01. Summary
Strategic IT Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions Architect with 15+ years of experience delivering scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise platforms across on-premises and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure). Recognized for architecting resilient infrastructures, optimizing performance, and designing robust HA, DR, and backup strategies that safeguard business continuity.Proven leader in cloud transformation initiatives, bridging technical strategy with business objectives to reduce costs, enhance security, and improve operational efficiency. Adept at leading cross-functional teams, modernizing legacy environments, and translating complex technical challenges into practical, value-driven solutions
02. Expertise
Cloud Platforms
Infrastructure & OS
Automation & DevOps
Backup & Recovery
NetBackup, EMC Networker, AWS Glacier, HP Data Protector, Data Domain DD2500.
High Availability
Red Hat Cluster Suite, Veritas Cluster, Solaris Cluster, Clustered Environments.
Management Tools
JIRA, Confluence, Trello, Apache Tomcat, Nagios, Icinga.
03. Career Timeline
Lead Cloud Architect
Perseus Group, Constellation Software
- ▹ Leading cloud architecture strategy and infrastructure operations for enterprise-scale systems.
- ▹ Driving cloud adoption and ensuring infrastructure solutions align with business continuity and cost optimization goals.
- ▹ Spearheaded the end-to-end cloud migration strategy for 70+ diverse business units, transitioning legacy on-premises workloads to Azure.
Cloud & IT Infrastructure Expert
Telenor Global Services
- ▹ Assist in designing, transitioning and deploying of applications on AWS cloud using core services like EC2, ELB, S3, Route-53, IAM, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, VPC.
- ▹ Develop and implement instrumentation for monitoring, fault detection, alerting, triage and recovery (automated and manual).
- ▹ Design and operate environments (Staging & Dev / QA) to test application resiliency to infrastructure instabilities.
- ▹ Proactive approach towards issue identification using Nagios and ELK; ensure alerts are prioritized and addressed.
- ▹ Configuration and deployment of Apache Tomcat, Docker, Jenkins and helping dev teams with local system setups.
- ▹ Building infrastructures for automated deployments and setups of multicontainer applications through Docker.
IT Specialist
Telenor Pakistan
Key System Infrastructure Architect for Nordic telecom giant (36M+ subscribers).
- ▹ Worked with Global partners Accenture for transformation of IT Infrastructure to a shared services model.
- ▹ Planning new projects and optimization of existing resources.
- ▹ Provide timely recommendations for required upgrades of systems.
System Executive
Telenor Pakistan
- ▹ Operations for Linux/Solaris & Backup Domain.
- ▹ Capacity planning for servers and backups.
- ▹ Clustered Environments: REDHAT, VERITAS, Sun.
- ▹ Monitoring of performance utilizations.
- ▹ Formulation of Service/Operational Level Agreements (SLA/OLA).
- ▹ Management of RedHat Cluster for HA and Distributed FS.
System Engineer
PakVista Tech
- ▹ Provided system readiness and infrastructure Support
- ▹ System and Network Support for ongoing Projects
- ▹ Customization of Elastix open source VoIP Server & Asterisk management
04. Detailed Projects
Integration 2.0
Designed Global Shared Services Middleware layer on AWS. Central integration hub for 30+ enterprise systems including Oracle EBS, Workday, and ServiceNow. Implemented ELK Stack for centralized logging.
Data Domain & EMC Deployment
Deployed EMC Networker backup solution and migrated whole infrastructure from HP Data Protector. Planned and deployed Data Domain DD2500, migrating data from old tape libraries.
Oracle Exadata (Easypaisa)
Responsible for complete PR & DR site design for Oracle Engineering Boxes. Managed hardware commissioning, installation, and integration with cross-functional teams.
Railways Tracking System
Analysis and design of Pakistan Railways Online GIS-based Tracking System. Configured GIS devices and routed live data from GPS devices to host servers.
Security Camera Integration
Integration of Avigilon IP cameras with VoIP video surveillance. Configured VoIP servers for video calling using Elastix PABX and designed routing for IP phones.
Digitization of OPS Rooms
System Architecture design on Dell PowerEdge servers. Configured 100-node networks using Cisco/Linksys and deployed Glassfish middleware.
Education
BSc Computer Engineering
University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila (2006 – 2010)