Umair Ishaq
Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUmair Ishaq is an Executive Director and seasoned technology leader with over two decades of experience driving cloud-native transformation, solutions architecture, and engineering teams across financial services and cloud platforms. He currently leads core banking modernization at JPMorgan Chase, applying AI/ML and Generative AI techniques to deliver modern customer experiences while ensuring regulatory compliance and faster feature delivery. Previously at AWS he specialized in containers and serverless architecture, contributing hands-on infrastructure code for notable projects like the Amazon EKS workshop using Terraform, CDK, and CloudFormation. Umair pairs strategic leadership with deep technical credentials—CKS, AWS Solutions Architect, and Docker certifications—that reflect continuous upskilling and operational rigor. He is known for translating complex client needs into pragmatic, scalable solutions and for mentoring teams through large-scale modernization efforts. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he combines enterprise-scale impact with a practitioner’s knack for infrastructure-as-code and event-driven architectures.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Alabama at BirminghamHigh School Secondary Certificate Pre-Engineering, High School Secondary Certificate Pre-Engineering at Cadet College Hasanabdal
English, Urdu, Hindi
Github Skills (20)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
aws-cdk10
terraform10
iks10
terraformer10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
k8s10
k10
aws-cloudformation9
lambdas8
codebuild8
lambda8
dockers7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/eks-workshop-v2
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Hands-on labs for Amazon EKS
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 65 commits, 15 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Umair focused on setting up and configuring infrastructure for the Amazon EKS workshop. They primarily worked on deploying and integrating various components using AWS CDK, Terraform, and CloudFormation. Contributions include defining the structure of the infrastructure using code, incorporating event-driven architecture using Lambda functions, and integrating with services such as CodeBuild. Further contributions were made by setting up the foundational components required for a fully operational Kubernetes cluster.
awsekseks-clusterkubernetes
umairishaq/virtualenvwrapper-customizations
Mar 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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