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Upwork Expert Vetted (top 1%) | Senior AI/ML Architect with Google funded AI projects.| Fractional CTO/Director | High Volume Engineer | ex IBM, CDW, JP Morgan | 7+ years of hands-on AI/ML | 16+ years in Cloud and Software Architectures | Best Practice and Regulated Environments | Certified Multi Cloud Architect | Cybersecurity Incident Responder Hi, I'm Don, a senior level AI/ML Architect and Fractional CTO. Since 2011, I have been driving transformations for successful startups, scale-ups, SMEs, and enterprises like TELUS, Google, IBM, JP Morgan, CDW, and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. If you need expedited high quality work or an individual who an solve the unsolvable, I'm one of those people who will preserver and succeed I have hands-on technology daily, and continue to work as a lead AI/ML engineer/architect, expert web and software designer/developer, security specialist, consultant, and director who can effectively design, build, plan, and lead using methods that bring true value. Several smaller orgs have depended on me to launch their business, or prevent the collapse of an existing one, and I've delivered every time. I've been leading full-projects across industry and government regulated environments, cloud, AI/ML, data, web, SaaS, InfoSec, networking, and systems since 2011. I've also worked with orgs specializing in industry firsts in AI, government, finance, energy, eCommerce, CRM/ERP, blockchain and crypto, environmental, construction, facilities management, education, data processing, GPU data centers, enterprise SaaS, cyber security,--and a variety of Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS Partners. Come and find out why so many clients trust me.. Your project done right --it matters to me too. 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 ‧ Mini-MBA in AI from Rutgers University (2025) ‧ Deans Honor List grad from ITAS at VIU (2012) ‧ IEEE Member & TrueNorthCTO contributor ‧ Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect ‧ Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert ‧ Original founder of Cloud Pathfinder Services Inc. ‧ Awarded with the Upwork Expert Vetted label (Top 1%) in 2020 ‧ Offered a co-founder role during existing employment on two separate occasions ‧ I have more written work recommendations then you'll have time to read 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 & 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 I give back to our local community through volunteering to feed the homeless, was formally recognized by the Salvation Army for volunteer work supporting marginalized communities. My aim is to be supportive and create an environment where people can feel they are truly cared about. After being hand selected by my professors to be a board member for a nationally recognized First Nations conference at Vancouver Island University in 2011, I was also given the opportunity to assist the Governor General of Canada during the conference. I'll bring this same drive for excellence to your organization or project, should you want it. . ******* Key terms: 14 programming languages, Google Workspace, Office 365, Anthos, Lovable.dev, CFO, CIO, Incubator, Pytorch, Pinokio, LM Studio, Orpheus TTS, voice agents, PBX, Vertex AI, AIOps, MCP, RCA, xAI, ITSM, ITIL, SRE, DevSecOps, LLMOps, LLM, Vector, federated learning, neo4j, CNN, DNN, RNN, Jupyter, NLP, OCR, Textract, Pyspark, Yuma consensus, Apache Spark, Hadoop, TensorFlow, LangGraph, MLOps, Claude Code, Clawdbot, Moltbot, Anthropic, mask2former, transformer models, graph neural network GNN, CAD recognition, roboflow, huggingface, Graph DB. base44, CVat, spec driven development, foundation models, Bittensor, validator, Windows, Linux, Apache Nutch, API, AWS, Active Directory, App Service, Cosmos DB, Azure DevOps, Asynchronous, Firewall, Functions, IAM, Key Vault, Azure Kubernetes, AKS, Logic Apps, Azure Policy, PostgreSQL, Site Recovery, Azure SQL & SQL MI, Synapse Analytics, Full-stack, senior architect, principal senior engineer, CentOS, ChatGPT, Cloud Armor, TCP/IP, Cloud Vision, Cloudflare, CIS, COPA, CRM/ERP, Cursor, Data Warehousing, database architect, Dataprep, Dataproc, Dataflow, Datastore, Debian, DNS, Document AI, Elastic, ETL Pipelines, ELT, EventArc, Exchange, F5, Firebase, Financial strategy, Funding, Data Room, Gantt, Cloud API integrations, Landing zone, GCP, Google CLI, IAM & Identity, Instance Groups, ISO 27001, IIS, Kubernetes Engine, DevOps, Jira, clickup, LangChain, LAMP, low code, Lucid, Marketing, MLOps, Mobile, Monday, no code, Nginx, Compliance, GDPR, HIPPA, EU AI Act, Pub/Sub, RAG Model, Rafay, Red Hat, Security audits, VC funding, SharePoint, SOC 2, SOP, SoW, Spanner, Stackdriver, Streamlit, Terragrunt, Terratest, Ubuntu, vNet, Vibe Coding, Visio, VMware, VPN, VPC, Web development, Wireshark, Windows, DCs, Zabbix, Obsidian, Perplexity, Jeeva, Google Labs, Gumloop, Gamma , loop prompting, loop based development,

𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 🖥️, 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁 🌱, 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 🛠️, 𝗔𝗪𝗦 ☁️, 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗣𝗜𝘀 🔗 I help businesses build scalable, secure, and high performance backend systems that handle growth without slowing down. Most applications work well in the beginning. The problems start when traffic increases. APIs become slow, deployments become risky, and maintaining the code becomes expensive. That's where I come in. 𝗔𝘀 𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝟭𝟯+ 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, I've helped startups and enterprise companies design, build, and optimize backend systems that scale reliably in production. I am not just a Java Developer who writes code. I help businesses create backend architectures that support growth, improve performance, and reduce technical debt. 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 • Built scalable Java Developer solutions serving thousands of daily users with high availability. • Designed Microservices architectures that reduced deployment risks and improved system reliability. • Developed Spring Boot applications that improved API response times and backend performance. • Helped businesses migrate legacy systems into modern Java Developer architectures. • Delivered production ready backend platforms for startups and enterprise organizations. Every project starts with a business goal and ends with measurable results. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗗𝗼 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 • Custom backend application development • Enterprise Java solutions • Legacy application modernization • Backend performance optimization • Secure and maintainable architecture 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 • REST API development • Spring Security • Spring Data JPA • Authentication and authorization • Scalable backend services 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 • Distributed systems design • Service decomposition • API Gateway implementation • Event driven architecture • System scalability and resilience 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 • AWS deployment and infrastructure • EC2, ECS, Lambda • Cloud architecture design • Monitoring and optimization • Cost effective cloud operations 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗣𝗜 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 • API design and implementation • Third party integrations • Payment gateway integration • Documentation and testing • Secure API architecture 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 Most Java Developers focus only on writing code. I focus on the business impact of the software. 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗜 𝗮𝘀𝗸: • Will this architecture still work when traffic grows? • Can future developers maintain it easily? • Is it secure? • Is it optimized for performance? • Can it scale without major rewrites? This approach helps clients avoid costly problems later. 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗜 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 • Startups building new SaaS products • Businesses scaling existing applications • Companies modernizing legacy Java systems • Teams adopting Microservices architecture • Organizations migrating workloads to AWS • Businesses needing secure and scalable REST APIs 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate, JPA, Microservices, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs, Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Maven, Gradle, Git, CI/CD, Jenkins 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗲 • 13+ years of Java Developer experience • Clean, maintainable code • Scalable backend architecture • Strong communication • Reliable delivery • Long term technical thinking If you're looking for a Java Developer who understands both software engineering and business objectives, let's discuss your project. Send an invitation and I'll respond within a few hours. Keywords: Java Developer, Senior Java Developer, Java Backend Developer, Java Software Engineer, Spring Boot Developer, Spring Boot Expert, Java Application Development, Enterprise Java Developer, Java Web Services, REST API Developer, RESTful API Development, Backend Developer, Backend Engineer, Microservices Developer, Microservices Architecture, Distributed Systems, AWS Developer, AWS Cloud Engineer, Java AWS Developer, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Hibernate, JPA, Spring Security, API Integration, Database Design, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, SaaS Backend Development, Scalable Application Development, Cloud Native Applications, Java Consultant, Software Architecture, System Design, Enterprise Application Development, Performance Optimization, CI/CD, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Full Stack Java Developer.

Senior Systems Architect specializing in ERP, CI/CD, and AI-ready data platforms. I modernize legacy infrastructure, own full-stack releases, and integrate generative AI safely. 10+ years experience, MBA-backed, and certified in RAG/Agentic AI. I bridge the gap between complex enterprise workflows and modern, high-performance architecture. With a proven history of managing platforms for 2,500+ users and 80+ business processes, I do not just write code - I own the operational lifecycle. Whether you are looking to refactor legacy systems, implement secure CI/CD pipelines, or deploy production-grade RAG and Agentic AI interfaces, I provide the technical leadership to ensure your project scales without repeated re-architecture. Core Competencies: - ERP & Enterprise Systems: Deep expertise in systems architecture, data integrity, and integrating ERP/CRM/Financial platforms (SQL/Data Warehousing). - Modern AI Integration: Recently certified in RAG, Agentic AI, and Multimodal LLM implementation. I focus on safe, effective, and production-ready AI deployments. - DevOps & CI/CD: Expert in Jenkins, Ansible, and release governance. I enforce validation and code-freeze gates to ensure rock-solid production environments. - Leadership & Methodology: Combining an MBA with hands-on technical management, I offer a blend of strategic oversight and daily backlog grooming, mentoring, and incident resolution. I approach every contract as a long-term partner, focusing on observability, query tuning, and performance to reduce MTTR and technical debt. If you need an architect who understands both the bottom line and the codebase, let us discuss your upcoming project requirements.

Elevate your digital infrastructure with my expertise as a Certified Cloud Solutions Architect and seasoned backend engineer. With a decade of experience, I excel in delivering scalable, secure, and robust backend systems, API management, and comprehensive cloud solutions tailored to AWS and Azure platforms. My services encompass expert consultation, meticulous software solution execution, seamless implementation, and proficient DevOps strategies. I’m also equipped to mentor empowering your team. Partner with me to transform your vision into reality and propel your business forward. Checkout my website for more details if interested: shalphaco.com/ ★★ TECHNOLOGY, FRAMEWORKS & TOOLS I USE ★★ ✅ Programming Languages: Java8+, Python, TypeScript ✅ Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP ✅ Frameworks: Spring Boot, Flask, Jhipster, Serverless Framework, Django ✅ DevOps Tools: Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub, Docker, CruiseControl, K8S, AWS SAM, CDK, IaC ✅ Database and Analytics Tools: Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Spark, Jupyter ✅ Other Tools & Frameworks: Keycloak, Auth0, Okta, Splunk, Eclipse, Vscode, Pycharm, Graylog, Consul, nomad, Jmeter, Sonarqube, Kafka, Pytest, PlantUML, Swagger, Postman, curl ✅ Operational system: Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) ✅ Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, Agile, ZDD (zero defect delivery), TDD (test-driven development), CICD ★★ BUSINESS & DATA ANALYTICS TOOLS I USE ★★ ✅ Data Visualization: PowerBI ✅ Data Modeling & Architecture Designs: PlantUML, SchemaSpy, Draw.io ✅ Requirements Elicitation: Jira, Confluence, Trello ✅ Stakeholder Management: Communication, Negotiation, and Collaboration ★★ APPROACHES ★★ ✅ Communication: Fluent in English, Hindi and Tamil, able to communicate effectively with clients and team members, both verbally and in writing. ✅ Collaboration: Experienced in working with cross-functional and distributed teams, using agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban. ✅ Leadership: Able to lead and mentor junior developers, provide feedback and guidance, and delegate tasks. ✅ Time Management: Able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks, meet deadlines, and deliver quality results. ✅ Problem Solving: Able to analyze and solve complex and new business problems, using logical and creative thinking. ★★ HOW I WORK ★★ Collaborating with me is not only efficient but also enjoyable. Let’s break it down into three straightforward steps, ensuring your projects are delivered seamlessly and headache-free: ✅ Step ①: Understanding Your Goals We kick off with a conversation or a personalized 1-1 call. This allows me to dive deep into your project’s objectives and gather all the essential data needed for success. ✅ Step ②: Solution Alignment and Execution Once we’re on the same page, I provide you with my approach and tailored recommendations. We kickstart the implementation, ensuring alignment with your vision. Your feedback is invaluable! We iterate and fine-tune the solutions until you’re not just satisfied but thrilled. ✅ Step ③: Delivering Excellence The final step involves deliverables along with every asset used in the project. Your convenience matters, and I ensure a smooth handover. My Bold Promises to You🌟 ✔ Satisfaction Guarantee: If you’re not happy, I’m not satisfied. You’ll receive a full refund. ⏰ On-Time Delivery: Punctuality is my commitment. Your deadlines are my deadlines. 📞 Same-Day Support: Need assistance during the project? Count on me to be there promptly. As a freelancer, my reputation and client relationships are paramount. I approach each project with dedication, aiming to craft solutions that align perfectly with your needs. I’m selective with projects, ensuring dedicated attention and exceptional results for a few clients. 🌟 Don't just take my word for it – hear the rave reviews from those who've teamed up with me! Dive into the testimonials and see the stellar experiences shared by my awesome collaborators. 🚀 - Check out my project portfolio section! Let’s create excellence together. Send me an invitation, and let’s schedule a call to discuss your exciting project!

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ITIL v4 Foundation | Azure Architect | Azure Administrator | Azure Security Specialist Houcem is a multi-faceted enterprise solution architect and administrator, with extensive expertise leading project teams in developing and implementing compatible solutions that leverage the latest technologies and apply modern architecture principles and patterns to address immediate requirements and proactively prepare for future requirements. I’ve been passionate about technology since I was 7 years old and have been fortunate enough to make a career out of my hobby! Simply put: The best man for your Job !!!