# about
About
I'm Imran Ramzan, a cloud infrastructure and delivery leader based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, with 22 years of experience building the resilient, highly secure infrastructure that modern enterprise workloads demand. My expertise spans multi-cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure) and the rigorous FinOps disciplines required to keep cloud costs optimized as platforms scale.
Most recently, I served as Head of DevOps at Callsign (2022–2026), a London-headquartered identity and authentication platform using behavioural biometrics and deep learning to verify users in real time for tier-one banks. I'm now open to my next leadership role.
Scale & Performance: Owned 21 live environments across AWS and Google Cloud in five regions, carrying a 99.99% availability and 200ms response commitment to tier-one banks, and directed the programme that scaled throughput from 50 to 2,000+ TPS.
Financial Efficiency: Cut monthly cloud spend from $900K to $500K in eighteen months — USD 4.8M a year — and held the position as a standing member of the cloud governance board alongside the CFO and CISO. Grew the team from 6 to 14 engineers across four portfolios, with five promoted and no regretted attrition.
Compliance & Migration: Took Google Cloud in Saudi Arabia from inception to production on a GBP 400,000 build, owned the delivery plan for First Abu Dhabi Bank's migration to single-tenant SaaS, and fronted ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II and client-run security audits with no infrastructure findings raised.
Prior to Callsign, I spent three years as a Lead Consultant with AWS Premier Consulting Partners in Sydney. There, I directed large-scale enterprise cloud migrations, TCO analyses, and data center exits for Tier 1 banks—contributing to CMD Solutions being named AWS Migration Partner of the Year 2022.
With twelve years in the UAE across Etisalat, Emirates NBD and Callsign, I bring deep GCC market experience to help organizations scale safely. I am open to senior leadership opportunities across the UAE and wider GCC in Infrastructure Delivery, Cloud Governance, and DevOps Leadership.
Credentials
- —BSc Computer Science (Gold Medallist)
- —Certified Scrum Master
- —Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), 2026
- —Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) — in preparation
- —Project Management Professional (PMP) — in preparation
- —AWS Migration Ambassador Foundations
The best way to see how I work is via the contact page.