Zaid Albirawi

Zaid Albirawi has a diverse range of work experience in various roles and industries.

From 2020 to the present, they have been working at Tyk as a Principal Solutions Architect, responsible for infrastructure engineering and consulting for customers. Zaid has been successful in unlocking significant revenue by investigating and writing integrations for different deployment technologies such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, Ansible, Helm, and Docker.

Prior to their role at Tyk, Zaid worked at Canadian Armed Forces | Forces armées canadiennes as a Naval Warfare Officer from 2017 to 2022. In this role, they identified training gaps and organized training days, resulting in a 20% increase in the unit's readiness and recognition as the top reserve unit in Canada. Zaid also managed and tracked the training progress of junior officers.

From 2019 to 2020, Zaid worked at OSG as a Senior Software Engineer and later as a Senior Software Engineer Team Lead. During this time, they led the development of Check.ca using React.js and Laravel.

Zaid also gained experience as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Western University from 2017 to 2019, where they improved the course experience by designing programming assignments and automated assignment marking, resulting in increased TA availability.

Additionally, Zaid worked at Eighty8 Ventures as a Software Engineer Team Lead, where they redesigned and redeveloped wingdeals.com as a React.js application, increasing the number of participating restaurants.

Throughout their career, Zaid has also held positions at The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, London Life, and Western University in software engineering and web development roles.

Before their professional career, Zaid worked as a Porter and Busser at Best Western Plus Lamplighter Inn & Conference Centre.

Overall, Zaid Albirawi has demonstrated expertise in solutions architecture, infrastructure engineering, software engineering, team leadership, and web development across various industries.

Zaid Albirawi completed their education at Western University. Zaid obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Western University, graduating in 2017. Following that, they pursued a Master's degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence from the same institution, which they completed in 2022.

In addition to their formal education, Zaid also obtained various certifications. In July 2022, they acquired certifications as a Graph Developer - Associate and a Graph Developer - Professional from Apollo GraphQL. Zaid also obtained certifications in Istio Service Mesh and OpenShift for the Absolute Beginners from KodeKloud in the same month and year.

Furthermore, Zaid completed the Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng at Stanford University through Coursera in September 2017. Zaid also obtained First Aid Training from St John Ambulance, although the specific month and year of completion are not provided.