Mustafa Kara is an accomplished thought leader in IT Infrastructure space with 20+ years of experience in enterprise workloads and deep technical expertise on the business and technical value of cloud service models and architectures. He is a long-standing champion of Microsoft infrastructure on premise and cloud technologies. He has worked with broader range of large and mid-market enterprises in Financial Services, Manufacturing and Distribution Industries, Government and Internet companies. Mustafa’s proven ability for interpreting current enterprise challenges and developing solutions to address and maximize his client’s ROI while navigating the shifts in the industry has earned him the respect and loyalty of his peers in current and past employs. With his deep technical expertise across Microsoft Azure Services (Compute, Networking, Storage, Databases, Containers, Enterprise Integration, Security + Identity, Monitoring + Management) Mustafa is awarded Microsoft Azure MVP for 4 times and also awarded total MVP for 13 times. Mustafa is also an AWS Certified Solution Architect. Mustafa has been working as a director at Simplix Technology, which he founded, since 2020.Mustafa was recruited by Comparex in 2016 to serve as a Technical Manager to lead Microsoft Presales and Delivery Team. His primary charge is to engage with Microsoft's clients and provide technical thought leadership and direction to help achieve cloud based workload deployments and migrations using Microsoft Azure. Throughout his long standing career in BilgeAdam, Mustafa managed complex projects and large teams. He is also committed to lead Microsoft technical community by speaking in the broader industry events, publishing in his blog, whitepapers, reference architectures in the area of expertise. As a lifetime learner, Mustafa holds an MBA and a Masters Degree in Computer Science with cloud related various awards and technical credentials. Currently he holds more than 20+ Microsoft and other vendors certifications.