Shahid Iqbal
Principal Platform Architect
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolShahid Iqbal is a Principal Platform Architect based in Auckland with over a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms, specialising in Azure, Kubernetes and containerisation. As an Azure MVP and certified Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions professional, he blends hands-on DevOps practice with strategic platform design to deliver and maintain production systems for multinational clients. He leads platform capability and operational design at Auror, having progressed through senior technical roles and run a freelance Azure consultancy focused on cloud adoption and optimisation. An active community speaker and contributor, Shahid has improved authentication and resilience in open-source projects like allReady, showing attention to secure, user-facing integrations. His background in medicinal chemistry turned software architect hints at a pragmatic, analytical approach to solving complex engineering and operational problems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
Github Skills (11)
unit-testing10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
disaster-recovery4
incident-response4
first-responder4
readiness3
prepare3
ready3
camp3
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
HTBox/allReady
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
This repo contains the code for allReady, an open-source solution focused on increasing awareness, efficiency and impact of preparedness campaigns as they are delivered by humanitarian and disaster response organizations in local communities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 43 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shahid's commits primarily focus on resolving issues related to social login errors within the AllReady application. They addressed failures in Twitter authentication, corrected issues arising from incomplete social login processes, and implemented error handling for remote failures, redirecting users back to the login page. Furthermore, the user modified unit tests related to the AccountController, ensuring correct behavior for login scenarios including confirming email requirements, and handling of locked-out accounts. These changes indicate a focus on improving the authentication and authorization components of the application.
awarenesspreparednesscampaignsc-sharporganizations
stuartleeks/meetup-prize-draw
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
A simple .NET Core sample application showing how to create an in-browser prize draw application for a meetup event, inspired by https://github.com/dotnetoxford/prizedraw
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 comments, 3 issues in 2 years 8 months
prizedotnetbrowserdrawnet-core
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