hi, i'm Ali Syed
I am a deeply-experienced and seasoned technology executive. I have a proven track record in tech leadership, team scaling, rapid growth environments, acquisition growth, wholistic technology consulting, digital transformation, and building quick profitability with scale. I have served clients and companies from startup to global with teams around the block to around the world. My purview has included new ventures, private equity to Fortune 1000 companies.
a little about me
Startup Technology Advisor to silicon valley startups
Last exit was Datapi.io (A UC Berkeley "SkyDeck" company - fall 2018)
I AM currently consulting in cloud, infosec, and IT through amalz.com
Decisive and energetic high-tech engineering executive effective working at both strategic and tactical levels. Deliver leading edge technology innovation in product development, digital transformation, and process improvement. Skilled in building and growing high performing teams that deliver on time and with quality. Combine deep technology skills, business acumen, and broad based management experience to create competitive advantage.
HANDS-ON CONSULTING HELP:
TEMPORARY CEO/CIO/CTO/HEAD OF PRODUCT | PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
DEVOPS | CI/CD | HYBRID HOSTING | CLOUD MIGRATIONS | INFOSEC COMPLIANCE | PENETRATION TESTING | INFORMATION SECURITY
HIPPA, SOC2, ISO27001, FDA 21 CFR 11, CSA STAR, GDPR, CCPA, COBIT, NIST, FISMA, & FedRAMP
AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, & Data Centers
Jira, Confluence, StatusPage, BitBucket, SalesForce, ServiceNow, Nagios, Sensu, Zendesk
Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, PowerBI, Power Apps, Sharepoint, Pendo
Oracle, Exasol, MySQL, Vectorwise, SQL Server, Memcached, Access, Mongo, Redis, Snowflake
Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop, Spark, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, GrayLogs, Splunk
Jenkins, Ansible, Bamboo, Maven, Ant, Gradle, TerraForm, GIT, Chef, Puppet, Toad, Docker, Vagrant
Snort, SIEMonster, VPN, OSSEC, Barracuda, Cisco, WatchGuard, Fortinet, Fortify
Long-Term Vision Creation
Professional Networking
Cost Modeling
Team Building, People Development & Mentoring
Implementation of Roadmap Development
Business Process Reengineering
Client Relationship Management
AGILE, SCRUM, Waterfall Methodologies
IT Policies, Processes & Procedure
Business Case Development
Capital Expenditure Project Leadership
Budget Forecasting, Planning & Management
