Building cloud infrastructure by day, running companies by night, and filming the whole mess.
I architect cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The technical foundation everything else runs on. Automation pipelines, distributed systems, security first thinking across industries.
Terraform, Kubernetes, the whole stack. I build systems that scale quietly and break rarely. Mostly.
"The best infrastructure is the kind nobody thinks about. Until it's gone."
Anurag Bains, Cloud Engineer
I founded Codex Corp, a Canadian holding company. Four companies, each doing something completely different. It made sense at the time.
Selected Work
Cloud engineering. Software. Founding. Creating.
Planned and executed the full migration of 340 corporate Windows devices from on-premise SCCM to Microsoft Intune across 12 dealer locations. Deployed Autopilot zero-touch provisioning and Conditional Access via Entra ID.
Led cloud migration architecture for KPU's 400+ on-premise server estate to Azure. Designed hub-and-spoke VNet topology, provisioned ExpressRoute, and implemented Azure Site Recovery — achieving a 28% infrastructure cost reduction.
Migrated 1,200 staff and student devices to Intune-managed MDM and deployed Entra ID SSO across district applications. Implemented Conditional Access policies enforcing MFA and device compliance for all remote access.
Designed and built the five-site multi-brand website ecosystem for Codex Corp. Static HTML/CSS deployed across five Cloudflare Pages subdomains with a shared design token system, per-OpCo brand themes, and CI/CD pipeline.
Designed Azure AD B2B federation and identity governance for a government-adjacent deployment. Enabled secure contractor access, just-in-time privileged identity provisioning, and automated access reviews aligned to RCMP IT security policy.
Personal home lab running Proxmox VE with a Kubernetes cluster, automated with Ansible and Terraform. A continuous learning environment for cloud-native patterns, GitOps workflows, and IaC tooling before production client deployments.
Running The Bains Mode YouTube channel documenting the journey of being a cloud engineer, multi-company founder, and creator simultaneously. Content covers cloud certs, building Codex Corp, and honest takes on tech careers and entrepreneurship.
Executed a full Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration for Delta SD — moving 4,200 accounts, shared mailboxes, SharePoint libraries, and Teams channels from legacy Office 365 GCC to M365 Education A3 with zero data loss in a 72-hour cutover.
Where I document the whole thing. The companies, the career, the wins, the L's. Unfiltered and unscripted.
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Anurag Bains
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