Mirza Ahmed
Technical Architect at Self-employed
Innisfil, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMirza Ahmed is a Technical Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering secure, scalable multi-cloud and network automation solutions across finance, airports, and enterprise environments. He blends deep networking pedigree (SDN, MPLS, F5, Palo Alto, NSX) with cloud-native infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform, Ansible, Python and CI/CD pipelines on AWS, Azure and GCP. As a consultant and independent architect he’s led mergers, DR and SDDC/NSX designs, automated firewall and load‑balancer operations, and built on‑demand Kubernetes and zero‑touch SD‑WAN deployments. Known for driving People, Process & Technology change, he pairs strategic influence with day‑to‑day engineering, mentoring teams and institutionalizing NetOps practices. Based in Innisfil, Ontario, he brings a pragmatic compliance‑as‑code mindset that surfaced during pharmaceutical and security engagements. His background running both enterprise program deliveries and self‑directed engineering projects makes him equally effective shaping architecture and shipping production automation.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
ipSpace Building Network Automation Solutions courseBachelors of Sciences, Computer Science, Bachelors of Sciences, Computer Science at Preston Institute of Management, Science and Technology
English, Urdu, German
Github Skills (91)
parser10
python10
cisco-ios10
automation-framework10
test-automation-framework10
cisco10
genie10
test-automation10
network-automation10
napalm10
parse10
alpine-linux9
ansible9
vagrant9
text-template9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mirzawaqasahmed/NetOps_Heresy
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
mirzawaqasahmed/genieparser
Dec 2019 - May 2020
sub-component of Genie that parse the device output into structured datastructure
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 months
datastructureparsegeniestructured
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