shahzad ms
@shahzadms
I’m an executive cloud, AI, and cybersecurity architect turning GenAI into governed enterprise value.
What I'm looking for
I’m a top-tier cloud, AI, and security executive who turns technology investment into measurable enterprise outcomes. With 20+ years spanning executive leadership and enterprise architecture, I partner with boards and C-suites as a CTO/CIO/CISO and fractional tech leader across regulated industries.
I build multi-cloud platforms at scale—Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud—designed for production reliability, cost control, and governance. I’ve led transformations that deliver 99.99% uptime, significant OpEx reduction, and cloud-spend savings through FinOps and enterprise vendor negotiations.
My work also goes deep into production GenAI and agentic AI: model-agnostic orchestration, end-to-end RAG, and multi-agent systems with evaluation and human-in-the-loop safeguards. I’ve shipped governed AI capabilities using Microsoft Foundry, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Gemini, backed by strong MLOps/GenAIOps and observability.
Security and Zero Trust are foundational to how I deliver. I’ve modernized identity and detection across hybrid and distributed environments—reducing incident impact and driving strong audit outcomes—while engineering resilient architectures for enterprise consolidation, migrations, and disaster recovery.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Fractional CTO
ENDevo
Jan 2026 - Present (7 months)
Provided board-level technical leadership for cloud adoption, AI transformation, and security modernization for a legacy-readiness AWS SaaS platform. Architected an end-to-end Tier-4 AWS foundation and implemented governed, tenant-isolated agentic AI with Bedrock.
Founder & CEO
Alfalah
Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 7 months)
Founded and led an AI career-intelligence SaaS using a privacy-first, low-cost architecture with global deployment. Built a multi-model RAG and multi-agent platform with open-source and enterprise serving options.
Fractional Technology Advisor
Independent Practice
Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 7 months)
Provided fractional advisory and hands-on technical delivery for founders and CTOs across web and SaaS products. Delivered architecture (TOGAF references), secure-by-design cloud development, authentication, APIs, CI/CD, and AI/LLM integrations.
Principal Cloud Security Architect
Healthy Planet
Dec 2025 - Jul 2026 (7 months)
Architected a secured, AI-enabled Azure hybrid estate and built a governed production agent platform for enterprise store automation, including RAG and multi-modal AI services. Delivered zero-audit, Zero Trust identity and network security across 45+ sites.
Senior Solution Architect & SRE
CCS
Jan 2021 - Jan 2025 (4 years)
Modernized mission-critical infrastructure across multi-cloud landing zones with governed, cost-optimized foundations. Built IaC-driven, Kubernetes-based platform engineering and enabled early GenAI/MLOps with Zero Trust and security operations.
Senior Cloud Architect
Cronomagic Canada Inc.
Jan 2000 - Jan 2019 (19 years)
Progressed from systems administration to senior cloud/infrastructure architecture for carrier-neutral colocation and managed services. Led long-term enterprise transformations migrating datacenter workloads to hybrid cloud, improving resilience and continuity.
Senior Systems Architect
Lewis and Associates LLP
Jan 2020 - Present (6 years 7 months)
Designed hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure and security modernization for legal and financial-services clients. Delivered M365 modernization, secure application/API hosting, and resilient hybrid connectivity with documented operational processes.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
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Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Splunk
Azure Synapse
AWS Glue
Vespa
Dialogflow
BeyondTrust
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
DigitalOcean
Vultr
Azure Arc
GitHub
GitLab
Azure Communication Services
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
GitHub Actions
Azure Pipelines
GitLab CI
PySpark
Dataiku
F5
DB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Cassandra
Sybase
PowerDNS
Next.js
.NET
Google Analytics
Databricks
Azure Stack
Redis
Terraform
Pulumi
Azure DevOps
Azure IoT Hub
Jira
ASP.NET
PowerShell
HAProxy
Azure Machine Learning
TensorFlow
PyTorch
MLflow
Keras
Kubeflow
DataRobot
H2O
Istio
MongoDB Atlas
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Solarwinds
Nagios
Azure Monitor
Crossplane
PRTG
Linux
Windows
Windows Server
Datadog
SigNoz
Heroku
Red Hat OpenShift
Gemini
Prisma
SignalR
Elasticsearch
OpenSearch
Milvus
Zscaler
CrowdStrike
ClamAV
WordPress
Ansible
AWS Lambda
Serverless
Azure Functions
Azure SQL Managed Instance
Vercel
VMware vSphere
NGINX
JBoss
Airflow
K2
Axigen
Toolkit
Azure Firewall
Zoho Analytics
Time Analytics
GuardRails
KVM
Vanta
SQL
Citrix
IBM Cloud
Google Ads
JAMF
ServiceNow
Hugging Face
PostHog
Supabase
Qdrant
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Ollama
Weaviate
Weights & Biases
Upstash
Cloudflare Workers
AutoGen
Foundry
BentoML
Pinecone
CrewAI
Plane
Feast
Ray
Humanitec
Gremlin
LiteLLM
Chaos Mesh
LanceDB
KServe
Port
Delta Lake
vLLM
Dapr
Qiskit
Apigee
Harness
Clerk
Linkerd
ArgoCD
JAX
TiDB
Langfuse
TrueFoundry
Superagent
Llama.cpp
ClearML
Dynatrace
Helicone
Together AI
Haystack
Flyte
Resend
DSPy
Fireworks AI
Cirq
Cosmos
Bicep
pgvector
Drata
Alibaba Cloud
Agentic
Kedro
Modal
Braintrust
Faiss
LangGraph
LangSmith
Jit
Microsoft Fabric
OpenRouter
DeepSeek
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
SGLang
Mastra
ZenML
Commvault
Metaflow
Unity Catalog
Bridge
SentinelOne
Rubrik
Claude Code
Farm
Durable
Factory
Agent2Agent (A2A)
Camel-AI
Unify
Netskope
Microsoft Purview
Amazon Q
Azure AI Foundry
Falcon
X++
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