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Cloud Adoption & Migration
From signed deal to running workloads: workload assessment, landing-zone design, migration sequencing, and the team enablement that keeps adoption alive long after handover.
Rdan Alsadrah Cloud Adoption & Pre-Sales · Riyadh
I've operated the platforms I now design.
At SITE, Saudi Arabia's sovereign cloud provider, I guide enterprises from first RFP to production across cloud infrastructure and AI services. The grounding: four years operating a 300+ host, 4,000+ VM banking private cloud.
Track record
300+
ESXi hosts operated across primary & DR
4,000+
VMs on platforms I ran day-to-day
99.9%
Platform availability maintained across tenure
9
Certifications across VMware, Oracle & ITIL
Now: cloud adoption & pre-sales at SITE · Track record built at Alrajhi Bank & Banque Misr.
01 · What I do
Capabilities measured in outcomes.
One remit, two service lines: cloud infrastructure and AI services, both carried from first conversation to production.
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Sovereign AI Adoption
Use-case scoping through production RAG: LLM inference, embeddings, vector store, reranking, on in-Kingdom infrastructure that clears NCA, SAMA, and PDPL without data leaving the country. Recently benchmarked HUMAIN m3 inference serving — read the report.
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Solution Architecture & Pre-Sales
Discovery, solution design, RFP/RFQ responses, BoQs and SoWs, grounded in operations reality, and positioned to convince technical and commercial stakeholders alike.
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Platform Operations & FinOps
Cost governance, monitoring, disaster-recovery orchestration, runbooks: the operational discipline that keeps platforms healthy after launch. Built from scratch at two banks.
02 · Selected work
All case studies
Real environments. Real constraints.
Cloud Adoption & AI Pre-Sales
Guiding KSA enterprises through adopting SITE Cloud, from discovery and RFP through solution architecture, migration, and onboarding into production. Engagements span solution architecture, migration, and onboarding into production. Engagements span both service lines: cloud infrastructure and the sovereign AI stack, covering LLM inference, RAG pipelines, vision, and document intelligence for government, finance, and regulated industries.
RFP → Prod
Full adoption arc
Cloud + AI
Engagement scope
NCA / SAMA
Compliance positioning
AI Adoption at SITE Cloud
Scoping real AI use cases and building RAG pipelines on in-Kingdom models, taking regulated teams from proof-of-value to production without data ever leaving Saudi Arabia.
In-Kingdom
Data residency
PoV → Prod
Adoption path
HUMAIN m3 Inference Performance Assessment
I had the honor of testing HUMAIN inference serving: 16,126 requests against humain-m3-research-preview on the HUMAIN Node gateway. 21.6 req/s sustained, 11.5k output tok/s peak — full report with scaling curves and production guidance.
21.6 req/s
Sustained throughput
7/10
Production readiness
VMware Platform at Scale: 300+ Hosts, 4,000+ VMs
Designed, ran, and evolved the multi-site private cloud behind core banking systems: vSphere, NSX-T micro-segmentation, VMware Cloud Director multi-tenancy, and SRM-based disaster recovery across primary and DR data centres.
300+
ESXi hosts
4,000+
Virtual machines
99.9%
Availability
03Experience
Mar 2025 – Present
Cloud Adoption & Pre-Sales
SITE · Riyadh
Guiding enterprise customers from discovery and RFP through migration, onboarding, and sovereign AI adoption.
Sep 2024 – Feb 2025
Cloud Specialist
Banque Misr · Riyadh
Stood up and operated OCI for the bank's KSA branch; introduced FinOps and left the internal team autonomous at handover.
Nov 2021 – Aug 2024
Specialist IT Virtualisation
Alrajhi Bank · Riyadh
Designed and operated a 300+ host VMware private cloud serving core banking, subsidiaries, and disaster recovery.
2020 – 2021
Intern / Trainee
Saudi Aramco · Dhahran
Technical internship in IT infrastructure and network operations.
04 · Technical expertise
Depth where it counts.
ACloud Platforms
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Google Cloud Platform
SITE Cloud (sovereign)
vSphere 7 / 8
vSAN
VxRail
BAI & Emerging Technology
LLM Inference
Embeddings
Vector Store
Reranking
RAG Pipelines
Vision (VLM)
Document Intelligence
MLOps
CNetworking & Security
NSX-T
Micro-segmentation
Distributed Firewall
VCN Design
FastConnect
VPN / SD-WAN
IAM Hardening
DAutomation & Operations
FinOps Governance
Monitoring & Alerting
SRM Disaster Recovery
Runbooks & Enablement
ITIL v4
DevOps Foundations
05 · Beyond the job
Built and run outside office hours.
Discipline
The running habit
I run. Consistently. It keeps me honest about what discipline actually looks like, and it's the clearest reminder that showing up every day beats any single performance.
Latest runs WritingNotes from production
Occasional write-ups on what operating infrastructure at scale actually teaches, starting with NSX-T micro-segmentation across 4,000 VMs in a core banking environment.
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I help enterprises scope, design, and adopt: cloud migrations, sovereign AI, and the architecture in between. Straight answers, from someone who has run the platforms.
Based in Riyadh · Working across the GCC & remote