Sohaib Ashraf

Platform Engineer @IBM

London, GB

Built Proof-of-Concepts for clients in short 4–8-week projects to demonstrate value of IBM products and services and influenced over $15 million deal in signings- Presented weekly playbacks to key stakeholders and a final playback to executive level clients about the work we did and the value we brought to their business, helping to influence their purchases of IBM products and services- Used Python on multiple data science projects to transcribe and analyse audio and deployed to OpenShift- Designed architecture for deploying a Python project which downloaded audio, transcribed it to text, and ran emotion and sentiment analysis handling multiple gigabytes of audio data- Learnt front end development (Next.js) to build dashboards for retail client, helping them to increase revenue by 10%- Created full stack platform (Next.js) for retail client to offer event planning services, helping them offerproducts and services across disparate subsidiaries they owned and improve cross-selling capabilities- Created Terraform script to automate deploying private OpenShift clusters and components for data science projects speeding up time to deployment from multiple days to 2 hours- Created Tekton CI/CD pipelines to automatically deploy Message Queue demonstrations for rapid turnaround of projects across a range of industries- Built demonstrations of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration products (e.g, Event Streams, Message Queue, App Connect Enterprise) and deployed them on OpenShift/IBM Cloud- Drove engineering and data science communities to adopt Python and git best practices, ensuring smooth development during projects by standardising development practices across the wider team

The University of Manchester

Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics

Altrincham Grammar School For Boys

High School

King's College London

Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics