Gulam Shakir
Chief Information Officer
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGulam Shakir is a seasoned technology executive with over two decades of software and architecture experience and 11 years in senior leadership, currently serving as Chief Information Officer at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. He has driven the agency’s cloud, data, and security strategy—previously holding CTO and Chief Data Officer roles—combining expertise in AI/ML, NLP, data lakes, zero-trust architecture, and multi-cloud identity solutions. Gulam is adept at translating complex compliance and TIC 3.0 requirements into pragmatic cloud and identity implementations, including WebAuthn/FIDO2 and enterprise IAM. His background ranges from hands-on system architecture and principal engineering to strategic platform leadership across both public sector and commercial companies. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who balances innovation in machine learning and data platforms with rigorous cybersecurity and governance. Based in Bethesda, Maryland, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a career-long focus on making large-scale data and identity systems both secure and operationally efficient.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
M.S Computer Science, M.S Computer Science at West Virginia UniversityB.E Electronics And Communication, B.E Electronics And Communication at University of Madras
Github Skills (30)
amazon10
amazon-web-services9
lua8
aws-amplify8
aws8
ide8
vscode7
neovim7
vim7
reactstrap7
nvim7
c-library6
cli6
event-driven6
libevent6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gshakir/ansible-recipes
Aug 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:30 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
gshakir/CloudDash
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
reactcloud-resourcescloudvisualizingreactjs
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