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Sajid Akhtar

Director Consulting - Cloud Advisory at UST Evolve

Sajid Akhtar is a seasoned professional with extensive expertise in Strategic Advisory Consulting, Evangelism, Cloud Computing (IaaS, SaaS, DRaaS, Storage-a-a-S, Backup-a-a-S) Infrastructure, Pre-Sales, Business Development, Managed services, and Account Management. He possesses a strong track record of innovation, thought leadership, and client roadmap to cloud migration. Sajid has a diverse skill set including Performance & Productivity Improvement Solutions, Joint Venture Partnership & Consulting, Engineering Management/Leadership/Development, Negotiation & Influence skills, Pre-Sales & Business development, and Public Speaking.

He specializes in Enterprise Technology Roadmaps and Transformation Strategies, Private Cloud Implementation, Multi-cloud/Hybrid cloud solutions, Cloud Computing adoption roadmap for Enterprises, ROI models, Performance Engineering, Infrastructure Consolidation and Optimization, Enterprise Social Collaboration, Vendor Management, Evangelism, Workshops, Managing customer RFPs, RFRs, RFIs, and Proof of Concept. Sajid's expertise also includes Digital Transformation, Datacenter Operations, Cloud Technology, AWS/GCP/Azure/Alibaba/OpenSource Cloud/OpenStack, Program Management, Collaboration, and Client Interfacing. He holds the distinction of being a Google Champion under the Google Cloud - GSI joint initiative.

Sajid Akhtar completed his Bachelor Of Technology in Computer Science from Biju Pattnaik University Of Technology. He received his education from Silicon Institute Of Technology, Biju Patnaik University Of Technology in Odisha, and Kalinga Public High School.

Throughout his career, Sajid has held significant roles in reputed organizations. He served as Advisory Strategy Consulting at VMware, Community Organizer at OpenStack India User Group, OpenStack Regional Ambassador at OpenStack, Advisory Consulting (AWS - GCP) at Wipro Consulting, Platform Evangelist - Cloud at Jio, TME-Opensource Cloud Solutions at NetApp, PMO at Mphasis (an HP company), and in Support Function - NOC at Unisys.