Mazhar Ali
Cloud Solutions Architect AWS-CSAA, AWS-CDVA
Dallas,TX
Summary
Dynamic Cloud Solutions Architect with 15+ years in software engineering, architecture, and leadership roles. Expert in designing and deploying scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions that improve operational efficiency and drive business outcomes.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Cloud Architect
JP Morgan & Chase
08.2022 - Current
- Designed and delivered an interactive architecture simulation tool translating complex cloud architecture decisions into actionable insights for 100+ applications, reducing architecture validation time by 90%, preventing costly misconfigurations, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Designed and developed an end-to-end cloud pattern recommendation platform automating infrastructure design decisions across six critical dimensions (resiliency, scalability, availability, performance, security, cost), reducing target-state architecture planning cycles from weeks to hours while enforcing best-practice compliance.
- Created wireframes and user flows for Architecture Workbench (AWB) to shape the application design, and designed the cloud architecture for AWB, implementing the end-to-end AWS infrastructure to ensure scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Contributed to data gathering and architecture discovery for AWB and integrated Elasticsearch to enhance search and analytics capabilities, resulting in a 40% improvement in query performance.
- Collaborated with the 55IP team to define their target cloud architecture and migration strategy, driving improvements in application scalability, performance, and efficiency.
- Designed and implemented 10+ reusable solution patterns to address complex business challenges, improving system performance and reducing operational toil by 25%, while guiding application teams on best practices and standards.
Lead Software Engineer
FIS
07.2015 - 07.2022
- Led a team on providing production support for multiple commercial off the shelf software (COTS) applications.
- Worked with multiple teams to architect, install and configure terminal (POS) management system applications from scratch to production environments.
- Designed and created highly available and scalable solutions in AWS cloud by using various AWS services like EC2, EKS, Lambda, VPC, ELB, RDS, Security Groups, NACLs, Elastic Load Balancers, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation Templates and Auto scaling.
- Experienced with writing terraform scripts to deploy and manage resources in AWS.
- Worked with multiple teams in designing and implementing a fix to prevent fraud activities on terminal management system saving nearly half a million dollars for the company.
- Worked with cross-functional teams (Network, Server, IAM, DB, Storage) to troubleshoot application issues.
- Managed changes, incidents and problems across multiple data center environments to protect production and disaster recovery systems critical to business success and delivered on the user stories created through Rally.
- Set up Disaster Recovery environments for applications and worked as DR Champion for the team.
Software Engineer
Impact Innovations Systems Inc.
03.2010 - 06.2015
- Customized Documentum's Webtop based on business requirements by creating custom configuration files, JSPs and Java classes.
- Helped in setting up offshore branch-office and in managing a team of 15 by providing them training on Documentum and its suite of products. Half of the team was contracted by EMC and the other half worked on building internal products.
- Built prototype for a product by converting C++ program to Java jar, which compressed the files by 30% and saved space in Documentum. A new product was built in the company using this prototype.
- Developed Documentum Foundation Classes (Java) and Documentum Foundation Services (Webservices) code against Content Server 6.7/7.2.
- Developed TBOs, SBOs, Java methods, WDK, jobs, registered tables, DQL/API scripts, workflows and worked with xCP, XSLT, XML, D2 and D2-Config.
Education
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
08.2006 - 12.2007
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical And Electronics
09.2001 - 05.2005
Skills
AWS
Terraform
Cloud Architecture Design & Design Patterns
Containers
CI/CD Pipelines
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Java
Python
Technical Guidance
Certification
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Timeline
Cloud Architect - JP Morgan & Chase
08.2022 - Current
Lead Software Engineer - FIS
07.2015 - 07.2022
Software Engineer - Impact Innovations Systems Inc.
03.2010 - 06.2015
Texas A&M University - Kingsville - Master of Science, Electrical Engineering
08.2006 - 12.2007
Shadan College of Engineering And Technology - Bachelor of Technology, Electrical And Electronics
09.2001 - 05.2005