Cloud Engineer focused on Azure, infrastructure automation, DevOps delivery and cloud security.

I build and automate secure Azure cloud infrastructure.

I have 1.5+ years of professional experience across Azure, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, enterprise integration and secure cloud delivery. My enterprise consulting work includes Azure delivery for Imperial College London and the Institute of Cancer Research through Fusion Practices.

I am completing an MSc in Cyber Security at the University of Surrey by 15 September 2026, with a focus on cloud security, secure systems, network security, risk management and applied cybersecurity.

Cloud Technical Consultant
Mar 2024 - Sep 2025

• Delivered Azure cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation and enterprise integration workflows.
• Designed Terraform-based infrastructure automation for scalable Azure environments.
• Developed Azure Data Factory workflows integrating Azure services with third-party applications.
• Applied secure cloud configuration across identity, networking and deployment controls.

Azure Developer, Fusion Practices client engagement

• Automated GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for Azure Data Factory using GitHub Secrets.
• Designed Terraform-based infrastructure automation.
• Reduced Azure Data Factory deployment time by 60%.
• Developed ADF middleware workflows for Azure and third-party application integration.

Azure Infrastructure Engineer, Fusion Practices client engagement

• Contributed to Azure infrastructure delivery using ARM Templates and Azure DevOps.
• Managed approvals, checks and library groups for controlled releases.
• Designed VNet and subnet structures for secure service connectivity and segmentation.
• Reduced infrastructure setup time by 50%.

A child online safety platform for digital gaming that aims to make age and guardian safety requirements easier to apply consistently across supported games. Winner of the University of Surrey Student Enterprise Ignite 2026 programme, securing £700 in funding to support development.

MSc research exploring a privacy and security gateway for governing how LLM applications access tools, data and external services, with a focus on least privilege and access governance.

Built a cost-effective in-house VPN application for Fusion Practices with a PyQt5 interface, reporting, monitoring and vulnerability remediation workflows, reducing third-party dependency and improving audit readiness.

A privacy-first self-hosted AI assistant concept focused on user-controlled data, task orchestration, API connectors and security-by-design.

Cloud: Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud
Azure: Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Event Hubs, VNets, Subnets
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, ARM Templates, CloudFormation
DevOps: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
Programming: Python, Java, C, JavaScript, Bash, YAML, HTML, CSS
Integration: REST APIs, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Fusion APIs, Oracle VBCS, Oracle SQL, BI Publisher
Security: IAM, VPN, Network Security, Secure Configuration, Cloud Security, Infrastructure Security

• IBM Architectural Thinking for Security, 2026
• EC-Council Ethical Hacking Essentials, 2024

• Guildford, UK
• muthurubanthilagar@gmail.com
• linkedin.com/in/muthu-ruban
• github.com/muthuruban

The portfolio is built with React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion and Lucide React.

npm install
npm run dev

For GitHub Pages:

npm run build:pages

Website content is centralised in src/data/portfolio.ts and the current resume is stored in public/muthuruban_resume.pdf.