Independent consultancy · Michael Hill, Principal

Secure cloud and software, engineered to last.

M.R.H. Consultants Inc. designs, builds, and hardens enterprise systems — from AWS cloud architecture and Government of Canada security compliance to full-stack software. Thirty years of hands-on delivery, from one senior engineer who does the work.

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Expertise

Deep across the whole stack — cloud, security, and code.

Most consultants specialize in one layer. Three decades of hands-on work across infrastructure, security, and application development means the architecture and the implementation come from the same person.

Cloud Architecture

AWS Landing Zone Accelerator, multi-account governance, and hybrid integration across AWS, Azure, and GCP — with Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD baked in.

Security & Compliance

Government of Canada CCCS guardrails, Authority to Operate (ATO), automated security response, and cross-domain solutions bridging multiple security-classification networks.

Full-Stack Software

Java, Spring & Spring Boot, and Hibernate on the back end; Angular, React, and modern JavaScript on the front — a hands-on full-stack developer building, upgrading, and performance-tuning high-availability n-tier applications for government and enterprise.

AI Solutions

Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic Claude — governed document pipelines, least-privilege security, and full audit traceability for public-sector data.

Data Migration & Automation

Large-scale migrations into Microsoft Dataverse, PowerShell and Azure Functions pipelines, and Python/boto3 operational tooling built with dry-run safety and checkpointed recovery.

Blockchain Infrastructure

Solana-based decentralized-storage node fleets with full deployment automation, plus on-chain token, staking, and governance programs in Rust/Anchor.

Experience

Trusted on systems that can't fail.

Three decades architecting and delivering secure, high-availability systems for government, public-sector, and enterprise clients across Canada, the U.S., and internationally — the kind where downtime, a security gap, or a botched migration is not an option.

Global Affairs Canada National Defence Health Canada Fisheries and Oceans Canada Correctional Service Canada Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Courts Administration Service Public Health Agency of Canada Public Services and Procurement Canada Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada IBM Cognos Incorporated CSX Transportation Communications Data Group, Inc. New Zealand Police

Credentials

◆30+ years of hands-on architecture and development — since 1993, incorporated as M.R.H. Consultants Inc. in 1996.
◆Queen's University — B.Sc. (Honours), Computing & Information Science and Mathematics.
◆AWS Certified — Cloud Practitioner & Solutions Architect – Associate · Sun Certified Java Programmer.
◆Bilingual-compliant delivery aligned to federal IT, accessibility, and records standards.

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Also certified — Sun Certified Java Programmer (Java SE)

Products

I don't just advise — I ship.

Alongside client work, M.R.H. Consultants Inc. builds and operates its own software — privacy-first tools engineered to the same standard as the systems I deliver for government.

The Attic — software built to keep your data yours.

A growing family of privacy-first desktop tools that gather the decades of email, photos, documents, messages and contacts scattered across your exports, backups and old drives into one organized, local archive. It never logs into your accounts — nothing is ever uploaded.

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The Attic family

EmailAttic — decades of email into one archive · available now
PictureAttic · DocAttic · ChatAttic · ContactAttic — coming
100% local — your data never leaves your computer

Michael Hill

Principal Consultant & Software Engineer

Cloud architecture · Application security
Enterprise Java & Spring · AI/RAG
Data migration · DevOps & automation
Manotick, Ontario · Canada

About

M.R.H. Consultants Inc. is me — and that's the point.

When you engage M.R.H. Consultants Inc., you get the senior engineer, not a pitch deck and a hand-off to juniors. I architect the solution and I write the code — from infrastructure-as-code and network security design through to full-stack application development and performance tuning.

That combination is rare. It means one person who understands how the cloud, the security posture, and the application actually fit together — so the design is realistic, the build is clean, and nothing gets lost in translation between architecture and implementation.

And when a project is bigger than one person, I scale up without handing you off — drawing on a trusted network of independent senior consultants I've collaborated with for years. You get a team's depth and capacity when you need it, with me still accountable for the work.

Three decades in, I still do this because I like the hard problems: modernizing legacy systems, securing sensitive government data, and building software that people can trust for the long haul.