Enterprise Cloud & AI Platform Leader
Shafiq sets the cloud and AI platform direction an engineering organization builds on — turning fragmented infrastructure into governed, self-service leverage, and aligning that platform with what the business is actually trying to ship.
Staff Platform Architect and enterprise platform leader who operates on two planes at once: the technical plane — enterprise cloud architecture, application hosting, API management, and the AI control plane that every product team depends on — and the strategic plane, where platform investment gets translated into business outcomes, funded, and aligned across teams and leadership. The throughline is leverage: standardize the hard parts, expose the right primitives, keep security and cost as design inputs rather than afterthoughts, and make the platform a product that engineers actually want to build on. He is the rare architect who is fluent in both the deep technical trade-off and the executive conversation that decides whether it happens.
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70k+
infrastructure resources migrated and modernized without losing delivery speed
700+
services kept shipping through a platform-wide re-platforming
1B+
monthly API gateway requests architected and operated at scale
200+
Azure subscriptions hardened through hub-and-spoke zero-trust networking
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Three platform systems the rest of the org now builds on — a governed AI control plane, a 70k-resource migration run without losing a day of delivery, and a zero-trust bootstrap that turns acquisitions into onboarded teams.
- — 70k+ resources migrated from Terraform Cloud to Scalr with zero delivery interruption
- — 700+ services preserved with uninterrupted deployment velocity through the migration
- — 2+ internal agentic applications powered safely by the governed AI control plane
- — 1B+ monthly requests served through enterprise API gateway architecture
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