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Calgary, Ab, Ca

Edmonton, Alberta, Ca

• Established Cloud and DevSecOps team in alliance with business, development, cybersecurity and risk teams which resulted in 90% improvement in secure cloud development and risk reduction rate.• Streamlined vulnerability remediation model and reduced fraud related incidents by 97%.• Delivered strategic security architecture roadmap and vision including standards and frameworks.• Crafted and delivered senior executive level tech strategy narratives, roadmaps and analysis.• Led security and cyber risk assessments on capabilities and revised cloud governance, policies/processes and obtained 100% compliance with regulatory requirements.• Developed cross-functional leaders (architecture, cybersecurity, operations and development) by implementing structured training program and performance metric analysis, boosted 40% increase in leadership effectiveness and 35% improvement in operational efficiency.• Cultivated strategic partnerships with vendors and service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP,...) and ensured 100% service alignment with strategic business goals.• Effectively led the negotiation of contracts and SLAs with vendors and ensured efficient service delivery and cost effective solutions (i.e., 80% reduction on DevSecOps platform cost).

Edmonton, Alberta, Ca

• Formed the creation of the cloud architecture team and implemented Cloud Operating Model and FinOps practice yielded in 50% cloud billing reduction.• Pioneered API and Microservices development model and governance strategy.• Initiated multi-cloud security architecture practice and implemented Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) that enhanced threat detection by 80% and streamlined incident response by 50%.• Established Architecture Review Board for partnering in delivery of technology solutions.• Formed the Developer Enablement team by incorporating value stream delivery metrics that achieved significant reduction in time to market for app and features.• Monitored emerging industry trends and evaluated technology strategy and road-map and applied industry-leading practices to solve for high priority business challenges.

Edmonton, Alberta, Ca

• Delivered Terraform based cloud foundation blueprint for hosting mission critical workload in the cloud.Implemented Policy-As-Code practice and reduced the infrastructure attack surface by >90%• Partnered with leaders and led data centers migration for 100s of banking applications and servers to cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and raised service uptime to >99.98%.• Automated cloud security controls and ensured security gaps are identified and addressed effectively.• Led cloud and microservice architecture and delivered secure, cost-effective mobile/web app products; Achieved stellar 4.9-star ratings on Apple & Google store.• Started, staffed, trained and led a team of 12 SREs and achieved 100% incident response rate.• Mentored and supported team members across enterprise and fostered strategic thinking and problem solving approach.

Alberta, 407 9 Ave Se, Ca

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Calgary, Ab, Ca

• Developed & delivered scalable cloud native ERP solution on GCP and full stack microservices based real time data aggregation solution on AWS.• Built asset tracking system based on AWS & Azure IoT and Bluetooth low energy.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Migrated global petabyte scale SQL based database system to cloud with 0 minute downtime.• Engineered and delivered alerting system for real-time production data monitoring workflow, including pump control and SCADA real-time data monitoring.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Started, staffed, trained and managed the global 24/7 observability & operation center, resulting in service revenue growth of $7m annually.• Engineered and deployed a comprehensive satellite network for secure remote operations access across Asia and the Middle-East and Latin America