Don Milligan – Cloud Management Consultant | Senior Google Cloud + Azure Architect

IT Management | Architecture | Engineering

Come and find out why these businesses have trusted me with their critical workloads.

I provide complete turnkey solutions across Professional Services, AI and Machine Learning, Cloud, Application Development, Infrastructure, and Information Security.

About

Hi, I’m Don, a Senior AI/ML/Cloud Architect and Fractional Technology Leader with sixteen year success record. Clients turn to me when they need a hard worker who can solve complex problems, deliver with speed and precision, and do it across multiple domains. I’ve been academically gifted since a young age, and matured into working with successful startups, SMEs, and enterprises like TELUS, Google, IBM, JP Morgan, CDW, and Walt Disney P&R.

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Services

Professional Services

Technology Business Leadership and Consulting, Enterprise Architectures, Project and Startup Planning, Fractional Executive supplementation

AI and ML

I have architected and engineered agentic AI solutions, machine learning models and training, as well as RAG model LLMs, AI infrastructure, MLOps, AIOps, and Bittensor solutions.

Emergency Response

We’ve been there during the darkest hours with some of our clients, and most often it’s because we were hired to help protect them when it happened. I

Cloud

Full coverage on all cloud platforms, from classic installations to hybrid and decentralized architectures, I’ve held cloud certifications and worked with top Cloud Partners.

Startup Consulting

I have first hand experience preparing for and navigating funding, bringing ideas to market, and building businesses after products are launched.

Security & Governance

Meet standards like ISO 27001 and SOC2, protect data with GDPR and HIPPA, or implement DevSecOps with your CI/CD pipelines.

Development

Applications, Web, Dashboards AI agents, APIs, user interfaces (UI/UX), and more. I have built countless scalable apps and world class CI/CD to support them.

Data & Analytics

From BigQuery and Azure Synapse Analytics, to ETL/ELT pipelines, data preparation, and data engineering – I have the expertise to fit your big data requirements.

DevOps

Highly-scalable highly-available apps and services running Docker and Kubernetes, as well as infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform and Bicep.

Success Stories

...We truly appreciate Don's contributions and would not hesitate to work with Don again or recommend him to others seeking a reliable and highly capable IT professional.

Cloud Pathfinder Services Inc. played a pivotal role in helping Insycle design and engineer a bestpractice architecture and achieve SOC 2 Type 2 compliance across our platform.

It’s my pleasure to offer my unreserved recommendation for Don Milligan for expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and services he delivered to Nordcloud, an IBM Company.

Don was the key architect of our cloud solution and he went the extra mile to ensure the robustness of our cloud solution. Don was an absolute pleasure to work with and we would have no hesitation in working with again for future projects.

Don's meticulous planning ensures no detail is overlooked which greatly increases the chances of a project being successful. We simply cannot say enough wonderful things about working with Don and would highly recommend him.

He not only led the CPS team in delivering a scalable, high-availability platform—on time and under pressure—but also demonstrated a rare willingness to learn our blockchain stack, particularly Bittensor, and help structure our tokenomics to align with our economic goals.

Without a doubt, Don’s involvement in this project has had a huge positive impact on the quality of our platform.