Freelance on zoph.me

Thoughts on Indie AWS Consulting in 2025

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 13:37:00 +0200

Background

I started my career in the glass industry as a SysAdmin, specifically in a glass factory crafting fragrance bottles and bottles for pharmaceutical industries in the north of France. Since then, I’ve focused on IT security and cloud computing.

After many full-time positions for Microsoft, French Logistic Railroad, and IT consulting firms, I decided to run my AWS consulting boutique by myself 5 years ago.

Just at the beginning of the pandemic, what a visionary…

Update on being Independent [6 months later]

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:37:00 +0200

This post is the second part of a series about my journey as an Independent AWS Cloud Architect.

Status

As I already told you in the first part, I started my own business in early January 2020.

After the first 6 months of being an Independent AWS Architect in France, I’m very happy with this move, no regret, and I don’t see any upcoming U-turn to come back as a full-time employee.

On being Independent

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 13:37:00 +0200

In December 2019, I’ve decided to switch from a long-time (15 years) habit of Full-Time Employee (FTE) contracts to running my own business as an Independent AWS Cloud Architect.

This decision came to me after a few disappointments from my past experiences as a traditional employee/consultant, and I had been thinking about this switch for several years.

It was the perfect time for me to start this new challenge:

I’ve no plan to take a homebuyer’s loan for the next few years.
I’m confident regarding my AWS skills now, even if I still have a lot to learn.
My network is now large enough to easily get new opportunities (friends, ex-colleagues, acquaintances, social network).
My wife is working and has an FTE job.

I will focus on value delivery to my customers as a freelance consultant, in the following areas: Modern Cloud Architecture Design, Security Assessments, Reliability, Automation, Cost-Effectiveness, Training and so on.