Martin Opedal

Lead Cloud Solution Architect

Microsoft

Oslo, Norway

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Professional Summary

Summary

Cloud Solution Architect with 15+ years leading complex IT programs across financial services, insurance, government, and technology. Trusted advisor to C-suite executives. Known for rapidly building strong customer relationships. Enterprise architecture, cost optimization, and data-driven decision-making are core strengths. 9 certifications. Strong interpersonal skills, team player, and mentor. Passionate about cloud computing. Willing to travel.

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Career History

Experience

Lead / Cross Cloud Solution Architect

2025 to Present

Microsoft · Oslo

Technology strategy for strategic enterprise customers. Strategic accounts portfolio across regulated Nordic enterprises. Orchestrating v-teams across sales, engineering, and customer success. Known for building trust quickly with new customers and teams. Facilitating customer workshops (Well-Architected, AI Foundry, architecture design). Creating reference architectures and best practices. Spoke at NIC (94% approval, Level 300, live-streamed), internal events (50 to 100 in-person, 200+ virtual).

Senior Cloud Solution Architect

2024 to 2025

Microsoft · Oslo

Technical pre-sales and consulting. Well-Architected assessments, reference architectures. Platform migrations for FSI and government. Drove platform adoption through consumption-based growth. Product engineering collaboration: field feedback, design reviews, roadmap influence.

Senior Manager, Microsoft Cloud

2024

Sopra Steria · Oslo

Led Microsoft cloud practice. Carried forward the large European bank engagement, leading their technical transformation and driving consultant expansion sales.

Group Manager, Cloud Architecture

2022 to 2024

Avanade · Oslo

SI Solution Architect handling sales to Accenture. Infrastructure lead, positioned for Nordics director role. Lead architect for a large European bank, driving their cloud migration. People manager and mentor, 48M+ NOK consultant portfolio, coordinating deliverables across cross-functional teams. Programs: CAF/ESLZ, IaC, security.

Cloud Solution Architect

2020 to 2022

Advania · Oslo

Customer relationship management, consulting. Cloud migration for mid-market and enterprise. Azure, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud. Cost optimization.

Senior Systems Consultant / TAM

2011 to 2020

Teknograd · Oslo

Systems engineering, technical account management. Datacenter-to-cloud migrations. Enterprise and distributed applications across Azure, M365, VMware, Citrix.

Selected Engagements

Enterprise Engagements

Tier-1 Nordic Bank

Well-Architected, platform migration, AVD, networking, Defender for Cloud

Leading Nordic Fintech

Executive-level cloud strategy, platform migration & architecture

Global Energy / Maritime

Agentic AI reference architecture, AI governance, multi-region migration

Global Shipping & Logistics

AI Foundry, agent orchestration, data platform migration (Fabric)

Major Nordic ISV

Azure Arc SQL migration, Private Link, AMPLS, ExpressRoute

Defense Contractor

Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Copilot, GHAS/CodeQL, Terraform, DevSecOps

Nordic Insurer

Security architecture, Global Secure Access, VPN migration

Government Bodies

Landing Zone migrations, governance frameworks, GitHub adoption

Expertise

Skills

Specializations

  • Cloud Strategy
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • C-Suite Advisory
  • AI Platforms
  • Security & Compliance
  • Migration & Modernization
  • Technology Strategy
  • Cloud Consolidation
  • Kubernetes / AKS
  • Stakeholder Management

Industry Knowledge

Microsoft AzureCloud ArchitectureSolution ArchitectureEnterprise ArchitectureCloud GovernanceCloud SecurityNetwork SecurityCybersecurityTechnical LeadershipPlatform EngineeringCloud-Native ArchitectureAzure Landing ZonesWell-Architected FrameworkCloud Adoption FrameworkStakeholder ManagementTechnical PresentationsProject DeliveryMigration Projects

Tools & Technologies

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)KubernetesTerraformBicep (Domain-Specific Language)Infrastructure as code (IaC)Generative AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningGitHub CopilotGitHubGitOpsAzure DevOps ServicesContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DevOpsMicroservicesDockerIdentity and Access Management (IAM)Microsoft Entra IDMicrosoft Defender for CloudAzure PolicyPowerShellVirtualizationNetwork Administration

Competencies

Trusted AdvisorExecutive EngagementEnterprise ArchitectureAzure Landing Zones (ALZ)Cloud Adoption FrameworkWell-Architected FrameworkSolution DesignTechnical Pre-SalesPre-Sales EngineeringCustomer SuccessStrategic + Operational RangeArchitectural StrategyStakeholder ManagementTechnical LeadershipCross-Functional CollaborationReference ArchitecturesWorkshop FacilitationTechnical EvangelismEnd-to-End Project DeliveryOpen Knowledge SharingHolistic Solution DesignMentorship
Credentials

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert Cloud
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert Cloud
  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert Cloud
  • Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert Cloud
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate Cloud
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Cloud
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate Cloud
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Tooling
  • ITIL Foundation Tooling
Public Speaking

Speaking

Agentic AI & DevOps Days (Oslo)

Where does code generation stop and InfraOps start?

Upcoming, 16 June 2026

Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC)

Live-streamed Level 300 session

94% approval

Microsoft customer sessions

GHAS, GitHub / Azure DevOps, Azure Arc / Local

Enterprise and regulated industries

Microsoft internal events

Architecture and platform sessions

50 to 100 in-person, 200+ virtual

Projects & Modules

Open Source

Azure Governance & Assessment

azure-analyzer PowerShell

Bundled assessment runner that unifies azqr, PSRule, AzGovViz, and 135 ALZ graph queries into one portable JSON + HTML report

alz-graph-queries PowerShell

Automated ALZ checklist validation: 135 Azure Resource Graph queries that take coverage from 49 to 135 items

GitHub Runners & Private Networking

avm-ptn-cicd-agents-and-runners Terraform

Official AVM pattern module for self-hosted ADO agents and GitHub runners with PAT and UAMI auth, no public IP egress

ghec-vnet-runners-azure Terraform

GitHub-hosted runners with Azure VNet integration for GHE.com, EU data residency and private endpoint connectivity

terraform-azurerm-github-runners-alz-corp Terraform

Self-hosted GitHub Actions runners that run inside ALZ Corp landing zones with central firewall egress

Terraform Platform Modules

terraform-azapi-aks-automatic Terraform

AKS Automatic with ALZ Corp networking, BYO VNet, multiple ingress options (AGC/NGINX/Istio), managed identity everywhere

avm-ptn-aiml-ai-foundry Terraform

Official AVM pattern module for Azure AI Foundry (formerly AI Studio) with network isolation and private endpoints

AKS Automation

aks-automatic-ingress-migration PowerShell

Automated migration from NGINX Ingress to Application Gateway for Containers on AKS Automatic clusters

Other Tooling

linkedin-auto-poster Python

RSS to LinkedIn pipeline, ingests tech feeds, scores relevance, drafts in your voice, publishes through a GitHub PR approval workflow