Robert Felkins

Architect

Felkins Technology Partners (Architect4Hire.com)

Founder and principal architect delivering fractional architecture and hands-on engineering leadership for cloud-native platforms. Balance strategic direction with direct implementation, code ownership, and technical governance.

• Led design of modern .NET 9/10 service architectures across distributed systems, with an active evolution path toward .NET 10.
• Designed Cosmos DB partition, indexing, and schema strategies for high-throughput, multi-tenant workloads.
• Built an Azure Functions compute layer for async processing, projections, messaging orchestration, and data sync over Service Bus.
• Decomposed legacy ASP.NET Core APIs into domain-aligned microservices with resilient messaging and independent deployment.
• Delivered secure Angular 16+ portals and admin apps for operational workflows, content moderation, and dashboards.
• Drove GitHub Copilot and .NET Aspire adoption through real proof-of-concept work, improving velocity and architectural consistency.
• Architected an AI-assisted multi-brand content platform (.NET 10 / Angular 19, .NET Aspire, OpenAI, Venice.ai) with a layered prompt-memory system across six brands and a full developer handoff.

Technical Environment: .NET 9/10, ASP.NET Core, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Service Bus, AKS, Angular, TypeScript, microservices & event-driven architecture, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Copilot

Solutions Architect

FrankCrum

Delivered scalable enterprise platforms for payroll and employee systems, combining hands-on engineering with architectural leadership across APIs, front-ends, and cloud messaging.

• Introduced TOGAF-aligned practices — C4 diagrams, design artifacts, delivery plans — and ran cross-team architecture forums.
• Evolved monolithic services into domain-aligned microservices with resilient, event-driven APIs on AKS.
• Architected a distributed notification and integration framework on Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions.
• Modernized service hosting with .NET Aspire for better observability and local development.
• Led org-wide GitHub Copilot and .NET Aspire onboarding via workshops and Lunch & Learns.

Technical Environment: C#, .NET 6–10, ASP.NET Core, AKS, Azure Functions, Service Bus, SQL Server, TOGAF, Copilot, .NET Aspire

.NET Team Lead

Wilco Source

Designed and led a suite of microservices transforming and mapping insurance and medical data across payloads. Active in the .NET community of excellence on microservice architecture and practices.

Technical Environment: C#, .NET Core 6, SQL Server, Kafka, Azure (AKS)

Azure / .NET Solutions Architect

Onlife Health

Designed an Azure Functions proof of concept for a cloud migration with three senior developers; contributed to the cloud-readiness program on Azure architecture and practices.

Technical Environment: Azure, Azure Advisor, App Services, Azure Functions, Application Insights, Azure DevOps

Cloud Solutions Architect

CAI

Owned infrastructure architecture and design artifacts for Azure solutions. Optimized the Azure landscape for cost, security, and reliability, consolidating 25+ discrete subscriptions into a central enterprise subscription.

Technical Environment: Azure, Azure Advisor, App Services, AKS, Azure SQL, Application Insights, Azure DevOps

Solutions Architect

Medline, LP

Delivered master-data and data-quality solutions with high-level system designs, integration requirements, and architecture artifacts. Led the Enterprise Product Recall project — digitizing a manual recall process — and mentored three junior developers in .NET Core microservices. Built a POC regulatory content-monitoring system (ASP.NET Core 3.1 microservices, Angular).

Technical Environment: Angular, TypeScript, ASP.NET Core, SOA, event-driven architecture, Azure DevOps, AKS, cloud services

Architect

MVCWizards, Inc.

Founder and principal architect leading end-to-end solutions and teams of up to six. Modernized Confident Kitchen onto .NET Core and AKS (Redis, Cosmos DB, Service Bus); led modernization at Fidelity Life Association, including an enterprise SSO system, automated policy processing, and WebForms-to-.NET Core migration standards.

Technical Environment: Angular, TypeScript, ASP.NET Core, SOA, RabbitMQ, Azure, Cosmos DB, KnockoutJS, AKS, GitHub

Team Lead / Architect

CDW

Designed and maintained core interfaces powering CDW.com and partner integrations. Led three developers to build Partner Services for B2B integration with Xerox and Spiceworks; helped unify two legacy WebForms apps into a modern MVC line-of-business platform.

Technical Environment: ASP.NET MVC 5, Web API 2, Autofac, SOA, modular/DDD design, jQuery, Bootstrap 3, Team Foundation Server 2012