Farhan Farooq
Senior Solutions Architect - Public Sector - ANZ at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolFarhan Farooq is a Senior Solutions Architect specialising in public sector cloud and security for ANZ, with over a decade of hands-on experience across cloud migrations, cyber security architecture and managed services. Currently at AWS, he has progressed through regional roles supporting MENA and ANZ governments and agencies, turning security concerns into strategic advantages—including pragmatic designs for agentic AI and secure cloud adoption. His background spans consultancy and technical architecture at DarkMatter, EMC and large enterprise IT, giving him deep experience in ISO27001, ISMS, BCP/DR and secure systems integration. Farhan combines practitioner-level technical depth with advisory skills to align risk, compliance and business outcomes, and he often bridges policy-heavy public sector requirements with scalable cloud implementations. Based in Greater Melbourne, he holds a BSc (Hons) in Computing and an MBA in Corporate Information Management, a mix that underpins his focus on secure, business-aligned technology transformation.
5 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc.(Hons), Computing & information systems, BSc.(Hons), Computing & information systems at London Metropolitan UniversityMBA, Corporate Information Management, MBA, Corporate Information Management at University of Southern Queensland
English, Urdu, arabic (basic)
Github Skills (8)
governance10
reliability-engineering10
aws10
amazon-ecs10
reliability10
architecture10
security10
resiliency8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
awslabs/aws-well-architected-labs
May 2021 - May 2021
Hands on labs and code to help you learn, measure, and build using architectural best practices.
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
hands-onsecurityresiliencywell-architectedreliability-engineering
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