Ilyas Iqbal is contributing in IT industry for over 15 years while successfully designed and deployed over 30 commercial projects from various industries including, FinTech, MedTech, Digital Media & Marketing, Telecom and E- commerce.
He earned MSc in Software Engineering & Management from Linköping University, Sweden. He is also Certified SAFe® 6 POPM (Product Owner/Product Manager)
The positions he has held during these years include: Product Manager, Technical Project Manager, Product Owner, Big Data & Cloud Solutions Architect (AWS, GCP, Azure), Enterprise Data Architect, System Architect, System Analyst and Business Analyst. He is also a founder of a small outsourcing startup in 2014.
Ilyas has a long experience and genuine interest in implementing Design Thinking principles in a Lean-Agile environment to elicit business requirements and then to turn them into Features, Stories and other technical design schemes. Besides that, he also enjoys conducting workshops, demos, face-to-face meetings with customers, team management and taking lead to accomplish a goal together as a team. He incorporates, mentor and coach his team, when this involves designing the architecture of Big Data platforms on Cloud, establishing and executing Data Strategy, running a pilot and Proof-of-Concept (PoC), proposing & building scalable cloud solutions and designing data warehouses.
Ilyas Iqbal believes life is one of the most simple yet complicated subject to read. To build a better understanding and demystify this enigma, he likes to read books on life, psychology, self-help, decision making, entrepreneurship, leadership and from various other disciplines.
Apart from that, he loves working out in the gym, get to know about history, attend social events as well as get inspired from nature. Ilyas also acquires a strong desire to understand and participate in the evolution of Artificial Intelligence for humanity!