About me

I'm Rahiel Akhtar, a senior consultant focused on designing, implementing, and adopting Azure cloud in enterprises. Most of my recent work has been embedded long-term with one of Norway's largest healthcare organisations, where scale and regulation both matter.

My focus is on Azure platform engineering — landing zones, networking, and governance in regulated environments. Day to day that means designing and maintaining network topologies, hybrid connectivity models, automating landing-zone vending with Terraform, and running enterprise policy-as-code with EPAC. I also spend a lot of time working directly with application teams — onboarding them into the platform, guiding architecture decisions, and pairing on real problems. That last part is the one I find most underrated in this line of work.

This blog is where I write about the specifics you only learn by doing — the war stories, the deep dives, and the things I wish were in the docs when I needed them. Most posts come out of real problems I've hit and solved, or patterns I've watched work (or fail) at enterprise scale.

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