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Presales & Solutions Architecture Advisory

Enterprise-grade cloud thinking, without the enterprise overhead.

Independent advisory for cloud transformation, presales technical wins, and regulated financial platforms — brought to you by a Senior Solutions Architect with 29 years steering CIOs, CTOs and engineering leaders through complex decisions.

59.33°N 18.07°E — STOCKHOLM · SERVING SWEDEN & THE NORDICS
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AWS Solutions Architect — Associate FinOps Certified Practitioner ITIL Foundation v3 Cisco CCNA 29 yrs enterprise advisory
Services

Four ways to bring in senior architecture thinking

Engagements are scoped to be affordable for mid-market teams and fast-moving programmes — no bench, no bureaucracy, direct access to a senior architect throughout.

Strategy

Cloud & platform transformation

End-to-end solution architecture and future-state roadmaps aligned to AWS, Azure or GCP — from discovery workshops through to a decision-ready architecture.

Sales engineering

Presales & technical win strategy

Discovery facilitation, solution demos, SOWs, LOEs and pricing models for teams that need to win complex enterprise sales cycles without a full presales bench.

Regulated environments

Payments & financial platform architecture

Architecture and advisory for regulated, high-availability platforms — informed by direct experience on mission-critical capital markets infrastructure.

Hands-on delivery

Cloud & DevOps implementation

CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline), containerisation with Docker, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation), plus Kubernetes orchestration and Prometheus/Grafana observability builds.

Emerging technology

GenAI & next-generation cloud enablement

Postgraduate-level training (Purdue University) in deploying generative AI in the cloud across AWS, Azure and GCP, plus FinOps, GitOps and AIOps — helping teams evaluate and adopt emerging cloud-native practices with confidence.

29
Years enterprise advisory
40–50%
Presales win rate
80–90%
Renewal success rate
99.95%
Uptime environments supported
Track record

Where this experience was built

A chronological view of the environments this advisory draws on — from multi-cloud migrations to mission-critical capital markets platforms.

2022 — Present · Nordcloud (an IBM company)

Senior Presales Solutions Architect

Architecting API-driven, multi-cloud solutions for enterprise accounts; hands-on delivery of CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, ECR, ECS Fargate) alongside FinOps and IaC governance for client-facing demonstrations.

2016 — 2022 · Charlottenlund Hotel & Restaurant

CEO & Cloud Strategy Lead

Led a full digital transformation from legacy systems to cloud infrastructure, driving 40%+ revenue growth through modernisation and automation.

2013 — 2018 · Nasdaq

Senior Technical Account Manager

Advised regulated capital markets clients on risk, resilience and SLA strategy for platforms running at 99.95% uptime; reduced technical incidents by 26% through proactive modernisation.

2011 — 2013 · Rg19

Enterprise Architect & Integration Specialist

Designed multi-cloud architectures across AWS, Azure and GCP, leading 40+ system migrations with secure VPC, IAM and networking foundations.

Certifications & credentials

The paperwork, briefly

AWS Solutions Architect — Associate FinOps Certified Practitioner Microsoft MCSE / MCSE+I / MCP+I Cisco CCNA ITIL Foundation v3 MBA — London Business School Cloud Computing & DevOps PG Program — Purdue University (Multi-Cloud, DevOps & GenAI)
FAQ

Common questions

Ask the assistant in the corner for anything not covered here — it's briefed on how this consultancy works.

Based in Stockholm, working across Sweden and the wider Nordics (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland), in person or remote. Engagements outside the Nordics are considered case by case.

Advisory, workshops and documentation are delivered in English or Swedish, whichever suits the stakeholders in the room.

Three simple models: a fixed-fee discovery workshop for a defined architecture question, a day-rate for ongoing advisory, or a monthly retainer for continuous presales/architecture support. Exact rates are confirmed after an initial call, scoped to be lean for mid-market budgets.

Both. Engagements range from board-level roadmap and technical-win strategy through to hands-on delivery of CI/CD pipelines, IaC and observability tooling.

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Direct contact

Phone+46 73 501 3182
Emailroger.robertson@gmail.com
LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/robertsonroger
BasedStockholm, Sweden
CoverageSweden & the Nordics

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