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@ahmeduser14

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Engineering leader specializing in cloud architecture, DevOps, and scalable SaaS platform delivery.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I seek a leadership role in cloud/platform engineering where I can drive secure, scalable cloud architectures, mentor teams, and improve operational excellence.

I am an experienced engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting, implementing, and optimizing cloud solutions across AWS, GCP, and Azure. I drive innovation and operational excellence by building resilient, cost-efficient, and secure cloud-native architectures.

Throughout my career I have led high-performing teams, implemented IaC and CI/CD pipelines, and deployed distributed systems including Kafka, Flink, GKE, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, and SingleStore. I have a proven record of improving uptime, reducing incident response times, and enabling faster release cycles through DevOps practices.

I prioritize security, compliance and cross-functional collaboration, having implemented WAF rules, platform-wide encryption, logging and monitoring strategies, and cloud governance frameworks. I mentor engineers and partner with product and security teams to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions that meet business goals.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Engineering Manager

Current

Thentia Inc.

Feb 2022 - Present (3 years 8 months)

Led a team of cloud engineers to operate and scale a mission-critical SaaS platform, improving uptime and reducing incident response time by 50% through automation, monitoring, and IaC practices.

GKE Apache Flink Kafka MongoDB SingleStore Terraform CI CD Monitoring DevOps

Lead / Manager

Deloitte Canada

Jul 2021 - Jan 2022 (6 months)

Embedded partner seller for Google Cloud Platform in Western Canada, created sales materials and demos and collaborated with customer engineers to drive GCP engagements.

Google Cloud Platform Sales Engineering Workshops Stakeholder Management GCP

Senior Consultant

Deloitte Canada

Feb 2020 - Jun 2021 (1 year 4 months)

Delivered AWS landing zone implementations, centralized logging and security accounts, and conducted workshops to standardize account and identity management for enterprise customers.

AWS Organizations CloudFormation VPC IAM Logging Azure DevOps Workshops Security

Cloud Consultant

Deloitte Canada

Feb 2019 - Feb 2020 (1 year)

Architected and operated master cloud environments, led onboarding of Guidewire-based Insurcloud, automated telemetry and ticketing, and built GKE-based landing zones for managed services.

Kubernetes GKE Terraform Ansible IAM CI CD

Cloud Consultant

Deloitte USA

Mar 2018 - Jan 2019 (10 months)

Built CI/CD, global logging and monitoring platforms and migrated encrypted data to AWS with EMR-based processing while automating deployments using Terraform, Ansible and serverless functions.

AWS EMR S3 KMS Terraform Jenkins ELK Lambda Serverless

Senior Consultant

Capgemini America, Inc.

Oct 2016 - Mar 2018 (1 year 5 months)

Led development of Java services and real-time data pipelines using Kafka and Spark for Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts, delivering analytics and streaming solutions for property management.

Java Kafka Spark Hive Apache NiFi AngularJS NodeJS

Contributor Software Engineer

Sabre

May 2015 - Dec 2015 (7 months)

Developed integrations and testing strategies for property management systems, contributed to automation and won hackathon recognition for a voice-interface prototype.

Java MongoDB NodeJS Test Automation CI CD AngularJS TDD

Azure Cloud Architect

Enbridge

Designed and implemented an Azure landing zone with hub-and-spoke networking, governance policies, and DevOps pipelines to support later migration of over 100 applications.