Faraz Ahmed

CTO

Australia19 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Led technology strategy across multiple domains.
  • Certified Agile Coach with extensive transformation experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Cloud Computing and Agile practices within the Healthcare and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingSolution Architecture

Other Skills

IT StrategyCommandStrategic Technology InitiativesNegotiationAzureC#XMLASP.NETWeb ApplicationsSoftware EngineeringScrumSDLCAgile MethodologiesSoftware Project ManagementAgile Project Management

About

0→1 & 0→N Builder | Technical Leadership and Strategy | Agile Coach | Customer Obsessed ✔️ Innovator and visionary: Led technology strategy for products across multiple domains. ✔️ 20+ years of solid experience in software engineering across Australia and Pakistan. ✔️ Remote management experience across different parts of the globe including India, UK and the US. Team sizes managed ~40 people across development, architecture, QA and support. ✔️ Extensive big-tech experience managing budgets upwards of ~10 million USD. ✔️ Agile evangelist: Certified Scrum Master, SAFe agilist and Agile Practitioner together with 15+ years of experience transforming small to large teams to agile practices. One of the first people in the world to have a formal agile certification when PMI released ACP in 2011. ✔️ Startup experience: managed SeekMechanic from inception to proof-of-concept.

Experience

19 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Atlassian

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2025Mar 2026 · 1 yr · Australia

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Software Development Manager, AWS Redshift

Apr 2022Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Cloud ComputingIT StrategySolution ArchitectureCommandStrategic Technology InitiativesNegotiation

Software Development Manager, AWS Networking

Sep 2021Apr 2022 · 7 mos

  • The AWS network underpins the great AWS services that we offer to customer. As part of the networking organisation, I am leading a cross-functional team (SysDE, SDE, NDE and DS) that looks after the network safety. We model, visualise and predict the impact of physical actions performed on the AWS network.
Cloud ComputingIT StrategySolution ArchitectureCommandStrategic Technology InitiativesNegotiation

Telstra health

4 roles

Senior Manager - Software Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2020Sep 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Heading the software development lifecycle for Virtual Care Solutions portfolio. This is a 360 degree role which sees me tackling everything from code reviews, architecture to technology strategy from a technical perspective in addition to helping manage finance, support and product strategy of the portfolio.
Cloud ComputingIT StrategySolution ArchitectureCommandStrategic Technology InitiativesNegotiation

Development Manager

Oct 2017Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Responsible for managing software development across the Emerging Markets Portfolio which includes Telehealth, Consumer and remote patient monitoring products. Responsible for setting up Cloud architecture on Azure for various products and integration of existing suite of Telstra Health products. Built a robust multi-region telehealth platform.
  • ⚙️ Technical Skills: Azure, VSTS (CI/CD), DAPPER, ReactJs, NodeJs, ASP.NET Core
Cloud ComputingIT StrategySolution ArchitectureCommandNegotiation

Delivery Lead

Jul 2016Oct 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Follows on from the last role. Additionally, the QA resources report directly into this role and I am responsible for the delivery and quality of the MyCareManager product. The role not only includes leadership and management but also has a hands on component to it as well.
  • ⚙️ Technical Skills: C#, Xamarin (Forms), MSMQ, NCrunch, MSTest, Moq, RhinoMocks
Cloud ComputingIT StrategySolution ArchitectureCommand

Development Team Lead

Jun 2015Jul 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • ☑ Leadership : Leading a team of 11 developers across 4 web/ mobile teams.
  • ☑ Process Improvement: Improving Agile process implementation across the organization.
  • ☑ Agile: Coaching scrum masters and helping them improve team output and productivity.
  • ☑ Engineering Practices: Initiating DevOps using MS Release Management for automated
  • deployments and PowerShell for custom actions and tools.
  • ☑ Domain: Part of the integration team using FHIR standards.
  • ⚙️ Technical skills: C#, ASP.NET (Webforms, MVC), SQL Server, Azure, GIT, TFVC, FHIR
Cloud ComputingIT StrategySolution ArchitectureCommand

Seekmechanic

Co-Founder | CTO

Dec 2018Jun 2019 · 6 mos · Melbourne, Australia

  • We provide a platform that allows people to post their vehicle jobs and get bids from workshops. The platform is all about giving more control to both parties involved in the transaction.
Cloud ComputingIT StrategySolution ArchitectureCommand

Synergetic management systems

Web Developer

Nov 2013May 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Melbourne, Australia

  • ■ Part of an 11 member software development team
  • ■ Developing and maintaining a suite of web based student management products as a team using
  • C#
  • Javascript (VanillaJS, JQuery, underscore, knockoutjs)
  • SQL (2008, 2012)
  • ■ Reverse-engineering legacy code and documenting existing workflows.
  • ■ Helped the team transition from a pure waterfall methodology to agile.
  • ■ Helped the team setup Kanban board/ Information radiator to communicate the team position to the organization
  • ■ Helped the management develop and evolve Scrum ceremonies from Daily Standups to Sprint retrospectives.
  • ■ Provided inputs about how tasks could be broken down into manageable ‘chunks’ of work making tracking easier.
  • ■ Instilled the idea of ‘themes’ for a sprint allowing development team to work towards a common goal rather than haphazard development.
  • ■ Scrum Master.
Cloud ComputingIT StrategySolution ArchitectureCommand

Oa systems, inc

2 roles

Software Team Lead

Jul 2011Jul 2013 · 2 yrs

  • ■ Pioneer and active proponent of agile practices and activities throughout the organization. One of the first people to earn the Agile Practitioner Certification from PMI.
  • ■ Contributed as a developer, requirements engineer, scrum master and project manager during the development of the flagship product of the organization- EMR solution. Key member in every phase of the product throughout the SDLC.
  • ■ Inducted a strong sense of evolvement throughout the Software development department allowing teams to form based on their interests and allowing people to take ownership of their work resulting in positive outcomes.

Sr. Software Engineer

Jan 2006Jul 2011 · 5 yrs 6 mos

  • ■ Successfully developed and launched a number of healthcare applications including an Electronic Prescription Writer and Clinical Billing.
  • ■ Implemented various EDI message formats ranging from X12 to NCPDP.
  • ■ Successfully introduced and incorporated the extensive use of XML in applications ranging from its use in database transactions to a reliable medium as a data exchange standard.
  • ■ Successfully learnt and taught various Microsoft technologies and architectures to the organization from scratch ranging from ASP.NET to WPF and N-Tier architecture to MVVM.
  • ■ Successfully Integrated the Electronic Prescription Writing software with vendors (RxHub and Surescripts independently, before their merger) leading to certification by these vendors.
  • ■ Successfully built an Rxcure patient portal which was integrated with our prescription writing system and with Google Health.
  • ■ Leading, mentoring and conducting internal workshops for other software developers in order to help them to become better resources for the organization.
  • ■ Part of an initiative to improve the organization-wide processes. My role involves constant presentation of new and upcoming ways to improve our organization in terms of processes, resources and technology to the upper management.
  • ■ Incorporated MEDCIN with our EMR solution.

Szabist

Visiting Faculty (Computing)

Aug 2010Nov 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos · Karachi, Pakistan

  • Mentoring and motivating young professionals from all over Pakistan to become software engineers. Research Adviser for Independent study students.
  • Taught the following courses during my tenure
  • 1) Software Engineering Analysis (MS)
  • 2) Advanced Web Technologies (MS)
  • 3) Software Quality Assurance (BS)
  • 4) Software Engineering I (BS)

Bank al habib limited

Corporate Trainer .NET Solutions

Jun 2009Aug 2009 · 2 mos · Karachi

  • 1) Successfully taught 15 developers with minimal knowledge of .NET on how to develop architecturally sound .NET applications.
  • 2) Stressed upon the basic need of using a source control tool such as Visual Source Safe for maintaining code integrity and collaborating effectively.

Algorithm consulting

Software Engineer

Jan 2005Jan 2005 · 0 mo · Karachi

  • Development and Maintenance tasks of a textile ERP solution

Education

Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology

Master of Science - MS — IT

Jan 2007Jan 2009

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

Bachelor of Science - BS — Computer Science

Jan 2001Jan 2005

Manarat Jeddah

A-Levels

Jan 1996Jan 1999

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