Shaik

About Shaik

Cloud Infrastructure Solution Architect and Service Line Lead with 19 years of overall IT experience, specializing in designing, migrating, and modernizing enterprise workloads on Microsoft Azure.I lead end-to-end cloud transformation initiatives from strategy, architecture, and landing zone design to large-scale migrations, security enablement, and operational excellence. My work spans Azure IaaS, PaaS, AKS, hybrid architectures, and multi-cloud integrations, with a strong focus on security-by-design and automation-first principles.I regularly engage with CXOs, Engineering teams, and enterprise customers, helping them make informed architectural decisions around networking, identity, governance, disaster recovery, and cost optimization (FinOps).In addition to delivery, I play a key role in pre-sales and service line growth - leading RFP responses, defining cloud accelerators, mentoring architects and consultants, and building niche capabilities and AI-ready cloud platforms.Core strengths include:Azure Landing Zones (Connectivity, Identity, Governance, Security)Large-scale Azure migrationsAKS, container platformsNetwork & security architectureDisaster RecoveryInfrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Bicep, ARM, Terraform)Pre-sales, RFP solutioning, and technical leadershipI am passionate about building resilient cloud platforms, enabling teams to scale, and helping organizations realize real business value from cloud investments.

Experience

1. Senior Advisory Application Architect

   IBM

   Jan 2026 — Present

Education

• Vivekananda High School , Khammam

  High School

  1997 — 1998

• Kakatiya University, Warangal

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech