Summary
Izhar Hassan is a Solutions Architect based in Copenhagen with 12 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native, Big Data and IoT platforms across AdTech, Telecom, shipping and industrial automation. He has led end-to-end projects from edge gateways and device provisioning to cloud ingestion and serverless processing, combining hands-on engineering (Docker, Azure IoT Hub, AWS Lambda, Spark) with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, CDK). At companies like Alfa Laval, Maersk and Novo Nordisk he built microservices-based IoT and predictive maintenance pipelines that moved on-prem datalakes to managed cloud services and optimized streaming and batch analytics. Known for pragmatic performance tuning—such as 10x Spark speedups for anonymization workflows—he blends parallel programming research roots with practical DevOps and data engineering leadership.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Scientific Computing, Masters Scientific Computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Bachelors Information Technology, Bachelors Information Technology at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)