Abbas Soltanian
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Architect and Software Developer
Montreal, QC, Canada
Toptal member since December 21, 2022
Abbas has a PhD in cloud computing and 8+ years of expertise in designing scalable and elastic cloud-based architectures. With 5+ years of experience in the cloud engineering domain, he deploys the designed architecture in public clouds such as AWS and Kubernetes. Abbas is a hands-on professional who leads engineers in creating infrastructure deployment pipelines. He works with different tools and platforms, including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bitbucket, Datadog, and Git.
Portfolio
Experience
- Cloud Computing - 10 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 8 years
- Microservices Architecture - 7 years
- Git - 5 years
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - 5 years
- Terraform - 5 years
- Pipelines - 5 years
- Kubernetes - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Bitbucket, Datadog, Linux, Git, Kubernetes, Pipelines, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed and developed is the SaaS architecture of Genvid Technologies for massively interactive live streaming events.
Work Experience
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
OpsGuru
- Offered profound technical expertise and leadership encompassing various technologies. Acted as the go-to individual for driving tool selection, resolving intricate engineering challenges, and advising on best practices throughout engagements.
- Headed whiteboard design sessions with internal and external team members.
- Identified and communicated technical risks as they emerged throughout a project.
- Extracted project requirements during technical discovery sessions, defined deliverables to meet those requirements, and broke down those deliverables into a technical roadmap.
- Led teams of cloud engineers to execute project roadmaps. Provided guidance on technical tasks, priorities, and technical assistance when needed.
- Managed scope within customer engagements. Identified changing requirements as they arose, determined their impact on scope, and ensured all stakeholders were aware and agreed with the changes.
- Maintained a close working relationship as a trusted advisor with the customer. Set clear expectations, challenged assumptions, solicited feedback, and took ownership of project deliverables.
Senior Cloud Architect and Engineer
Genvid Technologies
- Designed and developed highly available cloud-based services using Kubernetes and AWS EKS.
- Contributed to the design and implementation of cloud services and their infrastructure.
- Documented integration solutions and designs and implemented APIs.
- Created cost models for different cloud-based projects and presented them to the stakeholders.
- Advised on highly available and secure cloud architectures.
- Performed optimization reviews for efficiency, performance, and cost.
Cloud Solutions Architect
Hitachi Vantara
- Participated in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new and migrating existing applications, software, and services to public cloud platforms.
- Conducted deep-dive hands-on education and training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using public cloud services.
- Acted as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering, and support teams.
- Designed the required architecture based on the requirements of the client.
- Wrote customer-facing publications such as whitepapers and tutorials.
Cloud Computing Research Scientist
Ericsson
- Built scalable and elastic cloud architectures in all SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS layers.
- Created scalable algorithms for resource allocation to reduce cost and increase QoS.
- Designed and developed APIs and RESTful web services.
Experience
Genvid Technologies SaaS
Education
PhD in Information Systems Engineering
Concordia University - Montreal, Canada
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
Infrastructure Automation with Terraform
Udemy
Skills
Tools
Terraform, Amazon EKS, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Bitbucket, Git
Paradigms
Microservices Architecture, REST, DevOps
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, AWS IoT
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Datadog
Languages
PHP, Java, Go, Bash Script
Other
Cloud Computing, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), APIs, Architecture, Professional Services, Research, Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Publication, University Teaching, Pipelines, Algorithms, Technical Writing, Amazon RDS, CI/CD Pipelines
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