Shahir Daya

Shahir Daya has extensive work experience, starting in 1992 with an industry internship at IBM. Shahir then worked as a summer internship program student at IBM in 1994. After that, they continued their career at IBM with various roles, including software engineer, software architect, executive architect, and IBM distinguished engineer. Shahir held positions in both the global business services and cloud engagement hub departments. Shahir'smost recent role at IBM was as the Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for Business Transformation Services. In 2023, Shahir Daya joined Zafin as the Chief Technology Officer.

Shahir Daya's education history begins with their enrollment at the Aga Khan Academy from 1984 to 1989. Although the field of study is not specified, it can be inferred that this period covers their O-level and A-level education. Subsequently, from 1990 to 1995, Shahir attended the University of Toronto, where they obtained a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Engineering.

In addition to their formal education, Shahir has acquired various certifications and achieved milestones throughout their career. Notably, they became a member of the IBM Academy of Technology in February 2022. They also obtained the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in December 2021.

Other certifications and accomplishments include being recognized as an IBM Academy of Technology Initiative Star Contributor in September 2021, completing the IBM Garage Essentials program in June 2021, and becoming an IBM Virtual Collaborator in April 2021. Shahir has also contributed to open source projects at IBM since June 2020.

Furthermore, they received a patent issuance in May 2019 and reached the Invention Plateau in January 2019 within IBM. Prior to that, in October 2018, Shahir achieved Architect Profession Certification - Level 3 Thought Leader, and in September 2018, they became an Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner and an IBM Intellectual Capital/Intellectual Property Creator.

Shahir's interest in continuous learning is evident through their completion of various online courses. For instance, they finished courses such as "Developing and Deploying Microservices with Microclimate" and "Microservices Fundamentals" on Coursera in August 2018. Additionally, they obtained the Cloud App Developer certification and the IBM Certified Application Developer - Cloud Platform V1 certification in July 2016.

Regarding technology-related certifications, Shahir gained the IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer certification in May 2007. More recently, they achieved the CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer certification from The Linux Foundation in July 2020 and the CCDAK: Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka certification from Confluent in August 2020.

Two additional certifications are mentioned, but no specific information is provided regarding the month and year obtained. These certifications include the IBM Certified Application Developer - Cloud Platform V2 from IBM Professional Certification and the IBM Mentor designation offered by IBM.