Emmanuel Kardaras
Systems and infrastructure professional pivoting from enterprise identity access management and render-farm operations into cloud engineering. Pursuing AZ-900 and AZ-104 — with hands-on deployments across Azure, AWS, and GCP built and monitored in a self-run home lab.
From enterprise infrastructure to cloud
Systems administrator with a background spanning enterprise identity and access management, high-throughput render-farm operations, and legacy system migration. Holds a Bachelor of Technology in Informatics and Security from Seneca College & York University, with hands-on specialization in system administration, network management, and virtualization.
Currently completing Microsoft Azure certifications to formalize cloud infrastructure experience built over more than two years of independent home lab operation — deploying, securing, and monitoring services the same way they'd be run in a production environment.
Infrastructure I run, not just study
| Hypervisors | Hyper-V, Proxmox VE |
| Network & security | pfSense firewall, segmented networking |
| Monitoring | Zabbix — uptime, performance, and traffic across the firewall, NAS, and game server |
| Storage | TrueNAS / network-attached storage |
| Containers | Docker — self-hosted apps and game servers |
| Cloud integration | Azure Static Web Apps & VM deployments, with hands-on exposure to AWS and GCP |
| Automation | Python and Bash scripting for routine tasks and troubleshooting |
Delivered work, not just lab exercises
Designed, built, and deployed a production B2B static website, migrating a client off a website-builder platform onto a custom-coded, cloud-hosted solution built for reliability and low operating cost.
- Deployed to Azure Static Web Apps with a full CI/CD pipeline via GitHub Actions — every push to main auto-deploys
- Configured DNS, SSL/TLS termination, and CDN routing for a custom domain
- Integrated a third-party API for transactional form handling, with spam protection
- Delivered complete infrastructure at zero hosting cost using free-tier cloud services
Hosted and maintain a personal website on Azure Static Web Apps, with VM provisioning and configuration handled directly through the Azure portal and CLI. Used as a standing environment to test infrastructure changes before they ever touch a production system.
Led the decommissioning of a legacy early-2000s dispatch system and oversaw the end-to-end migration to TaxiCaller, a Swedish-built cloud dispatch platform, consolidating multiple outdated machines onto a single master server during the transition.
- Coordinated the full cutover with zero disruption to active fleet operations
- Provided direct technical support to dispatch software users through go-live
Formal credentials, in sequence
Coursera — technical support fundamentals.
Core cloud concepts, Azure services, pricing, governance, and support.
Managing Azure identities, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks.
Technical range
Let's talk about a role
Actively applying for junior cloud support and cloud engineering roles across Canada. Open to fully remote positions and available to start on short notice.