Arsalan Ahmad --:--:-- Doha · GMT+3
Cloud Consultant · Google

Cloud infrastructure at national scale, across the Gulf.

I lead delivery for governments, national energy operators and sovereign institutions moving critical workloads to Google Cloud — and I help the people signing off those decisions understand what they are actually choosing.

Delivery region: Doha as operating base, with London as origin and delivery presence in Kuwait City, Dammam, Riyadh, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Muscat 30°N 28°N 26°N 24°N 46°E 50°E 54°E 58°E London ORIGIN Kuwait City Dammam Riyadh Doha OPERATING BASE Dubai Abu Dhabi Muscat
Delivery presence Operating base Origin route Positions plotted to true relative latitude & longitude
12

Years in infrastructure, consultancy and support

5

Countries of active delivery across the Gulf

13

Government ministries in a single programme

2018

Google Cloud certified since

Selected engagements

Programmes, not projects

Clients are described by sector; specific organisations are omitted deliberately. Filter by sector below.

National government

Digital transformation spanning 13 ministries

Architecture direction and delivery leadership across a national programme, working with ministerial and C-level stakeholders to align technical decisions with policy outcomes.

Lead architect
Oil & gas

Infrastructure lead across national energy operators

Regional infrastructure leadership spanning multiple Gulf states, covering landing zone design, networking and modernisation for operators running critical national assets.

Infrastructure lead
Sovereign wealth

Cloud foundations for a smart cities programme

Deployed the foundational cloud platform underpinning a sovereign fund's smart cities development effort.

Consultant
Media

In-person landing zone workshops

Led cloud foundations and landing zone design workshops with a regional media organisation's engineering and leadership teams.

Facilitator
Pharma & biotech

Cloud Security Posture Review

Conducted a full security posture review for a multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, with prioritised hardening recommendations.

Security advisory
Semiconductor

CI/CD practice implementation

Delivered continuous integration and deployment practice for a semiconductor and software design company.

Consultant
How I work

The architecture is rarely the hard part

The hard part is a room of people with different incentives agreeing on one. Most of my work sits between the design and the people accountable for it.

Ministerial and C-level stakeholder management

Translating unfamiliar technical concepts for the people who own the budget and the risk.

Technical decision-making

Architecture, networking, modernisation, DevOps and deployment methodology.

Strategic advisory

Influencing direction early, while changing it is still cheap.

Design documentation

Writing the technical design documents that outlast the engagement.

Programme management

Carrying architect, consultant and engineer duties concurrently where the work demands it.

Coaching and mentoring

Internal and external — building capability rather than dependency.

Beyond the engagement

Work that outlives the statement of work

2

Google Cloud exams co-authored

Contributed to the Professional DevOps Engineer and Associate Cloud Engineer certification exams.

1,822

CoffeeChats scheduled

Founded and run a weekly global Professional Services initiative connecting engineers across regions. Ongoing.

3

Cities trained in person

Delivered FAST Fabric partner training across Doha, Riyadh and Kuwait.

Track record

Twelve years, one direction

2022 —Cloud Consultant, Staff Technical Solutions ConsultantGoogle
2020 – 2022Professional Services Delivery Engineer IVRackspace Technology
2020Google Cloud Lead Engineer IIRackspace Technology
2018 – 2020Google Cloud Engineer I & II · Graduate Programme ManagerRackspace Technology
2017 – 2018Support Specialist II, Windows SystemsRackspace Technology
2016 – 2017Custom Service Desk TechnicianRackspace Technology
2014 – 2016Software Support Engineer & Product SpecialistAlphasoft Consultancy
2011BSc (Hons) Computer ScienceKingston University London
Certifications · year attained

Certified since 2018

Google Cloud 6

2022Professional DevOps Engineer
2020Professional Security Engineer
2020Professional Network Engineer
2019Professional Cloud Developer
2018Professional Cloud Architect
2018Associate Cloud Engineer

Kubernetes · CNCF 2

2022Certified Kubernetes Administrator
2020Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Infrastructure & platform 4

2020HashiCorp Terraform Associate
2017VMware Certified Associate 6 — Data Center Virtualization
2017Microsoft 70-410 — Installing & Configuring Windows Server
2016ITIL Foundation v3
Contact

Open to conversations about cloud at scale

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