Summary
Shaan Barkat is a cloud security and infrastructure specialist with nine years of experience, currently advancing customer security postures as a Senior Technical Account Manager at Wiz in Chicago. He combines hands-on cloud engineering—Terraform, ARM, Azure DevOps, CI/CD—and practical security expertise to solve complex migration and operational challenges for enterprise clients. Previously he led cloud design and delivery at Accenture and built foundational Azure platforms and automation at AHEAD, pairing IaC with cost and performance optimization. Known for a problem-solving mindset and collaborative approach, he also has a software development background demonstrated during award-winning intern projects that integrated IoT, Azure Stream Analytics, and Power BI. Comfortable bridging technical and customer-facing roles, Shaan focuses on enabling teams to adopt secure, scalable cloud practices.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at DePaul University