Alen Toholj Cloud Solution Architect & Cloud Team Lead

I'm a Cloud Solution Architect and DevOps Engineer leading the cloud team at Blum. My job is to design the platforms other teams build on — secure, well-governed cloud environments on Azure and AWS — and to make sure the road from a developer's commit to production is fast, repeatable, and safe.

In practice that means codifying infrastructure with Terraform, standing up CI/CD pipelines with security and compliance built in rather than bolted on, and running containerized workloads on Kubernetes. I care about the things that don't show up in a demo: reliability, observability, and cost efficiency — the difference between a system that works and one you can trust at 3 a.m.

My path started in systems engineering and data-center operations, which is where I learned how infrastructure actually behaves under pressure. Leading a team now, I spend as much time raising the bar on architecture and automation standards as I do writing code myself — always looking for the smarter, simpler way to build.