Summary
Shamir Charania is a cybersecurity, cloud, and DevOps executive with over a decade of hands-on experience building secure, scalable systems for startups and enterprises from Calgary. As Co-Founder and Managing Director of Keep Secure and current Chief Brain at Clyfar Solutions, he blends technical leadership with product and operational instincts to drive cloud adoption, FinOps, and DevSecOps initiatives. He has a proven track record delivering architecture, pre-sales, and managed service offerings at Microsoft partner levels and in senior roles across Hitachi, Stratiform, and Husky Energy. Known for translating developer-level insight into enterprise security strategy, he led application security testing programs, security working groups, and organizational change toward modern management practices. Comfortable moving between deep technical delivery and board-level strategy, he seeks executive or board roles where security, cloud economics, and product direction intersect. An engineer by training from Queen’s University, he pairs practical coding and architecture experience with a founder’s appetite for solving complex operational problems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Meadowridge
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Queen's University