Mahmood K.

CEO

Rockwall, Texas, United States15 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in optimizing Azure cloud infrastructure solutions.
  • Proven track record in high-severity incident resolution.
  • Strong collaboration with engineering teams for product evolution.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Architect with expertise in Azure technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Microsoft AzureCloud Infrastructure

Other Skills

Analytic Problem SolvingWindows ServerInterpersonal SkillsInterpersonal RelationshipsNetworkingWindows AzureOperating SystemsVirtualizationMicrosoft OfficeDHCPProblem SolvingStorageVMLoad BalancingProject Coordination

About

Experienced Azure Cloud Solution Architect with a robust background in supporting, designing help, and implementing complex Azure Infrastructure solutions with a strong commitment to continuous learning, a growth mindset, and leveraging new technologies to help customers adopt cloud technologies  Strong Azure IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) experience and comfortable with PaaS  Azure Compute (VMs), Storage, SQL Servers, Azure Files, VNet, Azure Landing Zone, Azure Key Vault  Comfortable working with Python programing and Libraries Panda, NumPy, and Seaborn  Comfortable working with ARM template, Azure CLI, and PowerShell  Comfortable using various Linux distros including CentOS, Ubuntu, Rocky Linux, and RedHat (RHEL)  Working knowledge AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) containers, and CI/CD pipelines  Good working knowledge of IaC Terraform

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Cloud Solution Architect - Azure Technologies

Promoted

Dec 2021Dec 2024 · 3 yrs · Las Colinas, TX

  • Hands-on experience with our customers architectural cloud workload environment, along with proactive support, discovery, design, and optimized their workload running on Microsoft Azure
  • Conducted Discovery Assessments and led workshops, focusing on cost and performance optimization.
  • Collaborated with Azure Engineering teams to resolve platform issues and influence product evolution based on customer insights.
  • Delivered Well-Architected Framework reviews, achieving measurable improvements in performance, security, and cost efficiency.
Microsoft AzureAnalytic Problem SolvingWindows ServerInterpersonal SkillsInterpersonal RelationshipsNetworking+20

Support Escalation Engineer - Azure Technologies

Promoted

May 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Las Colinas, TX

  • Responded to high-severity incidents for enterprise clients, focusing on Infrastructure, VMs issues running both Windows and Linux OS various versions of RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Oracle-Linux
  • Troubleshot advanced networking issues, including NSGs, VNet Peering, Azure Load Balancer, App Gateway, and DNS latency
  • Led RCA efforts and reduced incident recurrence through detailed post-mortem reports and collaboration with Engineering teams
  • Supported BCDR implementations via Azure Site Recovery and optimized performance for VMSS and high-availability deployments
  • Delivered critical escalation support for enterprise customers across complex Azure IaaS and PaaS workloads, partnering closely with crossfunctional
  • engineering teams, product groups, and program managers to resolve high-severity issues
  • Built strong executive-level trust with stakeholders and strategic accounts through consistent, high-quality support, transparency, and reliable
  • communication during service-impacting incidents
  • Diagnosed and resolved deep technical issues, including VMs resiliency both Windows and Linux, storage latency, and application performance
  • Led Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and post-incident reviews, identifying systemic issues and driving actionable improvements to reduce recurrence
  • and enhance service reliability
  • Collaborated with Azure Engineering and Product Teams to resolve complex product-level bugs through customers’ feedback
  • Hands-on expertise with key Azure services, including ARM templates, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), VM Scale Sets (VMSS), Availability Sets, architectures, Azure Monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics, and Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for BCDR implementations
Microsoft AzureAnalytic Problem SolvingProblem SolvingCloud Infrastructure

Support Engineer - Azure Technologies

Jul 2019Apr 2020 · 9 mos · Las Colinas, TX

  • Delivered high-quality technical support for Azure IaaS customers, resolving complex connectivity issues involving VMs running both Windows
  • and Linux including RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Oracle-Linux, Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs), and cross-cloud integrations
  • Diagnosed and resolved infrastructure-level issues including ARM-based deployments, VM/VMSS provisioning, and Availability Sets, SSH access
  • Executed in-depth troubleshooting of Azure networking components, routing tables, and network security groups (NSGs)—ensuring secure and
  • performant cloud-to-cloud and hybrid connectivity
  • Led Root Cause Analysis (RCA) sessions for Severity A incidents, collaborating with internal teams to prevent recurrence, improve service
  • reliability, and document resolution workflows through detailed technical guides
  • Engaged in direct collaboration with Azure Engineering and Product Teams to address complex issues
Microsoft AzureAnalytic Problem SolvingProblem SolvingCloud Infrastructure

Wipro

3 roles

System Administrator | IT Infrastructure Support

Feb 2019Jul 2019 · 5 mos · On-site

  • Wipro's customer: PLC
  • Systems imaging of laptops, desktops, and workstations, configuration, applications installation and testing of systems integrity running Windows 7, 10
Analytic Problem SolvingProblem Solving

System Administrator | Technologist IT

Oct 2012Jan 2019 · 6 yrs 3 mos · On-site

  • Wipro's customer: Nexeo Solutions
  • System administration including Windows Server 2012R2, 2016 staging, installation, troubleshooting, deployment of Domain Controller, DHCP, DNS, VM (Virtual Machines) creation
  • SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) console installation of software, reimaging of Windows 7 & 10 machines
  • 3rd and 4th Level user-based support on campus and remote
  • Creation and deployment of VMs on Microsoft Azure platform, installation of Windows Servers 2012R2, 2016, Windows 10 deployments, migration, software management, installation, testing, on premises and VM cloud-based environments.
  • Working knowledge of VMware 6.0 including, installation, IP assignment, creation of VMs, ESXi setup, installation and configuration of VMs on vSphere client
  • Working knowledge of Ubuntu, CentOS, and Kali Linux
Analytic Problem SolvingProblem Solving

MS Hyper-V Lab Manager

Jun 2012Jun 2013 · 1 yr · On-site

  • Wipro customer: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
  • As Microsoft Hyper-V lab Manager, my responsibilities included building, racking, cabling, labeling building, decommissioning, operations and troubleshooting of HP Proliant Series DL-360, DL-380 Gen8 servers
  • c7000 Enclosures, Blade Servers Gen8, HP 3PAR storage, servers racks, HP 5120, 5920, 5930 including SAN switches and almost all new series switches management and trouble shooting
  • Firmware updates on racks of BIOS, OA (Onboard Administrator), iLO (Integrated Lights-Out), VC (Virtual-Connect), switches, and routers
  • Windows Server 2008R2, 2012 administration, Active Directory Domain Services, Virtual Machine management on MS Hyper-V, DHCP, PXE, WINS and DNS servers.
Problem Solving

Hewlett packard enterprise

2 roles

IT QCR Analyst (Contract)

Dec 2010Mar 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos · Houston, Texas Area · On-site

  • - Quality Case reviews, analysis, verification and validations.
Problem Solving

Testing Tech (Contract)

Dec 2008Mar 2012 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Houston, Texas Area · On-site

  • - Testing of HP racks with c7000 Enclosures, Blade and Storage servers on HP's customized software.
Problem Solving

American express

IT Helpdesk Office 2007 (Contract)

Jan 2010Nov 2010 · 10 mos · Houston, Texas Area · On-site

  • Microsoft Office 2007 support, installation and updates.

Bp

Cisco IP Phone Tech/ Desktop Support (Contract)

Jan 2010Sep 2010 · 8 mos · Houston, Texas Area · On-site

  • - Installation, testing and connectivity of Cisco 7975 IP phones.

Shell

Migration Tech/ Desktop support (Contract)

Jun 2009Dec 2009 · 6 mos · Houston, Texas Area · On-site

  • - Desktop support and users' migration from Windows XP to Windows 7

Chevron

Windows Vista Migration / Desktop Support Tech (Contract)

Jan 2009Jun 2009 · 5 mos · Houston, Texas Area · On-site

  • - Desktop support, users' migration from Windows XP to Windows Vista.

Alpha red inc. (defunct)

DC HW/Software Tech

Jan 2008Dec 2008 · 11 mos · Houston Downtown, TX · On-site

  • - Technical support, installation, troubleshooting on various flavors of Linux based servers including CentOS, Debian, Fedora and Open Suse

Education

Texas McCombs School of Business

Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Biz Apps Certificate

Nov 2023Sep 2024

Lone Star College

Associate of Arts - AA

Jan 2014Jan 2018

Karachi University

Bachelor of Arts - BA

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