About Me

I'm Éti Kagbala, a dual-certified AWS and Azure Solutions Architect based in Norfolk, UK. With over 18 years of experience in software development. I'm passionate about automation and translating business requirements into innovative, robust and scalable cloud solutions. I work across the full .NET stack, from legacy .NET Framework 4.x through to the latest .NET 10.

The Team

I lead a global team of seasoned Software Engineers and DevOps specialists based in the UK, Dominican Republic, and India. Our distributed team of AWS and Azure cloud experts provides coverage across UK, US, and India time zones, delivering solutions around the clock with continuous development and support.

Solutions Delivered

Our team has delivered enterprise-grade solutions across pharmaceutical, financial, and legal sectors:

  • Cloud-First Pharma Solutions: Migrated pharmaceutical compounding solutions from Windows IIS to Amazon ECS (Fargate) with ASP.NET Blazor, reducing hosting costs and improving security across EMEA, APAC, and UCAN regions
  • Serverless HL7 Processing: Engineered workflow management system using ASP.NET 8 Lambda API, SQS-triggered Lambda, and Angular 15 frontend—reduced annual hosting costs from $48,000 to $600
  • Azure Landing Zones: Introduced IaC CI/CD practices for legal sector, migrating from Bicep to Terraform with SQL Projects and dacpacs for schema management
  • Financial Compliance: Developed MiFID II regulatory reporting solution, optimising key reports from 45 minutes to 40 seconds using C#, F#, and Dapper
  • High-Volume SMS Service: Architected Azure Service Bus solution handling 650,000+ messages/month with dynamic load-balancing, saving £5,000 monthly
  • Enterprise CI/CD Transformation: Implemented Git workflows, automated code reviews, SonarQube quality gates, and deployment automation—reducing deployment times from hours to minutes

Get in touch to find out how we can deliver measurable value for your organisation.

Language Agnostic

Shipped solutions written in:

C# F# TypeScript JavaScript Python Yaml SQL Delphi Terraform CloudFormation Bicep

Developed with:

.NET 10 Blazor WebAssembly MudBlazor Angular ReactJS Astro Entity Framework SignalR Dapper

Integrated with:

Azure Service Bus SendGrid AWS SQS HL7 FHIR AWS ECS/EKS Docker

Our Skills

  • ✓ Enterprise solution design
  • ✓ Cloud migration (AWS & Azure)
  • ✓ Legacy code migration
  • ✓ Serverless architecture
  • ✓ Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep)
  • ✓ CI/CD pipelines (Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions)
  • ✓ SQL Server schema automation (dacpacs)
  • ✓ GxP & MiFID II compliance
  • ✓ Technical leadership & mentoring
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Cloud Platforms

  • ✓ Azure Functions & Static Web Apps
  • ✓ Azure Key Vault & App Insights
  • ✓ Azure Service Bus
  • ✓ Azure SQL & Redis Cache
  • ✓ AWS Lambda & Step Functions
  • ✓ AWS ECS & EKS Fargate
  • ✓ AWS RDS & API Gateway
  • ✓ AWS SQS & S3

Education

University of Bristol

(Engineering Management Partnership)
Post Graduate Certificate in Engineering Management

University of Greenwich

Chatham Maritime, BEng upper second class Honours in Mechanical Engineering

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. BSc Mechanical Engineering program

Additional Training

Cloud Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

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