Sohail Zakaria, CSM, CSPO

Sohail Zakaria is a transformational leader, technology evangelist, team mentor, and principal cloud solution architect with over 20 years of success. With a track record of leveraging existing and emerging technologies, he uncovers opportunities to direct trailblazing strategies that improve the overall delivery of products from idea to consumer.

Zakaria is an expert in designing and simplifying solutions and implementing application, infrastructure, and operation services for large-scale enterprises to start-ups. He has a proven track record with a growth mindset, providing unity, influence, collaboration, consistency, problem-solving, and support to increase organizational efficiencies.

Zakaria is a certified Scrum Master and Product Owner who mentors enterprise agile, cloud, and DevOps adoption and transformation for teams across multiple organizations. He inspires and motivates teams to embrace change and achieve success through continuous improvement. With hands-on expertise in application support, change management, cloud computing platforms, and deployment/implementation specialists, Zakaria architects and designs the continuous delivery process while establishing governance and leveraging the continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous monitoring processes to improve the infrastructure and software delivery.

Zakaria studied at Devry Institute of Technology in Chicago and has worked in many organizations, including Microsoft, Vsummits, Software Systems Technology Inc., Dell, Redbox, and Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago. As the global business architecture and sales strategy leader of Azure Migration at Microsoft, Zakaria was formerly the director of Azure VMware Solution- Global Black Belt (Americas) at Microsoft. He was also the board member of Vsummits, the principal Azure Global Black Belt - Intelligent Cloud - (Americas) at Microsoft, the national cloud solution architect at Microsoft, and the former director of Infrastructure, Technical Operations, & DevOps; executive advisor; principal consultant at Software Systems Technology Inc.