Azure AI & Cloud Engineer · Adelaide, Australia

I build AI and cloud systems for high-stakes, regulated problems.

Master of Computing & Innovation at the University of Adelaide. Microsoft Azure certified. I design and ship production-grade Azure and AI systems, from agentic document workflows to multi-tenant platforms with real users.

Azure AZ-900University of Adelaide

Selected Work

A few projects I've worked on recently.

Clearance

Azure-native AI platform that automates compliance assessments for regulated SMEs.

Azure Functions FastAPI Cosmos DB Azure AI Document Intelligence +1
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RFP Auto-Responder

RAG system that drafts responses to RFP documents from a private knowledge base.

Python ChromaDB Google Gemini Streamlit
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Envents

Multi-tenant event-management platform serving real organisations and users.

Django Multi-tenant RBAC AWS S3 / CDN Payments
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More work

Research

Academic contributions to the field.

MITRE ATT&CK Coverage Asymmetry

Reproduction and extension of a USENIX Security 2024 paper — adding Microsoft Sentinel analysis to reveal telemetry-driven coverage gaps.

Security Research MITRE ATT&CK Microsoft Sentinel Python +1
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About

I'm Junaid, an AI and cloud engineer based in Adelaide, finishing a Master of Computing & Innovation at the University of Adelaide. I'm Microsoft Azure certified (AZ-900) and I spend most of my time building production-grade systems on Azure: agentic AI workflows, retrieval pipelines over messy documents, and multi-tenant platforms that real people actually use. I like problems where correctness matters, regulated, high-stakes domains where "roughly right" isn't good enough.

Master of Computing & Innovation, University of Adelaide. Graduating December 2026.

JA

Skills & Stack

Cloud — Azure

FunctionsCosmos DBAI Document IntelligenceAzure OpenAI / AI FoundryApp ServiceMicrosoft Sentinel

Cloud — AWS

S3CloudFront/CDN

AI / ML

Retrieval-Augmented GenerationAgentic WorkflowsGPT-4oGeminiEmbeddings & Vector Search (ChromaDB)

Security & Threat Detection

MITRE ATT&CK FrameworkSIEM AnalysisDetection EngineeringSecurity Research

Backend

PythonFastAPIDjangoREST APIs

Foundations & Practice

CI/CDInfrastructure-as-CodeMulti-tenancyRBAC

Certifications

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Areas of active focus: MLOps, Infrastructure-as-Code

Writing

Thoughts on cloud, AI, and engineering.

Draft

Designing an agentic compliance workflow on Azure

How I structured an AI-driven document assessment pipeline for regulated industries.

Coming soon
Draft

RAG over regulatory documents: what actually works

Lessons learned building retrieval-augmented generation for compliance content.

Coming soon
Draft

Multi-tenancy lessons from shipping Envents

What I learned building a multi-tenant platform with real users.

Coming soon

Let's talk.

I'm always open to discussing cloud engineering, AI systems, or interesting problems.

Open to graduate AI and cloud engineering roles in Australia.