Zaid Albirawi

Zaid Albirawi's work experience is as follows:

- Principal Solutions Architect at Tyk (2020-present): Zaid provides technical guidance and support to current and potential customers, demonstrating the capabilities of Tyk and conducting architecting and whiteboarding sessions. Zaid also acts as a "glue engineer" on top of their main responsibilities.

- Solutions Architect at Tyk (2021-2022): Zaid focused on infrastructure engineering and consulting for customers, specializing in high availability, scalability, and high performance in containerized environments. Zaid also played a key role in integrating deployment technologies such as OpenShift, k8s, Ansible, Helm, and Docker, resulting in significant revenue growth.

- Consulting Engineer at Tyk (2020-2021): Zaid managed client accounts, ensuring their satisfaction and retention. Zaid led complex infrastructure discussions and whiteboarding sessions, helping clients plan for deployments across multiple clouds and different deployment strategies and tools. Zaid also developed the Tyk Ansible offering to enable clients to install Tyk software on their own servers.

- Naval Warfare Officer at the Canadian Armed Forces (2017-present): Zaid served as an officer, identifying training gaps and organizing training days to increase the unit's readiness. Zaid also managed and tracked the training progress of the Junior Officers department.

- Senior Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at OSG (2019-2020): Zaid was responsible for the development of Check.ca using React.js and Laravel. Zaid later took on a leadership role in the team.

- Graduate Teaching Assistant at Western University (2017-2019): Zaid improved the course experience by designing programming assignments and automating the assignment marking process, resulting in increased availability for teaching assistants.

- Software Engineer Team Lead at Eighty8 Ventures (2017-2019): Zaid redesigned and redeveloped the wingdeals.com platform using React.js, leading to an increase in participating restaurants.

- Software Engineer at The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (2017-2018): Zaid worked as a software engineer.

- Software Engineer at Western University (2016-2017): Zaid worked as a software engineer.

- Software Engineer Team Lead and Associate Software Developer at London Life (2015-2016): Zaid prototyped a new design for the front-end application and managed a group of developers in the creation of a complex front-end data collecting React application. As an intern, they gained experience in different technology stacks, including Java Servlet development, React.js, and automated testing.

- Web Developer and Student Consultant at Western University (2014-2015): Zaid worked with the Manager of Science Technology Services at Western University to improve an existing web application. Zaid also worked as a student consultant.

- Porter and Busser at Best Western Plus Lamplighter Inn & Conference Centre (2011-2014): Zaid held various roles in the hospitality industry, serving as a porter and a busser.

Zaid Albirawi holds a Master's degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence, which they obtained from Western University between the years 2017 and 2022. Prior to their Master's degree, they also completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the same university, spanning from 2012 to 2017. In addition to their academic achievements, they have obtained several certifications including Certified Kubernetes Application Developer from The Linux Foundation in May 2023, Graph Developer - Associate and Graph Developer - Professional from Apollo GraphQL in July 2022. Zaid has also completed First Aid Training from St John Ambulance, although the specific month and year of obtaining this certification were not provided.