About
Cloud, APIs, and the messy middle of digital transformation.
I’m Duo (Neo) J. — a technology enthusiast and cloud solutions architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise infrastructure. My work sits at the intersection of cloud platforms, API ecosystems, AI integrations, DevOps practices, and the regulated reality of running production estates.
In my current role as a Principal Pre-Sales Architect for SaaS solutions, I help organizations navigate complex technical landscapes — translating dense technical solutions into clear value propositions that line up with the actual business problem. Increasingly, that means meeting customers where AI fits into their stack: how to ground it in their data, how to deploy it safely, and how to make sure it actually moves a metric. I spend my days moving between deep architecture discussions and the strategic conversations that decide what gets built.
I learn in public, write at blog.duoj.au, and I’m most useful to teams who are part of the way through a transformation and need someone to help them name what’s actually in their way.
Practice areas
What I work on.
Cloud & Infrastructure
- · AWS
- · Microsoft Azure
- · VMware
- · Nutanix
- · Kubernetes
API & Integration
- · API Management & Gateway
- · AI Gateway & LLM Routing
- · API Security & Threat Protection
- · API Monetization & DX
- · Multi-gateway Governance
Applied AI
- · Agentic application design
- · RAG & grounded retrieval
- · Tool use & function calling
- · LLM evaluation & guardrails
DevOps & Automation
- · CI/CD pipelines
- · Infrastructure as Code
- · Container orchestration
- · Configuration management
Data Center
- · Enterprise storage
- · Server & virtualization
- · Network architecture
- · DR & high availability
Security & Networking
- · Palo Alto NGFW
- · Cisco networking
- · Meraki cloud-managed
- · Avaya communications
Certifications
Receipts.
A pragmatic snapshot — kept current, not exhaustive.
AWS
- · Certified Solutions Architect — Professional
- · Certified Security — Specialty
- · Certified Data Engineer — Associate
Microsoft Azure
- · Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- · MCSA: Office 365
Other
- · VMware VCP-DCV
- · KCNA — Kubernetes & Cloud Native Associate
- · Databricks Lakehouse Platform Accreditation
- · Cisco CCNA Security, Routing & Switching
- · Palo Alto Systems Engineer (PSE)