Syed Waqar Uddin
Chief Cloud Architect • Digital Transformation Leader • Enterprise Technology Strategist
🚀 Career Glimpse
For the last 13+ years, I have been working closely with enterprise decision-makers as a trusted advisor to adopt digital transformational roadmaps across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud journeys, which makes them competitive in the market, along with scalable architectures and agile approaches to solve existing challenges or in exploring new business initiatives. A hands-on techie who can articulate business strategies. Icebreaker, A trusted customer Advocate!
14+ Years Experience
70%+ Enterprise Adoption Rate
41 Month ROI Achievement
30% YoY Growth Delivered
💼 Professional Experience
Oct 2023 - Present
Chief Cloud Architect
Pakistan Octans Digital (Pvt) Ltd
Leading strategic cloud initiatives and driving digital transformation across enterprise accounts.
- Maximized revenue potential by strategically partnering with top-tier tech providers in network, security, data, & ransomware protection
- Leveraged exceptional communication and technical expertise to prepare a successful business case for a local hyper-scale cloud offering, leading to a significant 41-month-based ROI and 30% YoY growth in cloud-based revenue
- Championed cloud and PaaS offerings for enterprise customers, resulting in 25% customer adoption and key partnerships with cloud leaders
- Actively engaged in cloud native solution designs, providing security solutions for on-prem VMware-based hyper-converged infrastructure
- Facilitated workshops for enterprise clients, mapping out digital transformation plans based on gap analysis
Feb 2023 - Oct 2023
Head of Pre-Sales & Solutions Architecture
Pakistan Khazana Enterprise
Played a crucial role in establishing Khazana FSI's in-country hyper-scaler cloud infrastructure.
- Led and expanded the Pre-sales practice, optimizing client engagement and proposal development processes
- Engaged with rafay.co, a Kubernetes operations platform, sealing a strategic mutual exclusive partnership that led to an impressive pipeline growth by 40%
- Spearheaded the Red Kube (Otomi) open-source partnership initiative, focusing to enhance developer experience
- Established a robust go-to-market strategy for cloud-native solutions
Mar 2015 - Oct 2022
Staff Solutions Architect / Leader Solution Engineering
Pakistan VMware
Led VMware's cloud provider program development and enterprise solution engineering across Pakistan.
- Played key role in building VMware Cloud Provider Program locally in Pakistan for use case driven solutions
- Engaged in solutions pre-sales involving the complete VMware SDDC and EUC stack along with SD-WAN, AVI, Carbon Black
- Leading from the front in building industry wide thought process of Hybrid and Multi-cloud strategies by active evangelism
- Architected and converted over 70% enterprise and medium organizations on VMware Software Defined Storage (VSAN) platform
- Focus areas included Application Modernization (Microservices) with VMware Tanzu, Kubernetes, VMware Cloud Foundation with NSX Multisite
- Lead first three (03) VMware Cloud Foundation customer acquisitions
- Successfully on-boarded customers for VMware Tanzu (Kubernetes based offerings) in FSI sectors
- Created and implemented Work From Home Reusable Assets for Pakistan FSI Accounts during COVID-19
Apr 2012 - Mar 2015
Technical Solution Architect / Tech. Project Manager
IBM - Karachi, Pakistan
Assumed overall technical responsibility for solution construction, implementation and system integration.
- Delivered new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements
- Utilized in-depth knowledge of leading-edge products (Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Wyse) and technology
- Combined industry and business skills to influence clients and drive successful outcomes
- Led multiple medium to large sized projects concurrently in various stages
Nov 2010 - Feb 2012
Systems Engineer
SYSNET PAKISTAN (PVT.) LTD
Delivered technical solutions for enterprise clients across Oil & Gas, Banking, and Aviation sectors.
- Delivered technical presentation and proposed design concept at Oil & Gas Company Middle East for Citrix VDI implementation using VMware ESXi Hypervisor for over 4000 nodes
- Lead solution engineering team to design End to End Datacenter for Petroleum Industry using VMware ESX 4.1
- Successfully deployed Citrix XenApp 6.0 Solution at International Power Global Developments Limited (IPGDL)
- Worked on core banking application migration for reputed Bank from Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 to XenApp 6.0
- Deployed Citrix XenApp 5.0 for 200 nodes at Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
🎯 Core Expertise & Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure
- VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX
- AWS, Azure, Multi-cloud strategies
- Kubernetes, Docker, Tanzu
- Citrix XenApp, XenServer, VDI
- Hyper-converged Infrastructure
- Software Defined Storage
Platform Engineering
- Application Modernization
- Microservices Architecture
- CI/CD Integration
- DevOps & Automation
- Container Orchestration
- Cloud Native Solutions
Security & Compliance
- Network Security (NSX)
- Carbon Black Security
- Ransomware Protection
- Security Architecture
- Compliance Frameworks
- Zero Trust Implementation
Leadership & Strategy
- Technical Leadership
- Digital Transformation
- Enterprise Architecture
- Business Case Development
- TCO/ROI Analysis
- Customer Advisory
🎓 Education & Certifications
Education
2006 - 2010
BS in Telecommunication Engineering
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST)
2013 - 2014
IBM World Wide Project Management Institute
Dubai, UAE - Project Management and Financial Methods in IT
2014
IBM Technical Leadership University
Dubai, UAE - Technical Leadership with Architectural Thinking
Professional Certifications
VM
VMware Certified Implementation Expert
Data Center Virtualization (VCIE-DCV)
VM
VMware Cloud on AWS
Master Specialist
OCI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
2021 Certified Architect Associate
ELS
Elastic Sales Professional
February 2024
VEM
Veeam Sales Professional
(VMSP)
APP
Modern Applications Livefire
Cloud Native Infrastructure 2021
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