Claus Konrad

AI Architect · Cloud Architect · Anthropic & Claude Ecosystem · Azure

28+years in IT

19active certifications

10roles since 1998

About

AI architect with 28+ years in IT, focused on applied and agentic AI built on Claude — Claude Code, the Claude API, MCP servers, the whole ecosystem — and grounded in a long career architecting cloud solutions across Azure, GCP, and OCI. I started out as a developer, and that foundation still shows in how I work: I'd rather build something and understand it properly than just read about it.

Work style

I pick the platform that fits the problem, not whatever's trendy, and I stay hands-on end to end — from the first workshop through to what's actually running in production. I mentor developers, help international colleagues settle into cross-border teams, and I'm usually the person product owners and sponsors call when they want a straight answer instead of a yes.

International

International work is the thread running through my whole career — consultancy in the UK and Canada (Itergy), client delivery in the Netherlands, US, Germany and the Nordics (Omada, Valtech), and now daily multi-country collaboration at EPAM. I run workshops, architecture sessions, design reviews and hiring interviews in English alongside multinational teams and clients.

Key strengths

Turning business goals into technical solutions that actually scale

Owning the whole architecture, from first proposal to what ships

Running workshops and planning sessions people don't dread

Sparring partner for product owners, sponsors and tech leads

Mentoring developers and cross-functional teams

International hiring interviews and onboarding

Coaching English for international colleagues

Working across countries and time zones

Core competencies

Cloud Platforms

Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AWS

IaC & DevOps

Terraform Azure DevOps GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipelines Docker

Architecture

Cloud-Native Backends Microservices AI & Agentic Systems Event-Driven Architecture Logic Apps / Power Automate REST / JSON / HTTP QUERY APIs

AI & Cognitive

Anthropic Claude (API, Claude Code) MCP server design Agentic tooling Azure AI Services Machine Learning Conversational AI

Development

.NET / .NET Core (C#) TypeScript / JavaScript WebAPI SQL

Leadership

Technical Mentorship Workshops & Design Sessions Stakeholder Management International Hiring

Human Languages

Danish (Native) English (Full Professional) Norwegian (Working) Swedish (Working)