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shahzad ms

@shahzadms

I’m an executive cloud, AI, and cybersecurity architect turning GenAI into governed enterprise value.

Canada
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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead governed cloud + GenAI transformations with strong Zero Trust security—building production platforms, measurable AI outcomes, and audit-ready compliance while mentoring teams and delivering board-level value.

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

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Current

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.

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Current

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.

HP

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.

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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.

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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.

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Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

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Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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Splunk

Azure Synapse logo

Azure Synapse

AWS Glue logo

AWS Glue

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Vespa

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Dialogflow

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BeyondTrust

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Microsoft Azure

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Google Cloud Platform

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DigitalOcean

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Vultr

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Azure Arc

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GitHub

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GitLab

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Azure Communication Services

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Kubernetes

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Cloudflare

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GitHub Actions

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Azure Pipelines

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GitLab CI

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PySpark

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Dataiku

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F5

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DB

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MySQL

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PostgreSQL

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MongoDB

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Cassandra

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Sybase

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PowerDNS

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Next.js

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.NET

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Google Analytics

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Databricks

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Azure Stack

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Redis

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Terraform

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Pulumi

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Azure DevOps

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Azure IoT Hub

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Jira

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ASP.NET

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PowerShell

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HAProxy

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Azure Machine Learning

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TensorFlow

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MLflow

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Keras

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DataRobot

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MongoDB Atlas

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Grafana

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OpenTelemetry

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Linux

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Windows Server

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Heroku

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Azure AI Foundry

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Location

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Skills

AzureAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformOracle Cloud InfrastructureHybrid and CloudKubernetesTerraformAnsibleBicepAzure DevOpsGitHub ActionsGitOpsArgoCDFluxIstioLinkerdAWS AI BedrockAWS SagemakerAzure OpenAIAzure AI SearchMicrosoft FabricOneLakeDatabricksAzure Machine LearningMLFlowKubeflowMicrosoft PurviewZero TrustMicrosoft Entra IDAzure SentinelMicrosoft DefenderLang ChainLangGraphLlamaIndexHaystackCrew AIRAGPineconeWeaviateMilvusQdrantPostgreSQLSQL ServerPower BISOC IIISO 27001PCI DSSWeights BiasesApigeeFaissPostHogSplunkAWS GlueVespaDialogflowBeyondTrustVultrAzure ArcGitlabAzure Communication ServicesGitlab CIPySparkDataikuMySQLMongoDBCassandraPowerDNSNext.js.NETAzure StackPulumiAzure IoT HubJiraPowerShellASP.NETHAProxyPyTorchKerasDataRobotH2OPrometheusGrafanaSolarwindsNagiosazure monitorCrossplanePRTGWindowsWindows ServerSigNozOpenShiftGeminiPrismaSignalRZscalerCrowdstrikeClamAVServerlessAzure FunctionsAzure SQL Managed InstanceVercelVSphereNginxJBossK 2AxigenToolkitAzure FirewallZoho AnalyticsTime AnalyticsGuardRailsKVMVantaGitHubCloudflareWordPressAWS LambdaSQLCitrixIBM CloudServiceNowHugging FaceGoogle AnalyticsRedisElasticsearchMongoDB AtlasLinuxHerokuDigitalOceanAirflowTensorFlowAzure SynapseSybaseDBsOpenTelemetryOpenSearchJamfGoogle AdsAzure PipelinesDatadogOllamaSupabaseUpstashCloudflare WorkersAutoGenFoundryBentoMLPlaneFeastRayHumanitecGremlinLiteLLMChaosMeshLanceDBAlibaba CloudKServeBridgesPortDelta LakeVLLMDaprQiskitJaxHarnessClerkPgvectorTiDBLangfuseTrueFoundrySuperagentLLamacppMetaflowClearMLDynatraceHeliconeTogether.AiFlyteAgentic AIResendDSPyDrataFireworks AICirqCosmosFarmKedroFactoryModalBraintrustLangsmithFalconJITOpenRouterUnity CatalogDeep SeekDurableModel Context Protocol (MCP)RubrikSentinelOneMastraSglangClaude CodeZenMLCommvaultAgent2Agent (A2A)Camel AIUnifyNetskopeAmazon QAzure AI Foundry

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