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Jignesh Chheda

Modern Workplace Architect · Mumbai

Hi, I'm Jignesh.
I make Microsoft 365 just work at enterprise scale.

I'm a Microsoft 365 architect in Mumbai. Banks, insurers and large enterprises call me when they want to move to the cloud, tighten identity and device security, or migrate tenants without anyone losing a day of work. Half a million people use what I've built. Most never notice. That's the point.

  • Security by design
  • Cloud done right
  • Tenant migrations at scale
  • AI with guardrails
Open to engagements
Jignesh Chheda

Modern Workplace Architect

FocusCloud · Security · AI
BaseMumbai · IST
Scale500K+ users, 75+ rollouts
Identity & Devices Collaboration Security & AI
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Years in enterprise IT
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Users migrated
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Enterprise engagements
BFSI
Banks, insurers & AMCs

What I design

Digitization, security, cloud and AI. One standard: it has to survive production.

Identity & Devices

Identity and device architecture

Entra ID design, Conditional Access models, Intune device management across Windows, macOS and Linux, and Autopilot provisioning that scales past the pilot.

  • Entra ID
  • Intune
  • Conditional Access
  • Autopilot
Migrations

Tenant migrations and modernization

Tenant-to-tenant moves, Exchange and Teams transitions, and SharePoint restructuring, planned in milestones with rollback paths and zero surprises for end users.

  • Tenant-to-tenant
  • Exchange Online
  • Teams
  • SharePoint
Security

Security and compliance

Purview information protection, Defender workloads and Zero Trust baselines built for regulated environments, with BFSI audit expectations designed in from day one.

  • Purview
  • Defender
  • Zero Trust
  • BFSI compliance
Now building · AI & Automation Lab

AI for the modern workplace, grounded in governance

Copilot for Microsoft 365 readiness done in the right order: Purview data governance first, licences second. Azure OpenAI assistants grounded on tenant knowledge for IT operations. AI-generated media (video walkthroughs, adoption visuals, end-user campaign assets) that cuts the cost of change management. Every experiment here targets a deployment problem I have met in the field.

  • Copilot readiness
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Agentic IT ops
  • AI media for adoption
Off the clock

Teacher and traveller

Guest lecturer on cloud computing at Mumbai engineering colleges. Travel writing at Roaming Footprints. Both make the architecture diagrams better.

How I work

The habits behind eleven years of designs that did not come back broken

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Design for the worst day

Every architecture assumes an auditor, an outage and an attacker will all show up eventually. The design has to answer all three before go-live, not after the incident review.

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Decisions over documents

Architecture documents record the trade-offs, not just the outcome. The client's own engineers should be able to operate, extend and defend the design without me in the room.

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End users are the real SLA

A migration nobody noticed is a successful migration. Pilot rings, rollback paths and plain-language communication are part of the architecture, not an afterthought.

Field notes

Writing from real deployments

Configuration patterns, migration lessons and security baselines, written after they worked, not before.

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