Cloud Architecture on Azure
Enterprise Azure design: App Services, Functions, Event Grid, Cosmos DB, storage and queues, networking, RBAC and resource authentication — hybrid on-prem to cloud included.
Christchurch, New Zealand
Daniel Paiva
Solutions Architect
Senior Consultant at Theta (NZ) · Cloud, Integration & AI on Azure
I design and deliver cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure — from architecture and infrastructure-as-code to APIs, integration, and AI workloads — backed by 10+ years shipping production systems end to end.
01 Expertise
Architecture is a breadth discipline. These are the five areas where I go deep.
Integration & APIs
REST API design, Azure API Management policy work, event-driven architecture, microservices, OAuth2/JWT, and integrations with third-party platforms and industrial systems.
Platform Engineering & IaC
My team's main hand on infrastructure-as-code and DevOps: Terraform, Bicep, ARM, Azure DevOps and GitHub pipelines, scripting in Bash and PowerShell, security and SDLC tooling.
AI Engineering
RAG systems, agentic frameworks, live-audio integration and generative-AI workflows — applying enterprise cloud discipline to production AI workloads.
Full-Stack Delivery
C#/.NET 8 microservices, SQL and NoSQL data design, React, Angular and React Native front ends, with test automation from unit to end-to-end (NUnit, Selenium, Playwright-style E2E).
02 Experience
An architect's path: engineering depth, platform ownership, and — earlier in my career — running teams, budgets and operations. I've seen systems from the whiteboard to the balance sheet.
Jun 2023 — Present
Theta (NZ) Senior Software Engineer · Senior Consultant
- Architecture and delivery across Azure: .NET 8 microservices, Docker, API Management, and CI/CD on Azure DevOps and GitHub.
- Owner of the team's IaC and DevOps practice — Terraform, Bicep and ARM — working alongside enterprise architects on networking, security and RBAC.
- Modernisation and security hardening of legacy systems, including an AngularJS-to-React platform port and Angular 14 shared-library work.
Aug 2022 — Jun 2023
Provoke Solutions Senior Software Engineer · Contractor
- Full-stack delivery for North American and APAC clients: Angular 14, .NET 6, Cosmos DB, Azure Web Apps and pipelines.
- Microsoft 365 platform work — SharePoint web parts and extensions, Teams integration, Azure Logic Apps.
May 2022 — Aug 2022
Rush Digital Senior Software Engineer · Contractor
- React Native mobile delivery (iOS and Android) with Redux Toolkit and Auth0 for one of NZ's leading digital agencies.
- Next.js server-side rendering and Sanity content platform integration.
Jan 2020 — May 2022
Clever First Aid Senior Software Engineer
- Built and ran the Azure cloud backbone of a connected IoT product — Web Apps, Functions, WebJobs, queues, blob storage and SQL.
- Supported the Chief Architect on new technology adoption and owned CI/CD across TeamCity, Jenkins and Bitbucket Pipelines.
- Test strategy from unit to end-to-end: NUnit, Moq, Postman/Newman, Selenium and Cucumber.
2017 — 2019
Blue River Dairy Software Engineer Supervisor
- Designed a hybrid architecture spanning on-prem Linux servers and Azure — and led the IT team of three that ran it.
- Integrated industrial production systems into real-time monitoring, reporting and workflow-approval platforms built in .NET Core.
2011 — 2016
Parque Shopping Maceió Operations Manager · Project Supervisor
- Oversaw construction of a high-end shopping mall from day one, then built and ran its operations department from scratch.
- Delivered the leanest operating budget in the development group — the business fluency I now bring to architecture decisions.
03 Credentials
MBA, Project Management
FGV — Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil
Postgraduate Diploma, Information Technology
SIT — Southern Institute of Technology, New Zealand
BEng, Electrical Engineering (Electronics)
UNIFACS — Universidade Salvador, Brazil
Let's talk architecture.
Whether it's a cloud platform to design, a legacy estate to modernise, or an AI workload to take to production — I'm easy to reach.