Mujahid Ahmed

Associate Consultant

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India15 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in cloud migration and DevOps strategies.
Proven track record of optimizing cloud solutions.
Strong advocate for customer experience and operational excellence.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Database Management expert with a focus on migration and optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud MigrationDevopsDatabase ManagementTechnical SupportDatabase Administration

Other Skills

BitbucketProject ManagementTerraformAWSAzureCloud StrategyAWS RDSAzure SQL DBAWS DMSSQL ServerMongoDBMicrosoft AzureSolution ArchitectureAmazon Simple Storage Service (S3)Amazon EC2

About

Cloud Architecture | Migration | DevOps Enablement | AI in Cloud Engineering | AWS | Azure | Terraform | Cloud Native | Data Platforms | Agile | Observability As a Cloud Engineering professional, I collaborate closely with development teams and enterprise stakeholders to shape resilient, secure, and cost-optimized cloud solutions. With hands-on expertise across cloud platforms, I contribute to design reviews, migration planning, and platform governance, while acting as a key advocate for customer experience and operational excellence. I specialize in translating complex customer needs into scalable cloud-native architectures and robust engineering solutions. My passion lies in applying bold, forward-thinking strategies leveraging cloud, DevOps, and AI to solve real-world business challenges. Core Expertise: Cloud Platforms: AWS (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB), Azure (SQL DB) DevOps & IaC: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Concourse, Docker, Kubernetes Scripting: Python, T-SQL, PowerShell, Bash Database Solutions: SQL Server, MongoDB Version Control: GitHub, Bitbucket Monitoring & Observability: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Splunk, Grafana, ELK ITSM Tools: ServiceNow, BMC Remedy Agile Delivery: Jira, Confluence, TDD AI Integration: Exploring the use of tools like ChatGPT & GitHub Copilot to enhance DevOps and cloud workflows With a strong focus on cloud advisory, modernization strategy, and agile ways of working, I’m passionate about driving innovation and efficiency at scale.

Experience

15 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Fidelity international

Technical Consultant

Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Hybrid

I enable customer teams to migrate their databases to Public Cloud. Consulting them in various phases of their cloud journey. Right from planning, preparation, migration to operational support.
Cloud strategy design for migrating 80% database platform to AWS/Azure by 2025.
IaC Terraform module development for AWS RDS and Azure SQL DB, enabling compnay
wide migration to cloud.
Setup KPI's to measure terraform module delivery (tags released, defect created/resolved, time to resolution, average story time, EPIC completed etc.)
Release 20+ tags/version per month on an average for terraform modules.
Design Pull Request and Release pipelines for terraform module delivery.
Advocating and adhering to Code quality using tools like tflint, tfsec, commitizen etc.
Setting up the Database Cloud Enablement - Roadmap, Vision, Ways of Working, Tooling.
Continuous engagement with Cloud Center of Excellence, Governance, FinOps and
Enablement teams.
Cloud Financial Management - capture estimated costs and tagging strategy.
Cloud Costing, TCO Analysis and Cost Optimization using AWS Cost Explorer and Apptio Cloudability.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into
robust and scalable architectural designs.
Technical partnership with Leadership Team along with stakeholder management.
Implement a comprehensive DevOps strategy, Ways of Working. Proven experience with CI/CD and DevOps.
Defining cloud service catalogue and operational model.

BitbucketProject ManagementTerraformAWSAzureCloud Migration+1

Expedia group

Senior Cloud Database Engineer

Mar 2016 – Apr 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

Optimize existing systems and applications for cloud deployment, ensuring reliability,
scalability, and security.
20+ Homogeneous and Heterogeneous database migration to AWS.
Preparing migration guidelines, Play by Play to facilitate cloud migration.
Managing 2100+ Expedia Group SQL and No-SQL databases on-premise and cloud
hosted.
Served as a go to resource i.e Cloud migration Specialist for lift & shift, refactor migration goals.
Help translate customers' needs and use cases into technical innovation and robust
engineering solutions on cloud.
Driving SQL Server and MongoDB local community meetups.
Saving upwards of $50,000 by executing database server data-center reduction program.
Proactive application stability improvements by Performance tuning, capacity planning
of revenue impacting critical databases.
Engineering initiatives like Benchmarking and stress testing database systems in cloud and on-premises.
Companywide learning initiatives like organizing triage, presenting sessions, writing blogs & newsletters.
Coaching/counseling, career development, mentoring of new joiners.

Cloud MigrationAWS DMSDatabase Management

Microsoft

SQL Server Support Engineer

Jan 2014 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Part of SQL Server Global technical support team
Applied bold new ideas to solving real-world customer problems
Collaboration with Account and Program managers to improve customer experience Handling Premier customers from Financial, Healthcare, FMCG etc. domains from USA and EMEA region under Critical Service level agreements
Tackling issue like (but not limited to) debugging, troubleshooting, performance tuning, High availability, Encryption
Acted as a consulting engineer for advisory cases, helping customers with architectural design questions while adopting SQL Server or Azure
Mentoring fellow engineers while continuing to write articles, blogs for internal support teams
Hosting and Participating local SQL Server community events

Microsoft AzureSolution ArchitectureTechnical SupportDatabase Management

Hcl technologies

SQL Server DBA

Dec 2010 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Noida

Administered Production, development and QA SQL Servers database systems for global clients like IMG, BMC, Saint Gobain, Lantiq and for insurance giants like Great American Insurance Company
Responsibilities ranged from basic to advanced database administration tasks on SQL Server features like Mirroring, Replication, Log Shipping, Clustering

Database Administration