Enterprise Architect · Multi-Cloud Systems · Strategy & Leadership

Mir Sarfarajey Akram

Enterprise Architect working across multi-cloud systems and enterprise platforms.

I write about architecture, governance, and AI systems in large, regulated enterprises.

15+ years of technical leadership, from backend systems to governing multi-cloud enterprise architectures.

Mir Sarfarajey Akram

Perspective

Enterprise architecture is the discipline of designing systems, technical and organizational, that can endure growth, regulation, cross-cloud complexity, leadership turnover, and AI disruption.

Incentives

Teams optimize for what they're measured on. Architecture must account for this.

Governance

Control without autonomy creates bottlenecks. Architecture must balance both.

Integration

Every connection is a future maintenance burden. Design with intention.

Time Horizon

What solves today's problem often creates tomorrow's constraint.

Principles

Start with Constraints, Not Features

Reality defines the system.

Design for Replaceability

Everything should be swappable.

Minimize Integration Surface Area

Every integration is a long-term liability.

Governance Is a Design Problem

Control must be built into architecture.

Optimize for the 5-Year Horizon

Short-term velocity should not create fragility.

Career

2024 – Present

Enterprise Architect

Designed multi-cloud governance guardrails adopted across distributed teams, reducing integration drift and improving delivery predictability.

2018 – 2024

Executive Architect

Standardized cross-cloud integration patterns and reusable frameworks to reduce redundancy and increase operational clarity.

2013 – 2017

Senior Consultant

Delivered secure API and identity architectures for large-scale enterprise environments.

2010 – 2013

Software Engineer

Built maintainable backend systems with production resilience in mind.

Certifications

Architecture

  • Certified System Architect
  • Certified Application Architect
  • Security, Integration & Data Architect
  • 28+ total Salesforce certifications

Cloud & Agile

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • SAFe 6 Agilist
  • SAFe Scrum Master

Academic Foundations

  • BSc Physics
  • Master of Computer Applications
  • MBA (in progress)

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