Adeel Ifti
Security Architect at GSK
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdeel Ifti is a hands-on Security Architect with 10 years’ experience designing and securing large-scale cloud platforms for financial services, banking, and insurance across GCP and Azure. He combines deep technical skills in GKE, Kubernetes, Terraform, Istio and IaC with practical expertise in CSPM/CNAAP tools (Wiz, Prisma Cloud) and regulatory frameworks like NIST, GDPR and SOC2. A 4x cloud-certified practitioner, he has led complex migrations and platform builds for enterprises such as Vodafone, NatWest, Sky and GSK, focusing on Zero Trust, data protection and automated compliance. Comfortable coding in Java, Python and Go, he bridges development and security by embedding policy-as-code (OPA/Rego) and secrets management into CI/CD pipelines. He also publishes on cloud cost and architecture topics and is notable for translating large e‑commerce and telco-scale operational experience into secure, auditable cloud landing zones.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
London School of Economics and Political ScienceBachelor of Applied Science - BASc (Hons) Distributed Computing Systems, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc (Hons) Distributed Computing Systems at University of Greenwich
Github Skills (8)
azure3
backend2
devops2
kubernetes2
storage1
google-cloud-platform1
vault1
hashicorp-vault1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
adeel-ifti/azure-terraform-modules
Sep 2019 - Apr 2025
Various Azure and AKS terraform modules
Contributions:4 PRs, 70 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 7 months
azuredevopskubernetes
adeel-ifti/vault-gke-google-cloud
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Setting up Hashi Vault with KMS encrypted storage bucket as vault backend
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
hashicorp-vaultsettinggoogle-cloud-platformvaultencrypted
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