About

Dr. Rizwan Ahmed, PhD is a highly innovative and results-driven technology executive with close to 2 decades of professional experience. He has a proven track record of leading the design, development, and program/project management of high technology projects and solutions while continuously improving processes and procedures. Dr. Rizwan has worked with multiple Fortune 100/1000 Enterprises, MSMEs, and cutting-edge technology startups in a variety of industries such as FinTech, Retail, Healthcare, Broadcast, Hospitality, EdTech, and Energy. Dr. Rizwan is the recipient of 25+ Global Technology awards for his professional contributions. He is regularly invited as a Speaker/Evangelist at National & International Conferences, Events, Panel Discussions & Webinars in India and abroad. He has delivered more than 300+ talks so far. Dr. Rizwan's key strengths include building and leading high-performance global software and digital engineering teams of 100+ resources, collaborating cross-functionally with different departments, partners, customers & a variety of personalities to improve products via continuous feedback for achieving business goals, and extensive experience of building and architecting Cloud native, multi-tenant, highly scalable & distributed systems. Dr. Rizwan's specialties include Pre-sales, P&L, Solutions Architect, Technical Architect, Product Strategy, Delivery & Project Management, Building & managing distributed teams, Agile Development, Operations, Mobile Application Development, Multi-tenant Cloud Native SaaS Enterprise Software, LAMP, Java & MS Technology stacks, AI & ML, Cloud (Amazon AWS, Azure GCP, Hybrid Cloud), RPA, BI & Analytics (PowerBI, Tableau, Altryx, AWS QuickSight), Data Science (Data Engineering, Data Modernization, Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics, DataOps), IoT, Blockchain, InfoSec, Mobile & Digital Forensics, and more. Currently, Dr. Rizwan is the Global Community Lead at Global AI Hub, the fastest-growing AI community in the world. He is responsible for building the business & establishing new avenues of growth for the company, driving large transition & transformation projects providing leadership & direction to optimize the overall operational efficiency. Prior to this, he was the Chief Technology Officer at delaPlex, where he pioneered Software Development as a Service (SDaaS), providing scalable resources to build, test, and deploy software. Dr. Rizwan holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Computer Science