Hammad Siddiqi

Teach Computer Networks to Artificial Intelligence and Data Science students.

Teach Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, Advanced Operating Systems to Cyber Security and Computer Science students.

Defined and executed technology and engineering roadmaps aligning cloud, infrastructure and security capabilities with business growth. Led migration to Nutanix HCI reducing operational costs by 25% and established KPIs improving reliability and productivity by 30%.

Designed cloud and infrastructure strategies aligned with organizational objectives, security, scalability, and disaster recovery. Led security solution architecture and technology evaluation across enterprise, hybrid, and cloud environments.

Combined cloud operations leadership with hands-on work across enterprise security technologies. Conducted infrastructure optimisation audits that reduced downtime by 30% and improved team capability through training.

Managed more than 20 engineering and technical support employees, reporting to the Director of Engineering and CTO. Developed departmental technology and process roadmaps and introduced standards that improved infrastructure efficiency and reduced downtime.

Led research and integration of KVM-based cloud technologies, including QEMU, KVM, Libvirt and Open vSwitch. Integrated Ceph storage improving efficiency by 30% and implemented Zabbix monitoring across more than 300 devices.

Designed and led Pakistan's first academic high-performance computing lab, securing more than PKR 16 million in funding. Developed an ISO 27001:2005 certified data centre and oversaw research clusters delivering more than 800 GFLOPS of computing power.

MSc in Information Systems Engineering from the University of Manchester, UK, completed in 2006.

Bachelor of Information Technology from NUST, Pakistan, completed in 2004.