Summary
Shahram Jalaliniya is a Principal Architect in the Insurance Solutions Group at Cognizant with nine years of experience in enterprise architecture, IT governance and service management, and a longer track record in architecture and IT leadership roles. He blends academic rigor—PhD in HCI and postdoctoral work on context-aware and gaze-interaction systems—with practical enterprise delivery, having led EA programs for insurers, government agencies and national infrastructure projects. Based in Burlington, Ontario, he also teaches at Centennial College, channeling research into curriculum and mentoring the next generation of practitioners. Unusually for an enterprise architect, his background spans wearable/mixed-reality interaction research and large-scale e‑health and national card solutions, giving him a rare ability to connect human-centered design with regulatory, security and operational constraints.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software and Information technology, Master's degree, Software and Information technology at IT-Universitetet i København
MSc., Information Systems, MSc., Information Systems at Lund University
PhD, HCI, PhD, HCI at IT University of Copenhagen
BSC, Industrial Engineering, BSC, Industrial Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Swedish, English, Persian, Turkish, Danish