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Ibrahim Nowshad

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Passion to apply technology to solve problems, flexibility to thrive in a fast paced collaborative environment, excellent communication skills.

eCommerce/digital infrastructure leader, led mission-critical distributed Linux-platform server and performance teams to handle exponential growth.

Experience across multiple industries, including: eCommerce, media, retail, software consultancies. Leading local, regional and global platform and server infrastructure engineering and architecture teams and projects. Executed project-based technical roles across India, Europe and S.E. Asia.

Previously, held Taiwan 🇹🇼 Employment Gold Card holder (but never lived in Taiwan), currently based in Chennai 🇮🇳

❗️ Key Points:

Trusted advisor working across various geographies with inclusive multi-cultural teams. Growing teams from managing several Linux system networks in a small cloud environment, to a large cloud and physical server estate in datacentres across India and SE Asia. Interview, select, lead and develop engineering teams; mentor, set and evaluate goals and KPIs.

👨🏻‍💻 Technical Skills

👨🏻‍💻 Engineering Experience

Cloud Solutions Architect - Freelance @ Various Clients and Personal Projects (Aug 2023 - till date)

Manager - Cloud Infrastructure @ Cult.Sport (Feb 2023 - Aug 2023)
eCommerce for smart fitness products, sportswear, at‑home workout equipment and bicycles

Technology Manager - Cloud Security and Infrastructure @ Lazada (Jan 2020 - Jan 2023)
South East Asia’s eCommerce incubated by Rocket Internet and acquired by Alibaba Group

Technical Project Manager - Technology and Products @ Alibaba Cloud (Mar 2018 - Jan 2020)
Alicloud provides reliable and secure cloud computing and data processing capabilities as a part of its online solutions.

Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer @ Versé (Jun 2016 - Mar 2018)
Regional news aggregator in India through mobile app dailyhunt

Lead Network Engineer - IT Infrastructure @ Myntra (Apr 2014 - Jul 2016)
Fashion e‐tailer of India, acquired by Flipkart and Walmart

🚀 Other Positions Held

Senior Systems Engineer @ Café Coffee Day (Jan 2012 - Apr 2014)
Junior Network Engineer @ iTech India (Oct 2010 - Jan 2012)

🎓 Education

B.Tech in Information Technology, First Class
Anna University - Chennai, India (2007 - 2010)
Couse Work: Analysis of Password Login Phishing-Based Protocols for Security Improvements or 2FA Auth with JSP and MSSQL. This project was based on IEEE 2009 and published in the International Conference on Emerging Technologies. Link to the paper

Diploma in Information Technology, First Class (Honors)
State Board of Technical Education - Chennai, India (2004 - 2007)
Course Work: ‘Information about my Institution’ - Basic HTML and MSSQL website with student registration online

📚 Certifications

(Cloud Native Cloud Foundation - CNCF) Kubernetes Administrator (In-progress)
(Google Cloud Platform - GCP) Professional Cloud Architect (In-progress)
(Google Cloud Platform - GCP) Cloud Digital Leader
(Aviatrix) Multicloud Network Associate
(Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - OCI) Foundations Associate (1Z0-1085-24)
(Schneider) Data Center Certified Associate Exam Development Path
(Cybrary) Nessus Fundamentals, Manage a Network Infrastructure
(Rackspace) CloudU Rackspace
(VMware) Associate - Cloud, Data Center Virtualization and Workforce Mobility
(Microsoft) IT Professional, Technology Specialist, Solutions Associate