AJMAL FRIDOUS

• Oversee the secure development and deployment of the Electronic Flight Assistance (EFA) application, ensuring compliance with security best practices and industry standards.
• Lead a global team of architects, ensuring operational excellence and strategic alignment.
• Designed and implemented Agentic AI solutions for NOTAM processing, leveraging LLMs and autonomous agents to extract, analyze, and contextualize aviation data, improving decision-making speed, accuracy, and operational safety.
• Leading customer-facing technical workshops and strategy sessions, bridging executive vision with engineering execution for successful solution delivery.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, translating business objectives into scalable architecture blueprints, and guiding implementation with leading practices.
• Lead the design and implementation of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), ensuring that all users are authenticated and authorized before accessing network and data resources.
• Define and manage non-functional requirements (NFRs), such as performance, scalability, and reliability, to ensure that the EFA system meets operational and business objectives.
• Contribute to cross-functional strategy meetings to define the technical direction, long-term roadmap, and product feature priorities for the EFA application.
• Design and implement scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and services, optimizing for performance, security, and operational excellence.
• Manage and optimise the cloud ecosystem, ensuring infrastructure and applications meet performance, security, cost-effectiveness, and scalability goals.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to ensure seamless integration of cloud architecture into production, supporting ongoing innovation and improvement.

Enterprise DevSecOps Platform Architect

• Lead the design, testing, and maintenance of the DevSecOps platform, ensuring streamlined software release cycles, and integrating security measures at every stage of the development pipeline.
• Established technical governance frameworks to ensure instance health, reduce technical debt, and maintain platform performance, security, and scalability.
• Manage and configure secure network routes between AWS Public Cloud and on-premises LAN networks to ensure safe data transmission.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and cloud security teams to validate the architectural design and ensure compliance before product deployment.
• Coordinate with the data officer to classify and approve the hosting of classified data on different platforms, both on-premises and in the cloud.
• Implement Security Operations Center (SOC) monitoring to detect and respond to unauthorized access across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Integrate security measures seamlessly into the DevSecOps process, ensuring compliance with Airbus standards, while supporting the deployment of new applications.
• Partnered with cross-functional teams and business leaders to define platform strategy, governance models, and technical roadmaps, aligning enterprise architecture with long-term digital transformation goals.
• Mentor and manage a cross-functional team of 25 members, overseeing both offshore and on-site personnel to ensure high performance and alignment with organisational goals.

Lead DevSecOps Engineer

• Build, maintain, and support the enterprise DevOps platform, including AWS, Jenkins, GitHub, Vault, Docker, and Kubernetes, ensuring robust and scalable solutions at the enterprise level.
• Deploy, migrate, and maintain applications on Kubernetes clusters, writing Helm charts for microservices architecture.
• Lead design, debugging, and performance optimization for enterprise-scale DevOps solutions.
• Participate in high-level architecture discussions, recommending process improvements, suggesting architecture changes, and conducting tool evaluations to enhance DevOps capabilities.
• Provide expertise in scalable microservice-based architectures, translating them into real-world solutions for complex business challenges.
• Ensure configuration management across all software development projects and provide guidance on best practices.
• Design and implement disaster recovery plans for enterprise DevOps tools deployed in AWS cloud environments.
• Maintain enterprise-level GitHub servers and oversee their security and availability.
• Mentor and manage a team of 15 engineers, ensuring effective collaboration and high standards in both offshore and on-site teams.
• Maintained strong communication with clients throughout the design process to ensure alignment between their vision and the final product.

• Conducted in-depth research to inform decision-making processes and support strategic planning initiatives.
• Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure in AWS, including backups, patches, & scaling of infrastructure.
• Wrote Ansible & Terraform automation playbooks to deploy, configure, and manage all Production and Development servers in Cloud
• Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic apps into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.
• Advice Software development team on architecting and designing Web interfaces and infrastructure that safely and efficiently power cloud environment
• Automated build and deployment using Jenkins to reduce human error and speed up production processes.

• Implemented CI/CD process using AWS Code Pipeline and Code Deployment for development team, allowing for dozens of code updates every day with zero downtime.
• Streamlined software deployment processes for faster rollout and increased stability with automated tools and best practices.
• Resolved vulnerabilities by making improvements to network security in AWS cloud.
• Installed, configured, and maintained Linux servers in physical Data Center.
• Writing CloudFormation templates to deploy AWS resources as code.
• Designed and implemented new server standards for core business services.
• Writing CloudFormation templates to deploy AWS resources as code.
• Design and build cloud service models including Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service.
• Provided continued maintenance and development of bug fixes and patch sets for existing web applications.
• Provided hands-on support for end-users experiencing issues with Linux-based systems or applications, facilitating quick resolutions and minimal disruptions to productivity.