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Cloud Architect with 13+ years of enterprise IT experience, leading cloud solution design, presales, and large-scale migrations across AWS, Azure, VMware, and Red Hat. Expertise includes landing zone deployments, multi-account governance (AWS Control Tower/Organizations), and application migrations using rehost/replatform/refactor/containerization approaches. Strong background in cloud security and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS), DR/BC planning, and DevOps automation with GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, and Jenkins. Comfortable delivering TCO/ROI and cloud readiness assessments for technical and CxO stakeholders, and mentoring teams across concurrent migration workstreams.…Cloud Architect with 13+ years of enterprise IT experience, leading cloud solution design, presales, and large-scale migrations across AWS, Azure, VMware, and Red Hat. Expertise includes landing zone deployments, multi-account governance (AWS Control Tower/Organizations), and application migrations using rehost/replatform/refactor/containerization approaches. Strong background in cloud security and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS), DR/BC planning, and DevOps automation with GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, and Jenkins. Comfortable delivering TCO/ROI and cloud readiness assessments for technical and CxO stakeholders, and mentoring teams across concurrent migration workstreams.

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Cloud Architect with 13+ years of enterprise IT experience, leading cloud solution design, presales, and large-scale migrations across AWS, Azure, VMware, and Red Hat. Expertise includes landing zone deployments, multi-account governance (AWS Control Tower/Organizations), and application migrations using rehost/replatform/refactor/containerization approaches. Strong background in cloud security and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS), DR/BC planning, and DevOps automation with GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, and Jenkins. Comfortable delivering TCO/ROI and cloud readiness assessments for technical and CxO stakeholders, and mentoring teams across concurrent migration workstreams.…Cloud Architect with 13+ years of enterprise IT experience, leading cloud solution design, presales, and large-scale migrations across AWS, Azure, VMware, and Red Hat. Expertise includes landing zone deployments, multi-account governance (AWS Control Tower/Organizations), and application migrations using rehost/replatform/refactor/containerization approaches. Strong background in cloud security and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS), DR/BC planning, and DevOps automation with GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, and Jenkins. Comfortable delivering TCO/ROI and cloud readiness assessments for technical and CxO stakeholders, and mentoring teams across concurrent migration workstreams.

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Cloud Architect with 13+ years of enterprise IT experience, leading cloud solution design, presales, and large-scale migrations across AWS, Azure, VMware, and Red Hat. Expertise includes landing zone deployments, multi-account governance (AWS Control Tower/Organizations), and application migrations using rehost/replatform/refactor/containerization approaches.

Strong background in cloud security and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS), DR/BC planning, and DevOps automation with GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, and Jenkins. Comfortable delivering TCO/ROI and cloud readiness assessments for technical and CxO stakeholders, and mentoring teams across concurrent migration workstreams.

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Cloud Architect – Solution Design, Migration & Presales at Northbay Solutions

March 1, 2025 - Present

Architected AWS landing zone deployments using AWS Control Tower across 5+ client environments, including multi-account structures with automated account vending, SCPs, and security guardrails to reduce manual provisioning effort by ~60%. Led multi-account AWS Organizations designs using OU hierarchies and least-privilege governance aligned to AWS Well-Architected Framework. Managed on-premises-to-AWS migrations using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) for 60+ servers, covering wave planning, dependency mapping, replication monitoring, cutover execution, and rollback procedures. Configured and validated AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) for 3+ environments with defined RTO/RPO targets and DR runbooks. Improved security posture by enforcing IAM least privilege and enabling CloudTrail, AWS Config, GuardDuty, and Security Hub aligned to ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS for financial sector clients. Supported presales, discovery workshops, RFP responses, solution architecture presentat

Deputy Manager – Virtualization & Cloud Services at Interloop Ltd

July 1, 2022 - March 1, 2025

Managed hybrid environment spanning VMware vCenter 7 (200+ VMs) and AWS, improving resource utilization by ~25% using performance tuning, rightsizing, and capacity planning. Designed and deployed a three-tier AWS architecture (ALB/EC2/RDS) with serverless components (Lambda/SQS) and a 6-node Docker Swarm cluster, improving availability by ~25% and scalability by ~40%. Implemented Veeam Backup & Replication across production workloads, reducing RTO by ~40% and achieving ~99.9% backup success rate. Built GitLab CI/CD for infrastructure deployments, reducing deployment cycle time by ~70% and defects by ~90%. Automated configuration and patching across 50+ servers with Ansible across hybrid Windows/Linux estate. Rolled out Trend Micro Cloud One Workload Security with XDR, reducing active malware threats by ~70% in first week. Contributed to ISO 27001 by hardening 200+ servers and closing security findings; supported SOC 2 compliance control alignment. Provisioned and managed Kubernetes clu

Manager – Networks at The University of Faisalabad

February 1, 2018 - June 1, 2022

Maintained ~99.99% uptime across 5 sites for 5,000+ users, managing Cisco switching, MikroTik routing, site-to-site VPNs, and SD-WAN integration for hybrid cloud. Introduced FreePBX (Asterisk) voice solution for call centers, reducing telephony costs by ~40% and enabling voice recording. Implemented Zabbix monitoring with Grafana dashboards and Zammad ticketing for 40+ servers, reducing average incident resolution time by ~35%. Reduced IT/network costs by ~50% via hardware consolidation, vendor negotiation, and ISP contract renegotiation. Migrated multiple workloads to AWS within three months to increase scalability by ~30%. Managed VMware ESXi deployments and virtualization, reducing downtime by ~15% and improving performance by ~20%. Improved productivity by ~20% using agile project management and stakeholder engagement.

IT Consultant at GMSA

January 1, 2018 - May 1, 2023

Designed and deployed wireless network and firewall infrastructure delivering ~300 Mbps throughput and sub-5ms latency using Cisco solutions. Delivered VMware vSphere 6.7 deployment within one week (about 30% ahead of client timeline) and deployed Windows Server 2019 with Active Directory and RDS, reducing login time from ~60 minutes to under 5 minutes. Reduced client IT budget by ~50% through vendor negotiation, license rationalization, and ISP restructuring. Deployed Layer 3 networks using MikroTik routers, achieving site isolation and improved security/data flow across multiple locations.

IT Manager at Roots IVY International School System

February 1, 2013 - February 1, 2018

Designed and deployed wireless network with pfSense firewall, reducing ISP dependency by ~50% and increasing bandwidth from ~8 Mbps to ~30 Mbps. Maintained ~99.9% uptime and reduced IT spend by ~25% via vendor consolidation and proactive maintenance scheduling. Managed hardware procurement and vendor coordination, achieving ~98% on-time delivery.