Devised application modernization approaches aligned to group standards, including rehost to PaaS, refactor to containers, and re-architect.
- Gave guidance to LVMH Maisons, including Dior, Louis Vuitton, Céline, and Kenzo, through cloud migration and DevOps industrialization with Scrum.
- Gave advice to LVMH Maisons on choosing between Azure and GCP based on workload comparisons.
- Built the CI/CD chain on Azure DevOps, integrating GitHub, Jenkins, and Terraform.
Cloud Consultant
Talan
- Prepared technical offers and pre-sales solution designs for enterprise customers, aligning proposed architectures with business and budget constraints.
- Audited existing Microsoft infrastructure and unified communications environments to identify gaps ahead of cloud migration.
- Managed Microsoft infrastructure and unified communications deployments for enterprise clients, ensuring continuity through the transition to cloud.
Account Technology Strategist
Microsoft
- Delivered pre-sales technical and architectural support to enterprise customers, translating business requirements into Microsoft cloud solutions and driving adoption and consumption growth across assigned accounts.
- Partnered with executive and technical stakeholders across 12 strategic accounts during pre-sales engagements to define cloud adoption strategies, influence technical decisions, and establish trusted-advisor relationships.
- Delivered the FastTrack program for onboarding and adoption of Office 365 and EMS, guiding customers from initial deployment through active usage.
- Built and executed per-account consumption plans that delivered 120% of the cloud consumption target in the first year and 180% in the second.
- Communicated customer requirements and product gaps to Microsoft product groups to inform product and technical direction.
- Positioned Microsoft cloud services against Amazon and Google in competitive enterprise evaluations.
System Engineer
SoftwareONE
- Led the Microsoft business unit for a regional IT reseller, bridging commercial targets and technical client needs across enterprise and mid-market accounts.
- Designed and deployed hybrid cloud infrastructure for major oil & gas, banking, and telco clients, integrating on-premises Microsoft environments with Azure.
- Audited and managed Microsoft infrastructure and unified communications environments, translating technical requirements into solution proposals for enterprise customers.
Experience
GoGain
https://www.gogainparis.com/Members follow personalized training programs, track nutrition, use guided meditation, and talk to an AI coach by voice. The app reads activity, sleep, and heart-rate data from Apple HealthKit and Android Health Connect to measure progress and drive community challenges. Corporate clients, including hotel groups such as Park Hyatt and InterContinental, manage seat-based licenses, schedule on-site wellness sessions for their guests and staff, and follow attendance from the dashboard.
I am the sole engineer across the six repositories: product and data architecture, mobile and web development, API and AI services, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and security. Recent milestones include migrating a legacy 3rd-party booking platform into GoGain with no downtime and no data loss, moving all media to Azure Blob Storage, and upgrading the mobile app to meet new Google Play platform requirements.
Taitor
https://app.taitor.aiIt spans IB, GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, and MYP, drawing on a vetted bank of around 2,900 curriculum-mapped questions with official mark schemes and diagrams. Difficulty is adapted per student based on demonstrated mastery and recurring error patterns. Schools get a complete workspace: staff assemble units and study material, issue work to classes, present it live on a classroom board, and read class-wide mastery heat maps showing where a group is struggling. Parents can track their child's progress through a dedicated portal.
The platform is built on Next.js and React, with Python services, PostgreSQL, and Azure infrastructure, and runs as a multi-tenant service for schools while remaining fully usable by individual families.
SkyOps
https://skyops.aiThe back end (Node.js/Express) ingested and normalized billing data from Azure Cost Management + Consumption APIs, AWS Cost Explorer/CUR, and GCP Billing, reconciling three incompatible cost models (resource tags, SKUs, and currencies) into a single schema. It surfaced rightsizing recommendations, idle resource detection, reserved instance/savings plan coverage gaps, and budget anomaly alerts. The React front end delivered interactive cost-allocation dashboards (by team, project, and tag) and drill-down reporting for FinOps and engineering stakeholders.
I ran SkyOps as a real product — pricing, onboarding, and pilot customers — validating multi-cloud FinOps as a market before eventually folding the learnings into later enterprise FinOps engagements (Santander, Cargolux).
Education
Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
HEC Paris - France
Engineer's Degree in Information Systems
ESI Algeria - Algeria
Certifications
Data Engineer Associate
Databricks
AI Infrastructure and Operations Associate (NCA-AIIO)
NVIDIA
CKS
Kubernetes (CNCF)
CKA
Kubernetes (CNCF)
Azure AI Engineer
Microsoft
Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
Azure Security Engineer
Microsoft
Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Claude API, Node.js, React, TensorFlow, REST APIs
Tools
Terraform, Claude, Claude Code, Synapse, Claude Agent SDK, Microsoft Copilot, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Grafana, Ansible, Helm, Elastic, Dynatrace, AWS IAM, IBM Information Management System, VMware
Languages
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Management
Platforms
Azure, Kubernetes, Microsoft Fabric, SharePoint, Amazon Web Services (AWS), iOS, Databricks, Kubeflow, Docker, Dataiku, Linux, NVIDIA CUDA, Microsoft
Frameworks
LangGraph, Data Lakehouse, Next.js, Express.js
Storage
Google Cloud, PostgreSQL
Industry Expertise
Healthcare, Marketing
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, FinOps, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Platforms, FastAPI, Microsoft Azure, RAG Architecture, Vector Databases, Agentic AI, Communication, Attention to Detail, Supabase, ChatGPT API, Solution Architecture, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Azure AI Foundry, Large Language Models (LLMs), GCP, Security, Anthropic, OpenAI, Leadership, Enterprise AI, AI Agents, LLM Integration, Machine Learning, Observability, Model Evaluation, Employee Upskilling, Workshop Facilitation, Training Workshops, Data Science, Prompt Engineering, Training, AI Systems, Agentic AI Systems, Multi-agent Systems, Team Leadership, Code Review, Conversational AI, User Interface (UI), Bug Fixes, Gemini API, Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), Auditing, SEO Tools, CRM, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), MLflow, OPA Gatekeeper, Prometheus, GitOps, Rancher Fleet, Argo CD, Networking, Foundry, Business, Strategy, Finance, Organization, Startups, Investments, Computer Science, IT Project Management, Systems, Migration, Office 365, Tech Sales, Presales, LangChain, OpenAI SDK, Authentication, Web UX, Web UI, Multi-agent Orchestration, Storage, Active Directory (AD), Deployment, Architecture, IT Infrastructure, Exchange Server, Delivery
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