DevOps
CloudOps
Artifical Intelligence
Agile Methodologies
Hackathons
Navid Khan
Toronto
Summary
Technology professional with a robust background in leading large-scale IT, software development, and DevOps projects while delivering business results. Known for fostering team collaboration and adapting to changing business needs. Proficient in strategic planning, project management, and technological innovation.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Vice-President of Technology
Kognitiv Corporation
10.2022 - Current
- Enterprise Cloud Strategy and Optimisation: Spearheaded cloud migration and optimisation strategies across Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), reducing overall cloud spend by over 60% through resource rightsizing, auto-scaling, and advanced cost-management practices.
- Digital Transformation Leadership: Drove enterprise-wide digital transformation by implementing automation frameworks, reducing manual intervention by 80%, and reallocating engineering resources toward innovation and strategic initiatives. Developed comprehensive data analytics strategies that informed key business decisions and drove growth.
- Cloud-Native Architecture: Designed and implemented scalable, cloud-native solutions using Kubernetes, microservices, and serverless technologies, enabling a 200% increase in global operations scalability while ensuring future-proof infrastructure investments.
- Compliance and Security: Directed the implementation of SOC 2 Type I & II, SIEM, SOAR, OneTrust, and MetaCompliance frameworks, ensuring enterprise-wide compliance, improving security posture, and achieving regulatory alignment across multiple regions.
- DevOps and CI/CD: Led the adoption of DevOps best practices by designing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, automating build and release processes, and ensuring seamless application deployments with high availability and minimal downtime.
- Monitoring and Incident Response: Implemented automated monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems, cutting Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) by 50%, and significantly enhancing system reliability and uptime.
- Leadership and Mentorship: Directed globally distributed teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability, while developing future leaders and ensuring alignment with corporate goals.
- Strategic Vendor Partnerships: Managed strategic partnerships with major cloud providers (Azure, GCP), ensuring optimal use of services, co-innovation opportunities, and leveraging enterprise support agreements. Fostered strong vendor relationships to negotiate favorable contracts and ensure timely delivery of products and services.
Director of Custom Software Engineering
Accenture
10.2020 - 11.2022
- CI/CD Implementation and Optimization: Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines with a Terraform-first approach, incorporating Terratest for infrastructure testing.
- Achieved a 70% reduction in time-to-market and eliminated configuration drift across multiple environments, ensuring consistent and reliable deployments.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Standardization: Led a team of DevOps engineers, standardizing Terraform and pipeline configurations to streamline project execution, enforce best practices for branching strategies, and ensure robust infrastructure testing and setup.
- Test Automation Transformation: Directed a team of Automation Engineers to convert over 1,000 manual test cases into automated scripts, significantly accelerating release cycles and enabling agile bug resolution.
- Modernized the organization's CI/CD pipelines to integrate automated testing seamlessly.
- Operational Automation: Automated complex manual operations across development and infrastructure, reducing human error, improving deployment speed, and enhancing reliability in both cloud-native and hybrid environments.
- Technical Governance Leadership: Spearheaded organization-wide technical governance initiatives, fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams to identify, discuss, and resolve technical challenges effectively. Established a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
- Mentorship and Leadership: Mentored and guided globally distributed teams of engineers, fostering technical growth, instilling best practices, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals and strategies.
- Agility in Delivery: Enabled faster feature delivery cycles by implementing automation and IaC principles, empowering development teams to remain agile and deliver business value efficiently.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with product management, architecture, and delivery teams to align technical solutions with business goals, balancing innovation with operational efficiency.
Solutions Architect
Wide Open West
11.2018 - 11.2020
- Data Centre Architecture and Optimization: Designed and implemented highly available, scalable, and resilient on-premises infrastructure solutions within data centre environments, leveraging OpenStack for private cloud deployments and virtualized resource management.
- OpenStack Expertise: Led the end-to-end deployment and maintenance of OpenStack-based private cloud environments, ensuring optimized resource utilization, efficient orchestration of compute, storage, and networking, and seamless integration with legacy systems.
- Comprehensive Testing Strategies: Developed and implemented rigorous testing methodologies across infrastructure, performance, application, and system layers to ensure seamless operation in production environments.
- Enhanced system reliability and reduced downtime through proactive validation.
- Automation in Data Centre Environments: Automated infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and configuration management using tools such as Ansible and Terraform, reducing manual intervention and eliminating configuration drift across environments.
- Legacy System Optimization: Recovered critical knowledge and stabilized legacy systems by conducting deep-dive analyses, end-to-end testing, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Enabled development teams to modernize systems while maintaining operational continuity.
- Private Cloud Security: Ensured the security and compliance of private cloud systems by implementing best practices such as role-based access control (RBAC), network segmentation, and automated vulnerability scanning to protect sensitive workloads.
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Architected and implemented active-active clusters, fault-tolerant systems, and disaster recovery strategies tailored to data centre environments, achieving 99.99% uptime and rapid failover capabilities.
- Evaluated emerging technologies to stay current on industry trends, making informed decisions for technology adoption.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry
York University
Toronto, ON06-2016
Skills
- IT Infrastructure Management
- Business Process Improvement
- DevOps Implementation
- IT Governance
Certification
- Microsoft Fundamentals (AZ 900)
- Azure Administrator Associate (AZ 104)
- Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ 305)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Google Professional Cloud Architect
- Smartbear TestComplete QA Architect
- ITIL 3 Foundation
Interests
Timeline
Vice-President of Technology
Kognitiv Corporation
10.2022 - Current
Director of Custom Software Engineering
Accenture
10.2020 - 11.2022
Solutions Architect
Wide Open West
11.2018 - 11.2020
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry
York University
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