Engineering Leadership

Cloud platforms / applied AI / teams that deliver

ipsum@khadersyed.comgithub.com/khadersyed

Profile

Seasoned IT leader with more than 20 years of experience designing and optimizing cloud platforms across AWS and Azure, with a growing focus on practical AI innovation.

I build useful systems in difficult environments: platforms that are secure, observable, cost-effective, and understandable to the teams responsible for them. My work spans technical strategy, hands-on architecture, delivery, and the steady work of helping people do their best work together.

Core strengths

Leadership

Building and guiding teams through ambiguity, change, and delivery pressure.

Platform strategy

Designing secure, observable, cost-effective platforms that can grow with the organization.

Product delivery

Turning complex operational and clinical workflows into clear, dependable software.

Applied AI

Using AI pragmatically to reduce friction, improve decisions, and solve difficult business problems.

Experience

myLaurel Health

New York, NY

VP of Engineering / Director of Engineering / Product Manager / Principal Engineer

  • Led a team of three full-stack engineers and partnered with Product and Clinical Operations to turn complex workflows into reliable software.
  • Architected and built the engineering stack from the ground up, including a scheduling portal integrated with AthenaHealth and Axle Health.
  • Set technical direction across product design, development, security, and process rollout, establishing practices that supported SOC 2 compliance.

Earlier experience

Quartet Health

New York, NY

Manager, DevOps Engineering

  • Led a DevOps team responsible for automation, security, and engineering support across a multi-account AWS environment.
  • Automated infrastructure with Terraform, Atlantis, Open Policy Agent, and Ansible while integrating AWS accounts with SSO and OneLogin.
  • Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 20%, built a resilient SFTP pipeline, and helped rearchitect the EKS cluster.

AiCure

New York, NY

Director of DevSecOps / Principal Engineer

  • Led the migration of a production AWS account away from an MSP with zero impact on operations, reducing infrastructure costs by 50% to 60%.
  • Replaced manual deployment practices with immutable Terraform orchestration and a secure, cloud-native CI/CD pipeline.
  • Owned platform security, observability, disaster recovery, and compliance work in a HIPAA-regulated environment.

Sprinklr

New York, NY

Team Manager, US DevOps

  • Managed and mentored a team of nine DevOps engineers across release delivery, production support, automation, and cloud orchestration.
  • Led migrations from HP OpenStack and Rackspace to Microsoft Azure while standardizing AWS and Azure environments with Terraform and Ansible.

Alcatel-Lucent NZ

Wellington, New Zealand

Technical Project Manager / Team Manager / Senior Design Engineer

  • Managed network designers and systems engineers delivering telecommunications projects from planning through production, including an optical network upgrade and the integration of more than 700 network elements into security operations tooling.

Earlier experience

New Zealand, Singapore, and India

Systems Administrator / Senior Systems Engineer / Solutions Architect / Software Engineer

  • Earlier roles at iSERVE, Bubble Motion, Hewlett Packard-ISO, and IBM Global Services established a foundation in Linux, software engineering, systems administration, and solution architecture.

Education

MFA in Creative Writing

The New School, New York, NY

Bachelor of Engineering

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India