Summary
Ashik Banjade is a Senior Cloud and AI Solution Engineer with over a decade of experience blending cloud architecture, product management, and go-to-market strategy to drive digital transformation for enterprise and government clients. He moved from hands-on engineering and team leadership at Booz Allen Hamilton to Microsoft to deepen work on Azure, Azure AI, OpenAI integrations, and agentic AI-driven developer experiences. Ashik excels at translating complex requirements into practical, cost-optimized cloud and AI solutions—often choosing technology stacks and CI/CD patterns that balance security, compliance, and operational efficiency. He’s built Kubernetes and GitOps platforms, led multi-cloud migrations, and applied AI-assisted development in his own SaaS ventures, giving him both practitioner and founder perspectives. Known as a pragmatic technologist and mentor, he pairs strategic product thinking with deep technical chops across DevOps, security, and developer tooling. Based in Vienna, VA, he’s often experimenting with infrastructure and learning new coding patterns, bringing a continuous-learning mindset to every engagement.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS) Business Administration and Management General, Associate of Science (AS) Business Administration and Management General at Northern Virginia Community College
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Computer Information Systems at James Madison University