Sidra Irshad

Sidra Irshad's work experience includes:

- Currently working as a Software Development Manager - Cloud at Xgrid.co since July 2022.

- Previously worked as a Technical Lead Software Systems & DevOps at Xgrid.co from April 2022 to August 2022.

- Worked as a Principal Software Engineer (DevOps) at Afiniti from August 2020 to June 2022.

- Served as a Lead Platform Engineer at Afiniti from March 2022 to April 2022.

- Worked as a Teamlead Devops at Software Productivity Strategists, Inc. (SPS) from February 2020 to April 2020.

- Prior to that, worked as an Infrastructure Consultant at Foremost Groups, Inc. with responsibilities including project planning for IT setups, IoT platform architecture, micro-services design, and recruitment & team building.

- Worked as a DevOps Design Engineer at Xgrid.co where responsibilities included setting up end-to-end product scalability test infrastructure and developing customer use-cases on the test infrastructure.

- Worked as an Instructor at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, responsible for lab hands-on and assignment checking & evaluation.

- A Research Associate at nexGIN RC, Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center where tasks included leading a team to develop a mobile application for a research project and conducting field surveys.

- Served as a Research Associate at COMSATS University, collaborating on projects such as Blue Brain Grid Setup and Cellular Jamming and Anti-Jamming Techniques.

- Started career as a NOC Infrastructure Engineer at LMKR, handling infrastructure management and enhancement, network operations, services and systems operations, end user management and support desk supervision/management, and systems administration of live Linux/Windows servers. Was also involved in various projects such as Tivoli Deployment, Enterprise Network Revamp, and Online Training Management System deployment.

Sidra Irshad completed their Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences between the years 2002 and 2006. Additionally, they obtained a certification as an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in March 2022.