IT Director.
Cloud, Security
& AI Governance.

I lead technology transformation at Liaise in London — defining and executing strategy across cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and AI governance. Outside the day job I design, build and ship my own apps, data platforms and AI systems.

Amine Amrani
What I Do

Over 15 years in IT, from supporting small businesses with laptops and websites while studying, to leading technology transformation, secure cloud platforms and AI governance across regulated industries.

Cloud & Infrastructure
Architected and migrated enterprise workloads to Azure and AWS, cutting infrastructure costs by 40% while achieving 99.9% uptime across multi-site environments.
AzureAWSHybrid CloudVMware
Security & Compliance
Led Cyber Essentials Plus certification and ISO 27001 alignment for pharmaceutical companies handling sensitive clinical data, with zero breaches across tenure.
Cyber EssentialsISO 27001Zero TrustGxP
AI & Automation
Deployed AI-driven tools and automation workflows that reduced manual IT tasks by 60%, and established responsible AI usage policies aligned with emerging EU AI Act guidance.
AI GovernancePower AutomateLLM OpsRPA
Leadership & Strategy
Scaled IT operations from 2-person team to full department, managed budgets exceeding £1M, and delivered technology roadmaps aligned with business growth across two organisations.
Team BuildingIT StrategyVendor MgmtITIL
Career Timeline
2011
First IT clients, small business support
2014
BSc IT, University of Hertfordshire
2017
IT Manager
2021
Associate Director, IT
2023
Director of IT
Toolkit
Cloud & Identity
Microsoft Azure AWS Microsoft 365 Entra ID Conditional Access Azure AD B2C VMware vSphere Hybrid Cloud
Security & Compliance
Defender XDR Intune Zero Trust Sentinel SIEM DLP Cyber Essentials Plus ISO 27001 GDPR / UK DPA
Automation & AI
PowerShell Power Automate n8n Azure OpenAI Local LLMs MCP Servers RAG Pipelines AI Governance Graph API
Data & Analytics
Azure SQL Azure Data Factory Power BI DAX Metabase PostgreSQL ETL Pipelines
App Development
Swift / SwiftUI Capacitor Node.js REST APIs Cloudflare Pages & Workers App Store Delivery
Infrastructure & Ops
Windows Server Linux Docker xcp-ng Virtualisation Tailscale Networking (VPN / SD-WAN) Terraform CI/CD Pipelines Backup & DR ITIL
Live Demos

Working clones of platforms I’ve built and shipped — same architecture, same UX flows. Synthetic data only, no signup. Click any card to open it.

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Plus Expenses, Operations Dashboards, Reception, Regulatory Intelligence, Policy Assistant, Security Posture, Change Calendar, and Meeting Notes.
Built & Shipped

Products and platforms I build outside the day job. Designed, coded, shipped and run in production, end to end.

Apps
Data & AI Platforms
Data Warehousing · BI

Data Platform & Dashboards

Cloud data warehouse builds on Azure SQL with Data Factory pipelines feeding Power BI reporting, plus a self-hosted Metabase stack over Postgres for operational dashboards.

Azure SQL · Data Factory · Power BI · Metabase
LLM Systems

AI Engineering

Custom MCP servers connecting LLMs to Microsoft 365, SharePoint and infrastructure. A local RAG pipeline over thousands of documents, and agent workflows for transcription, triage and reporting.

MCP · Ollama · Whisper · Qdrant · n8n
Homelab

Self-Hosted Platform

A virtualised home datacentre running the full stack: hypervisor fleet, Docker services, monitoring, analytics, ANPR cameras and this site's tooling, on a zero-trust mesh network.

xcp-ng · Docker · Tailscale · Frigate
Writing
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Let's talk.

Open to conversations about IT strategy, cloud transformation, and AI governance.

a@amrani.uk
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