Martin Opedal

Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft

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Professional Summary

Summary

Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft 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.

Career History

Experience

Enterprise Cloud Solution Architect

2025 to Present

Microsoft

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

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, Cloud Practice

2024

European IT consultancy

Led the Azure 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

Global systems integrator

SI Solution Architect handling partner-channel sales. 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

Nordic managed services provider

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

Norwegian systems integrator

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 Banks

Well-Architected, multi-region platforms, networking, security, AI, platform migration, AVD, 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, observability

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, database modernization, multi-region, GitHub adoption

Financial Services

Datacenter exit, multi-wave migration, landing zones, private networking

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 PolicyAzure Virtual WANAzure Virtual Network ManagerAzure FirewallPrivate Link & Private DNSMicrosoft FoundryAzure API ManagementModel Context Protocol (MCP)Azure MonitorWorkload Identity FederationCapacity & Quota ManagementPowerShellVirtualizationNetwork 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

Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC) 2026

No More Spec-ulation: AI Agent Teams Building Production-Grade IaC

October 2026

Agentic AI & DevOps Days

Where does code generation stop and InfraOps start?

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