Akhil Shaikh

Cloud Product Manager at Tareeq Al Ibd

• Great Britain (UK)
• My current job since April 2022

Responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the business, including technology roadmap, cybersecurity, data protection, migrating apps to cloud platform and future preparedness to ensure productive day-to-day operations and consistent business growth. Managing both UK and UAE sites, Reporting to the Program Manager.
•Facilitated technological change; led the adoption of the “Cloud First Approach” to meet the growing business demands and realise long-term goals; integrated cloud-based applications into existing procedures, transforming the business from paper-based to fully automated processes
•Oversaw the development and maintenance of bespoke e-commerce platform and legacy system; analysed the systems to identify opportunities for innovation; initiated the transition from usual dedicated servers to an AWS-backed infrastructure, improving systems reliability and scalability; improved company commercials with 5% savings and better fraud detection.

AWS DevOps Engineer at Sainsbury’s

• November 2019 to September 2020

Utilizing infrastructure-as-code principles/tools to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-performance infrastructure.
•Build and maintain CI/CD pipeline/process for a better software life cycle.
•Create business architecture models demonstrating how products, operations and systems.
•Strong experience using tools such as JIRA and Git/GitHub/AWS code pipeline

Cloud Project Manager at SPHERE NHS

• Great Britain (UK)
• April 2019 to September 2019

Cloud Engineer at Webbizz Limited

• Great Britain (UK)
• November 2016 to March 2019

Contracting for Silicon Market, Vodafone and Futuristic Technology as Technical Project and Consultant, one of the UK's leading specialist technology enterprises organizations. Software Development Lifecycle phases include Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, Support, and Administration applications on AWS Stacks with focusing on high availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.

•Designing and implementing monitoring security measures related to networks and software, validation procedures, programming, and documentation (AWS, Application Security, Vulnerability Management)
•Managing and optimizing AWS cloud infrastructure. Improving their logging and monitoring processes. Configuration management (Ansible, Terraform).
•Hands-on experience in working through the end-to-end project life cycle.
•Migrating On-Premises to Cloud using auto-scaling, and load-balancing features.
•Implement technical solutions for clients across the business
•Migrating the current in-house setup environment to AWS using the auto-scaling feature.

Technical Project Implementations at NHS England

• Great Britain (UK)
• August 2009 to October 2016

Contracting for multi organizations at NHS as Technical Infrastructure projects.

•Worked for NHS CSW-CSU at Oxford throughout the entire project lifecycle, project delivery, business liaison/stakeholder management, implementation review and project close out / handover. In this role, I have responsibility for deploying and Implementing a GP Cloud IT project, GP WI-FI/ VPN including Cloud backup storage and migrating clinical apps to the cloud.
•Worked for NHS Hounslow and Ealing, Project Implementation Lead Architect, in this role, I was responsible for leading and managing a project team. Planning, implementing, upgrading and deploying the entire IT infrastructure
•Worked for NHS blood and transplant, after the complete success of the NHSBT Electronic Offering System (EOS) project, the job requires the delivery of Clinical Application Implementation and services to 73 GP practices around the Barnet area. The responsibilities were to Audit, Plan and deploy the clinical applications, upgrade server and network optimisation.
•Worked for NHS Hounslow PCT, I was responsible for the deployment and implement several projects to an existing Infrastructure. In this role at NHS PCT, I was responsible for providing project support for over 700 staff and 56 GP practices, implementing the following projects.

Software Engineer at Farmacia Healthcare

• Great Britain (UK)
• July 2006 to July 2008

In this position, I focused on the design and implement the company's infrastructure and look after the e-commerce CMS website design, development, and support. I was solely responsible for the initial project plan communication between the 8 outlets which are in Harrods, Selfridges and House of Fraser.