Zohaib Khalid, M.Sc. Email & Phone Number

Pakistan

• As a Senior Manager, I hired and led a team of six data engineers and analysts to automate service delivery pipelines and KPI reporting dashboards for Zain Telecom Iraq, resulting in faster delivery and significant.
• Conducted requirement analysis and built ETL pipelines using Airflow on AWS.
• Managed AWS admin tasks focused on FinOps and DataOps.
• Facilitated technology transfer with Ericsson's Global Services Center in China.
• Performed code reviews and maintained code repository.

• I led a growing team of data engineers to deliver network performance reports to nationwide operation teams of Jazz Telecom. My initiative in implementing unattended automation and ensuring exceptional data quality.
• Architected complex ELT data pipelines capable of 3-Hourly batch ingestion of 25GB daily.
• Modeled a 100TB+ on-site MSSQL data warehouse for 5+ years of historical data delivering 100+ daily reports.
• Automated data cleaning and ingestion from multiple Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens and ZTE OSS.
• Maintained materialized views of aggregated and consolidated data of 2G, 3G and 4G LTE on multiple dimensions.
• Developed an AI email responder to convert text to SQL queries for on-demand data requests.

• I supported nationwide team of RF optimizers, working for Warid Telecom, to automate and streamline their disjoint repetitive data consolidation tasks into centralized pipelines having multi-vendor data ingestion and.
• BI calculations and network performance reporting on multiple time/regional dimensions.
• Developed web interface for team to keep up-to-date physical parameters of sites.
• Key ad-hoc reporting resource during Warid-Mobilink merger.
• Audit of new rollout sites with baseline PM/CM checks.TECH STACK: Python · Autoit · MSSQL · Excel · Huawei PRS/U2000 · ZTE NetNumen · Nokia NetAct · Ericsson ENIQ · SAP BO

Islamabad & Lahore, Pakistan

• I led a team of vendors to provide managed services on nationwide data networks, servers, applications and databases. I also function as a critical resource to assist with complex design, configuration and securing.
• Developed custom python scripts to source handpicked data for analysis in Splunk.
• Coded timeping using python and scapy to identify sub-second network delays on intra-city WAN links.
• Assisted C-suite executives to finalize various workflows and design requirements.
• Technical evaluation of RFQ responses for deployment of private cloud from various vendors.
• Initiated SOC department by deploying SIEM and various compliance, policy planner and change management modules.

• Provided technical support to Engineers at Network Operation Center (NOC) Base Station Support (BSS) Department for taking corrective and preventive measures
• Successfully completed some self-initiated projects for efficiently handling BSS database.
• Handling total BSS database including all information of each BTS and BSC for operational purposes and to efficiently follow SOPs required for any outage/alarm.
• Hands on support of Alcatel and Motorola BSS and OMC. Perform authoritative tasks on Base Station Controllers (BSC) placed all over Pakistan.
• Generated Preventive Measure tickets for different sites all around Pakistan to make sure of the replacement of bad equipment before any serious connectivity failure issue arises.

Oulu, Finland

• Functioned as a liaison for the Finland based software house and performed automated QA testing of their Data Loss Prevention (DLP) software inGaurd.
• Written scripts to stress test data leakage attempts via Disk I/O, LAN, Internet, printing, burning to Optical disk etc.
• Maintain bug list and automated testing reports for nightly software builds.
• Maintained Windows Server 2008 Active directory and Linux – Debian/Ubuntu 9.10 Servers.
• Maintained Virtual Private Network (VPN) between Lahore, Pakistan and Oulu, Finland offices.TECH STACK: Python · Perl · C++ · VBS · MySQL · SVN · Scapy · Bugzilla · Metasploit · Bash Scripting · Batch scripting

Applied Python Data Engineering Professional Certificate

Master'S Degree, Engineering Management

Project Management, Project Risk Management, Economic Decisions, Human Resource Management, Total Quality Management, Operations Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Telecommunication Engineering

Activities and Societies: Head of Programming Competitions @ Software Exhibition & Competitions (SOFTEC), Head of Competitions @.