About Richard
I’m a senior cloud & infrastructure architect with 15+ years of real-world infrastructure experience. Cloud and AI are my tools — infrastructure is my foundation.
I help companies design, migrate, and run production-grade cloud and hybrid environments that are stable, secure, and financially under control. I don’t sell experiments, vendor hype, or half-baked architectures. I deliver systems that survive growth, audits, and bad days.
Alongside infrastructure, I build AI-ready platforms and production AI workloads, including RAG & LLM architectures on Vertex AI — always grounded in solid networking, identity, security, and operations.
What I deliver
• 15+ years in infrastructure (on-prem, VMware, HCI, enterprise environments)
• Google Cloud Partner | Professional Cloud Architect | AI/ML specialization
• Cloud & hybrid architectures that scale without exploding costs
• Infrastructure automation (Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD) — no manual snowflakes
• High availability, disaster recovery, and uptime-first design
• AI platforms that are operationally sound, not just demos
Proven results
• On-prem → GCP migrations delivering ~35% cost reduction
• End-to-end RAG / LLM platforms built and deployed on Vertex AI
• Infrastructure automation cutting delivery time from weeks to hours
• VMware vSphere & VxRail implementations with 99.99% uptime
Who I work with
Companies that:
• run business-critical infrastructure
• want cloud done properly, not rushed
• need a senior technical owner, not a babysitter
Engagements
Freelance / B2B. Remote-first.
I work hands-on as an architect, problem solver, or technical lead — brought in to fix, modernize, or scale infrastructure and AI platforms.
If you want infra that actually holds your AI and cloud workloads together, we’ll work well.
English
Native or bilingual
Czech
Native or bilingual
Slovak
Fluent
Polish
Fluent
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Cloudpeakify | Google Cloud PartnerCloud Architecture Consultant b2bARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNINGJanuary 2021 - Today (5 years and 5 months)Prague, CzechiaWindows AD & Microsoft InfrastructureMigrated and consolidated large AD environments (thousands of users) with zero downtime. Reduced login issues and support tickets by 25%. Automated DNS/DHCP/WSUS via GPO, saving 10+ hours/month. Delivered secure, audit-ready AD for critical systems.VMware & HCILed VxRail HCI deployments, increasing virtualization by 60% and cutting hardware by 40%. Operated multi-cluster vSphere HA/DR with 99.99% uptime. Optimized ESXi, snapshots, and storage for stability and cost.Google Cloud & ArchitectureGoogle Cloud PCA. Designed Terraform + Kubernetes platforms, reducing provisioning from weeks to hours. Led on-prem → GCP migrations, cutting costs by ~35% via autoscaling and right-sizing. Hybrid & multi-cloud focused.Machine Learning & GenAIBuilt production RAG / LLM solutions on Vertex AI. Automated ML workflows in Python. Focus on AI that runs reliably on real infrastructure.Kubernetes & CI/CD SecurityRan HA Kubernetes handling 10× traffic spikes without downtime. Secured CI/CD (Git, Jenkins, Ansible), cutting deploys from 2h to 5m.IAMImplemented least-privilege AD + GCP IAM, zero critical audit findings, 30% fewer incidents.Professional ApproachSenior infra-first architect. On-prem, cloud, hybrid. Brought in to fix, modernize, and scale business-critical systems.
- TietoEVRYLead Customer ArchitectNovember 2019 - December 2022 (3 years and 1 month)Trusted advisor for customer Creating service development ideas to customer plan Initiate projects (roadmap related) or sales activities (new services) for customer Participate in customer development initiatives/projects and major changes Accountable for customer-specific architecture roadmap and documentation down to high-level designs Participation in planning sessions and conferences with customers and partners Responsible for creating high-level designs for solutions Understand application and system architecture while delivering architectural design Participation in planning sessions and conferences with customers and partnersArchitectural and technology support for customer team in running and developing customer production environments (supporting MIMs, Changes, Problems)
- OKIN BPS / Verizon Enterprise SolutionsCloud Service Design and ImplementationsFebruary 2016 - January 2017 (11 months)Quality Hotel Ostrava City, Ostrava, VK, CzechiaAssigned responsibility for determining and reviewing technical solutions Responsibility for implementing managed hosting solution for Windows and VMware platforms Consulting and designing cloud requirements Solution for new and existing customers Gathering and creating documentation for new servers installation (Cisco, HP and DELL) Configuring and managing VMware vSphere environments Management of SAN & NAS infrastructure Configuring, managing and maintaining of EMC / HP 3PAR storagesPerforming tests in VMware lab environment
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Education
- Electrical and Electronics EngineeringSPSE Frenstat pod Radhostem2004Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- ITIL v3 foundation Certified infoblox Core Administrator v6 Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation Professional Cloud Architect Certification Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and ProcessITIL v3 foundation Certified infoblox Core Administrator v6 Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation Professional Cloud Architect Certification Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process
Certifications
- Google Cloud ArchitectGoogle2025
- Build with Vertex Technical Expert Badgegoogle2025