Clemens Kaserer
Manager · Cloud Engineering at Avanade
Engineering leader & Azure platform architect — AI-augmented delivery for regulated enterprises
📍 Vienna, Austria · ckaserer.dev · linkedin.com/in/ckaserer · github.com/ckaserer
Cloud engineering manager with a decade in Azure, leading delivery for regulated enterprises across finance, public sector and logistics. I architect and engineer Azure platforms and embed AI-augmented delivery on top, making AI tooling production-safe at organisational scale — equally at home in the architecture review and the commercial conversation about what to build and what it's worth.
- Initiated and lead Avanade's regional GitHub Copilot adoption — treated as a change problem, not a tooling one: a shared, compliance-ready platform now reaching up to 32 engineers a week, and being packaged as a client offering.
- Delivered 4+ enterprise Azure landing zones (single- and multi-tenant, Cloud Adoption Framework) running 50+ workloads for regulated clients.
- Led an AI-augmented digital-twin MVP for an industrial-logistics client, delivered at roughly 3× the pace of a traditional build.
- Active across 5+ competitive enterprise and public-sector tenders in 2026 (DACH), including on-site client negotiation — contributing solution design and cloud-governance responses.
- Co-built AI "architecture-decision" agents for legacy modernization, recognized cross-border within Avanade as a high-value asset.
- Lead cloud engineering delivery across multiple concurrent enterprise engagements in finance, public sector and logistics — running architecture reviews, mentoring engineers and building the practice.
- Standardize AKS / OpenShift, Functions and Web Apps delivery on infrastructure-as-code and pipelines, with spec-driven and agentic AI workflows.
- Built AKS platforms with Terraform / Bicep and GitOps delivery, leading a team of up to 15
- Established trunk-based development and pipeline-as-code on GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps
- Architected and operated multi-tenant Kubernetes / OpenShift platforms for production SaaS and enterprise customers, leading a team of 3–5.
- Automated provisioning with Terraform and Helm — environments in minutes, not days.
- Introduced GitOps and pipeline-driven delivery across product teams.
- Progressed across three levels delivering Azure migration, platform and DevOps engagements for enterprise clients across the DACH region, leading a team of 4 as Cloud Specialist.
- Designed Azure topologies and CI/CD pipelines and mentored junior analysts on Azure and DevOps practice.
- Operated HPC clusters with RDMA 10 GbE interconnects; puppetised a cluster and built a job-performance feedback framework.
- Software development (C#, PHP) plus Windows / Linux server and network administration; promoted to deputy network administrator.
Azure & Platform: Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), Azure Landing Zones (ALZ), Sovereign LZ, Azure Policy & Governance, Networking, Monitor, FinOps
Cloud-Native & Containers: AKS, OpenShift / ARO, Kubernetes, Azure Functions, Web Apps, Container Apps
Automation & DevOps: Terraform, Bicep, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Helm, GitOps, Python, PowerShell, Bash
AI-Augmented Engineering: GitHub Copilot enablement at scale, Claude Code, spec-driven & agentic workflows, MCP, AI governance & compliance
Leadership & Practice: Engineering Management, Mentoring & Coaching, Enablement & Adoption, Architecture Reviews, DevSecOps, Client Engagement & FinOps
Microsoft: Azure Solutions Architect (Expert · 2025) · DevOps Engineer (Expert · 2025) · Azure Network Engineer (Associate · 2023) · Azure Administrator (Associate · 2023)
GitHub: GitHub Actions (2026) · GitHub Copilot (2025) · GitHub Foundations (2025)
Leadership: Der Samurai Manager Basic (Executive Leadership Seminar · 2021)
German — Native· English — Fluent