syed's CV
Profile summary
Strategic Cloud Solutions Lead with 25 years shaping cloud infrastructure strategy and multi-cloud transformation outcomes. Known for architecting enterprise Google Cloud and hybrid environments, automating landing zones with Terraform, and driving AI and GenAI engagements. Committed to steering complex cloud programs and cost optimization initiatives for global financial and enterprise accounts.
Career highlights
Cloud Infrastructure Automation: Automated Google Cloud Landing Zone using Terraform, reducing infrastructure provisioning time by 70% and standardizing deployments across enterprise environments.
Cloud Transformation Strategy: Shaped cloud infrastructure strategy, steering enterprise client engagements across Google Cloud and multi cloud environments for major banking and financial services accounts.
AI and GenAI Solutions: Drove AI and GenAI engagements positioning Google Vertex AI and IBM GenAI solutions to enterprise clients.
Key skills
Professional experience
Reports to regional leadership, steering multi cloud enterprise advisory functions and go to market partnership programs for major banking accounts.
- Architected Google Cloud infrastructure for a Global Capability Center cloud transformation engagement.
- Drove AI and GenAI engagements positioning Google Vertex AI and IBM GenAI solutions to enterprise clients.
- Executed a cloud transition engagement for a Canada based banking and financial services client.
- Automated Google Cloud Landing Zone using Terraform, reducing infrastructure provisioning time by 70% and standardizing deployments across enterprise environments.
- Advised enterprise accounts on multi cloud FinOps by identifying cost optimization levers across AWS and GCP.
Shaped cloud transformation strategy for a major automotive enterprise in Europe, directing cloud architecture, security standards, and identity integration across hybrid environments. Influenced enterprise application portfolios by aligning federated identity strategies and cloud access governance models.
- Contributed to IAM design decisions, establishing federated identity strategies.
Directed cloud service management operations, overseeing Cloud Architects and DevOps Engineers across global regions including Germany, Singapore, and Japan. Managed program risks to maintain strict security and identity management compliance standards across all deployment environments.
- Directed AWS and Azure cloud transformation programs for a European automotive client.
- Monitored cross regional deployment risks to enforce security and identity management standards.
- Designed migration blueprints incorporating cloud IAM governance, role-based access segmentation, and security baseline controls.
- Collaborated with AWS and GCP partner teams on cloud go-to-market initiatives, co-developing joint propositions including identity-integrated cloud security solutions.
- Facilitated technical workshops for partner enablement.
- Supported India based system integrators in the Middle East region for RedHat virtualization solutions.
- Designed green data center, consolidation, and virtualization architectures to scale client infrastructure.
- Administered production servers and executed incident resolution tasks according to ITIL frameworks.
- Monitored infrastructure through Nagios to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve system and application alerts in real time.
- Executed server patching, operating system updates, and antivirus deployments to maintain security compliance.
- Administered remote servers and performed routine diagnostics to sustain operational stability.
- Installed, configured, and maintained servers, workstations, network devices, and peripheral systems.
- Executed IT infrastructure upgrades and system enhancements to support evolving operational requirements.
- Introduced identity-aware architecture patterns across multi-cloud engagements.
Education
Physics (Electronics)
Physics
IT