Summary
Joshua Allard is a Principal Solutions Architect with 11 years of experience designing cloud-native and enterprise IT solutions across Azure, AWS, and GCP, currently leading presales and managed service architecture for Canada’s restricted market. He combines technical depth—from VMware and hybrid Azure architectures to Kubernetes and multi-cloud deployments—with a proven ability to convert complex requirements into measurable sales outcomes and repeatable professional services. Joshua has consistently overachieved targets (264% of plan at Citrix), built and scaled go-to-market engineering teams, and modernized procurement and channel processes while operating as the first Sales Engineer in Canada at Verkada. Comfortable at the intersection of technical delivery and stakeholder engagement, he has led certification programs, technical escalations, and large professional services portfolios for public sector and enterprise clients. Based in Vancouver, he brings a pragmatic, product-minded approach to architecture that prioritizes operational resilience and buyer enablement—an uncommon blend of presales acumen and hands-on engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
English