Eleanor Finch
Founder & Platform Strategy Director
Eleanor helps leadership teams connect cloud investment to operating reality, from platform roadmaps to accountable decision-making.
02VPA / 2026
About / People behind the practice
Engineering with care for the people on call.
Vantrel Platform Atelier was founded to make cloud operating models more understandable, durable and useful for the teams who depend on them.
We are a senior cloud infrastructure and platform engineering firm for organisations with complex digital products, regulated workloads and growing engineering teams.
Our work began with a simple observation: cloud foundations are often treated as a one-time technical project, while the teams who depend on them need a legible operating model that keeps making sense as products, people and constraints change.
Vantrel combines architecture, delivery and enablement in the same engagement. We make decisions explicit, build in reviewable increments and leave behind systems that internal teams can maintain and adapt.
We serve organisations across Europe and internationally from our France-based contact location. Our work is delivered with client teams and their existing partners; we do not claim permanent offices beyond that location.
The team / 14 practitioners
Different disciplines. Shared ownership.
Our team brings architecture, security, reliability, delivery and developer experience into the same conversation.
Marcus Ellery
Principal Cloud Architect
Marcus designs resilient multi-account cloud estates with clear network, identity and governance boundaries.
Priya Nanduri
Head of Platform Engineering
Priya turns repeated delivery friction into well-owned developer workflows, templates and self-service paths.
Thomas Wren
Reliability Engineering Lead
Thomas builds practical SLO programmes and incident systems that improve learning rather than amplify noise.
Imogen Vale
Security Architecture Lead
Imogen specialises in secure cloud foundations, least-privilege access models and policy automation.
Daniel Okafor
Kubernetes Practice Lead
Daniel helps teams run container platforms with realistic operational ownership, capacity planning and upgrade discipline.
Harriet Lowe
Cloud Migration Director
Harriet plans low-drama migration programmes around application dependencies, data risk and business continuity.
Jonah Mercer
Observability Engineer
Jonah creates useful telemetry models that help engineers find meaningful signals before customers find failures.
Sofia Bennett
FinOps Consultant
Sofia makes cloud cost visible through allocation design, forecasting practices and engineering-friendly governance.
Lewis Hart
Infrastructure Automation Engineer
Lewis develops dependable infrastructure-as-code patterns that reduce configuration drift and manual intervention.
Amara Collins
Developer Experience Researcher
Amara studies how engineering teams actually work and shapes platform experiences around their everyday constraints.
George Whitfield
Service Delivery Manager
George keeps complex engagements moving through clear milestones, risks, decisions and stakeholder communication.
Natalie Reeves
Cloud Security Engineer
Natalie implements practical controls for secrets, workload identity, audit evidence and secure delivery pipelines.
Owen Carlisle
Technical Writer & Enablement Lead
Owen turns platform decisions into concise documentation, onboarding materials and usable operational guides.
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