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Ahmed H. Elghonamy

Summary

Innovative engineering leader with 25 years of experience in designing, building, and delivering data services and advanced analytics in the cloud and hybrid environments. Quickly establishes credibility through vision, business proficiency, strategy, and technical expertise. Expert in AI/ML integration, agile methodologies, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Builds and retains high performance teams by hiring, developing, and motivating skilled professionals.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Manager – Data Storage & API Services

Schneider Electric
12.2021 - Current
  • Leads a diverse team of product owners, scrum masters, architects, data engineers, data scientists, and QA engineers to design, architect, and deliver IoT and big data solutions
  • Collaborates across multiple teams within Schneider Digital to ensure the EcoStruxure IoT Data Storage Platform meets the cybersecurity standards set forth by the risk leadership
  • Streamlined the QA process by implementing automated testing frameworks, cutting testing time by 60%, and enhancing software quality and reliability
  • Achieved 99.5 uptime SLA of customer-facing Azure IoT applications that handle 250 million M2M requests per month and ingest over 15 billion device events per month
  • Drives data initiatives' implementation and ensures they are delivered on time and within budget
  • Leads the planning discussion to ensure clearly defined release plans for N+1 iterations by following Agile methodologies and practices
  • Managed to migrate a legacy 50 TB of MongoDB infrastructure into a high-performing managed service InfluxDB time series, saving an average of $2 million per year in licensing and administration costs
  • Provided technical and leadership to plan and architect 700 TB Azure Data Lake migration, ensuring the target architecture meets and exceeds the partners' experience
  • Responsible for planning and driving the efforts to migrate data services to Azure Landing Zone
  • Partner closely with the external vendors to ensure the contractual agreements and support meet the Schneider policies
  • Digital
  • Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
  • Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality results.
  • Improved team performance by providing comprehensive training and fostering a collaborative work environment.

Senior Enterprise Architect – Technology and Digital

McKinsey & Company
10.2019 - 12.2021
  • Provided technical expertise on internal architecture initiatives projects
  • Technical architect/ lead for decommissioning and modernizing legacy data stores into a robust and scalable platform using AWS technologies
  • Led the cloud and data strategies to define and architect the target state, infrastructure, CI/CD using Argo CD pipelines, capacity planning, and security requirements for the Knowledge applications
  • Led the initiative to define the disaster recovery resiliency standards for the following archetypes: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, BPaaS, On-Premises, and Shared Services

Group Manager, Cloud Services, Data & AI

Accenture/Avanade
04.2013 - 09.2019
  • Hands-on solution architect on Azure and AWS platforms with a clear vision of solutions, cloud data strategy, and analytics roadmap
  • Technical expertise leveraging Hadoop distributions (Hortonworks, HDInsight, EMR)
  • Designed and developed various streaming data pipelines by leveraging Python scripting, Python libraries, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Event Hub, Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, Databricks, and Azure Data Lake, and Spark Structure Streaming
  • Managed and led multi-million dollar projects through collaboration and managing onshore and offshore delivery centers
  • Team size ranged from 12 to 25 resources
  • Worked closely with various technical and business stakeholders to gather and understand business models, use cases, and requirements
  • Led presales and offering architecture activities and collaborated with the business development, sales team, and customer presentation
  • Provided complete solution delivery by providing RFP review, solution architecture, estimation, capacity planning, infrastructure estimates, and resource planning
  • Expertise in optimizing and choosing the proper Spark data abstraction layer, Spark processing jobs, Hive queries, and Hadoop cluster resources in the cloud (HDInsight)
  • Full involvement in code review and applying best practices as per the coding and platform specifications

Principal Architect

Inflexxion
01.2010 - 04.2013

Senior Microsoft Consultant

Burntsand Consulting
07.2006 - 01.2010

Senior DBA / Developer

Imperia Manufacturing Company
01.2002 - 06.2006

Senior Database Architect

Zooba.Com
06.2000 - 12.2001

Education

Master of Science - Data Analytics

Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT
09.2024

Master of Science - Information Technology Management

Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT
06.2021

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Pure Mathematics

Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt
05.1992

Skills

  • Enterprise Data Strategy
  • Team Development
  • Data Governance Expertise
  • Customer-Centric Mindset
  • Cloud Solutions Strategy
  • Analytical Strategy Development
  • Quantitative Predictive Modeling
  • Creative Problem-Solving
  • Data-Driven Insights
  • Functional Requirements Evaluation

Certification

  • PMI - Certified associate in project management (CAPM)
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
  • Certified Neo4j Professional
  • Databricks Certified Developer – Apache Spark 2.x Scala
  • Accenture Solution Integration Solution Architect - Certified
  • Amazon AWS Big Data Certified - Specialty
  • Amazon AWS certified developer
  • Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate – Data Engineering with Azure
  • Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert – Data Management and Analytics
  • Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert – Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
  • Hortonworks Certified Professional 2.x - Developer, Administrator and Java
  • Microsoft Big Data Analytics Solutions

Honors And Awards

  • Consultant of the Month for delivery excellence - Accenture
  • 2 x Results Realized, multiple Super-Hero awards - Avanade
  • Multiple Hero awards - Avanade
  • Delivery Excellence - Burntsand

Timeline

Sr. Manager – Data Storage & API Services

Schneider Electric
12.2021 - Current

Senior Enterprise Architect – Technology and Digital

McKinsey & Company
10.2019 - 12.2021

Group Manager, Cloud Services, Data & AI

Accenture/Avanade
04.2013 - 09.2019

Principal Architect

Inflexxion
01.2010 - 04.2013

Senior Microsoft Consultant

Burntsand Consulting
07.2006 - 01.2010

Senior DBA / Developer

Imperia Manufacturing Company
01.2002 - 06.2006

Senior Database Architect

Zooba.Com
06.2000 - 12.2001

Master of Science - Data Analytics

Western Governors University

Master of Science - Information Technology Management

Western Governors University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Pure Mathematics

Ain Shams University
Ahmed H. Elghonamy