Meet Our Coaches

A remarkable team of dedicated professionals ready to guide you toward achieving your goals and unlocking your full potential. Meet some of our featured coaches below.

Khalil Demeri
Cloud Solutions Architect
Marc Balcer
Agile Dev Principles & Practices
Zaki Medina
CTO in Healthcare
Franklin Okedo
Cloud Solutions Architect
Bekim Dauti
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Sudhanshu Pandey
Software Engineer
William A. Clark
Cybersecurity Coach
Shashike J.
Principal Software Engineer
Aman Ullah
Machine Learning Engineer
Richard Kang
Head of Engineering, Healthcare
Aneesh Kumar
Google Cloud Architect Trainer
Khaled El Hourani
Azure Administrator Associate
Abiola Akinbade
Senior Cloud Engineer
Siddhesh Prabhugaonkar
Cloud Solutions Architect
Abhimanyu Singh Panwar
DevOps Engineer
Fady Ibrahim
Google Cloud Authorized Trainer
Gouthami Matavalam
Senior Technical Architect
Mario Palma
Multicloud Professional trainer
Godfrey Chatira
Azure Solutions Architect
Akhil Bangia
Management Consulting
Mahesh kumar
Cloud, AI & Data Analytics
Ahmed Gad
Solutions Arch., Devops & Security
Praveen Tej D
Cloud Architect
Sam Alapati
Cloud and Data Technical Lead

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Fady Ibrahim
Google Cloud Authorized Trainer

Fady Google Cloud Champion Innovator specializing in Modern Architecture. He is also a Google Cloud Insider and Google Cloud Authorized Trainer.

Google Cloud certifies me as a: - Professional Cloud Architect - Professional Cloud Security Engineer - Professional Cloud Network Engineer - Professional Google Workspace Administrator - Associate Cloud Engineer - Cloud Digital Leader Furthermore, he is a speaker and organizer at GDG Cairo (a Google Developer Group). He is also a Learning Community Ambassador at Google Africa Developer Scholarship for Google Cloud Track (for four years), where he monitored 40+ scholars every year to get Google Cloud certifications.

Zaki Medina
CTO in Healthcare

Zaki is a co-founder at a digital self-care wellness platform encompassing a disruptive multi-sided marketplace operating at the intersection of General Health, Nutrition, Mental, Intimate Health & Sexual Wellness.

He has years of experience leading data science, analytics and technical teams with an advanced understanding of data engineering, data science, MLOps and Responsible AI technologies and the appropriate application of these technologies to solve problems at a massive scale within domains such as Retail, E-commerce, Multi-sided Marketplaces, Finance & Banking, Energy, Manufacturing and Healthcare.

Khalil Demeri
Cloud Solutions Architect

Kal is a regional Cloud Solutions Architect working on projects for hundreds of customers across 12 countries, where he leads consulting engagements and solution Tech\Sales discussions.

Kal also enjoys providing Cloud workshops and training and transferring knowledge is his passion. Kal loves enabling and empowering people to achieve what they want.

Kal has Azure, GCP, and AWS Cloud Architect certificates with a main experience focusing on Azure and GCP Clouds.

Franklin Okedo
Cloud Solutions Architect

Franklin Okedo Cloud Solutions Architect/ SharePoint Developer with over 8+ years of successful experience in Cloud Infrastructure Architecting and Security Administration. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success in the IT industry. Strengths in Azure Cloud and Oracle Cloud backed by training and on job experience in Office 365:

SharePoint Online/ On-premise:(Administration, design, configuration, implementations), Power App/Automate

Ahmed Gad
Solutions Architect, DevOps & Security

Ahmed is a multicloud, systems, solutions and enterprise architect. He has built and deployed cloud native applications and infrastructure, re-architected and re-platformed monolithic solutions to microservices, event-driven and distributed data intensive applications and APIs with Agile and Lean approaches.

He is adept at anticipating technical needs, sees opportunities and balances the needs of local and central requirements to deliver desired results.

Khaled El Hourani
Azure Administrator Associate

Khaled is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Azure administrator associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Azure AI certified, Office 365 certified, Dynamics 365 trainer with over 20 Years + of experience

Abhimanyu Singh Panwar
DevOps Engineer

Abhimanyu Singh Panwar is experienced DevOps Engineer in Software development industry with primary focus on Build, Release and software configuration management with a good hands-on knowledge of Source Code.He has a working knowledge of multi cloud service providers, like AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.

Bekim Dauti
Microsoft Certified Trainer

Bekim Dauti works in the administration of servers and computer networks and training in Cisco, CompTIA, and Microsoft. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Tirana and a master's degree from UMGC Europe, both in IT.

Additionally, he has 20 years of experience as a Cisco Certified Academy Instructor (CCAI) and more than 15 years of experience as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Bekim holds several certifications from vendors such as ECDL, Certiport, CompTIA, Cisco, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. Bekim has contributed to nearly 20 books and dozens of articles for PC World Albanian and CIO Albanian.

He founded InfoTech (May 2002) and Dautti (October 2017). These days, he blogs on Bekim Dauti's Blog. In addition, he works as a Microsoft Certified Trainer at Elev8.

Akhil Bangia
Management Consulting

Akhil began his career as a software engineer at Avaya. After a few quick promotions he was recruited to become a consultant. His attention to detail, hands-on experience with cloud applications and always staying at the forefront of innovation helps him deliver big results for his clients.
Akhil dedicates much of his time to helping others advance their skills in cloud computing, including on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. His knowledge of multi-cloud strategies makes his expertise invaluable to clients and their customers.

Ahmed Gad
Solutions Architect, Devops and Security

Ahmed Fawzy Gad is an M.Sc. Egyptian data scientist who is passionate about artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and Python. He works as a teaching assistant and also a book author who published 4 books besides being a technical reviewer. Ahmed is also a technical writer that contributed by more than 35 original articles and tutorials. His current titles include 'TensorFlow: A Guide to Build Artificial Neural Networks using Python (Lambert 2017)', 'Practical Computer Vision Applications Using Deep Learning with CNNs (Apress, 2018)', and 'Building Android Apps in Python Using Kivy with Android Studio (Apress, 2019)'.

Marc Balcer
Agile development principles and practices

Marc Balcer has made a career of building better specifications and turning them into more productive tests. He is the creator of TAME—a model-driven platform for specifying and generating software tests. An early practitioner of agile methods, Marc has designed and led projects in subject matters ranging from Telecom to transportation logistics, financial services and biotech.

Praveen Tej D
Cloud Architect

Praveen has years of Experience in Cloud Architect, Cloud Trainer, Lead Coach ,AWS, Azure, GCP ,Devops , Cloud Engineer, Data Engineer. He believes in continuous learning and creativity, providing exposure to new ideas that stimulates professional and personal growth.

Sam Alapati
Cloud and Data Technical Lead

Sam Alapati is an Oracle Database, Oracle Exadata, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle security, UNIX System Administration, and Hadoop expert with over 20 years of experience managing enterprise systems as a senior Oracle DBA and architect. In 2011, Sam received the prestigious Oracle ACE recognition from Oracle Corporation for significant technological contributions to Oracle database technologies. Sam also holds the following IT certifications and educational degrees: •Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Oracle Database 12c Administrator •Certified UNIX HP-UX System Administrator •Certified Oracle 11i Applications (E-Business Suite) Database Administrator •Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) •Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in Economics Sam has architected, implemented, managed and optimized Oracle high availability and disaster recovery solutions utilizing Oracle RAC, Exadata, Data Guard, and GoldenGate, and has expertise in the administration and tuning of Oracle WebLogic Server 11g and 12c. Before joining Arc DBA Consulting, Sam served as a senior Oracle DBA and team lead for major organizations such as Oracle Corporation, Boy Scouts of America, NBC and AT&T. He has a successful record of accomplishment in solving numerous complex performance issues, has managed large and small DBA teams, and has mentored many DBAs over the years.

Mahesh kumar
Cloud, AI & Data Analytics.

Mahesh Kumar transformed from a Software Developer to Sales Engineer to Solution Architect to Technology Leader to Entrepreneur" Mahesh Kumar is responsible for providing leadership along with other department heads, such as marketing, sales, pre-sales, and delivery in designing GCP based solutions and as an advisory of technologies improving efficiency and effectiveness Mahesh is focused on Cloud, AI & Unstructured Data Analytics. Mahesh has experience in Presales, Professional Services, Presenting in Industry events, Mentoring, Training & Enablement Mahesh has a Google Cloud Platform Evangelist & Enthusiastic YouTuber maintains a YouTube channel named Learn GCP with Mahesh where interesting Google Cloud Platform concepts are shared & the channel is currently subscribed by 19K+ subscribers with 1.2M views & 76K+ watch hours A 17-year IT services professional, Mahesh has a wealth of end-to-end (Presales, Delivery) experience on large complex assignments involving the integration of multiple platform technologies.
Mahesh has worked in a variety of industry verticals, including Government and Finance. Mahesh has a bachelor's degree in electronics & communication from VTU University, India. He also holds industry certifications including Google Professional Cloud Architect, Data Engineer & Network Engineer. Specialties: Cloud, Networking, AI and Deep Learning, Enterprise architecture methodologies and frameworks, Unstructured Analytics & Big Data Software (IDOL), Presentation skills & Training GCP.

Shashike J.
Principal Software Engineer

In his current role, Shashike is an end-to-end software architect with a proven track record for building high achieving MVPs, enterprise applications and unlocking millions of dollars in revenue for startups and founders. He has nearly 10 years of hands-on experience in large companies and pre-revenue startups.

Shashike enjoys writing code that matters and dealing with the roadblocks and chaos that come with building prominent products. He loves to be challenged and has never given up in his work, which is why he's been such a crucial team member for so many companies.

Gouthami Matavalam
Senior Technical Architect

Gouthami Mathavalam A self-motivated, growth-oriented Software Engineer with contagious positive energy who strategically and tactfully resolves and troubleshoots problems. Well organised with a good experience in Java & Java Frameworks with record that demonstrates self-motivation, creativity and initiative to achieve both personal and corporate goals.

Abiola Akinbade
Senior Cloud Engineer

Abiola is a highly experienced Cloud Engineer specializing in architecture and DevOps. He is often sought to provide technology consulting to his clients on their system architecture and infrastructure needs. Abiola's experience and leadership in collaborating with development team members ensures his clients always have scalability, resilience, security, and availability of their software products.

Abiola is a certified Microsoft Azure trainer who has delivered live trainings for enterprises and has produced self-paced courses for those who prefer to learn at their own pace.

Abiola holds over 20 IT certifications across multiple cloud companies and other technologies including: AWS, Azure, Oracle, Kubernetes, Google Cloud and others.

Mario Palma
Multicloud Professional trainer

Mario Palma is international Multicloud Professional trainer, Consultant in AWS/GCP/AZURE and AWS Restart Instructor.

Godfrey Chatira
Azure Solutions Architect

Godfrey Chatira is an experienced Azure Solutions Architect, with a proven track record of designing and implementing complex cloud solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. With expertise in cloud architecture, infrastructure, security, and governance, I help organizations to maximize their investments in cloud by providing tailored solutions that align with business goals and technical requirements. My technical skills include proficiency in Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services. Additionally, I am well-versed in DevOps practices and tools such as Azure DevOps, Git, and Terraform, which enables me to help organizations to automate and streamline their deployment processes. I am also a seasoned business coach & Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT-honored in 2013), on both Cloud & On-Premises technologies. Have conducted global session trainings/webinars to IT-Pros, C-Suite Execs and aspiring individuals.

Sudhanshu Pandey
Software Engineer

Sudhanshu is Redhat Certified and a Computer Science graduate. He has  worked on multiple technologies including Devops, ML, Python, Redhat Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Cloud Computing, web development and mobile app development. He is currently working as an ML engineer for a startup and as a trainer on a content delivery team for Linuxworld.

He loves learning different technologies and their integration. Sudhanshu created an application named "AI Music APP" which can play music according to your facial expression, which he integrated ML with flutter and AWS cloud.

Siddhesh Prabhugaonkar
Cloud Solutions Architect

Siddhesh Prabhugaonkar is a Microsoft Certified Trainer working as a cloud solution architect and corporate trainer. He has 15+ years experience as an IT professional and trainer and focusses on Microsoft Azure, .NET and Microsoft technologies in general.

He currently works as a cloud solution architect with ZasmLabs. Siddhesh has also been recruited to work with global training institutes like O'Reilly Learning, Global Knowledge, Netcom Learning, Opsgility, Simplilearn and others.

Aman Ullah
Machine Learning Engineer

Aman is an expert software developer with extensive experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning software applications. He has earned four Microsoft Azure certifications and a Google Cloud certification. 

Most of Aman's work is for a large technology company where he leads their machine learning strategy. 

Aman is a cloud evangelist who cares deeply about technology and innovation. He enjoys teaching people about cloud technologies and has delivered training classes for over 20 enterprise companies and 10,000 IT professionals. 

Aneesh Kumar
Google Cloud Architect Trainer

Aneesh has 14+ years of experience in a range of IT and cloud technologies. He is a highly skilled trainer having instructed 250+ candidates on Google Cloud Platform. His expertise is in Cloud Platforms (GCP and AWS), DevOps tools, Jenkins, GIT, Terraform, Redhat Linux, Windows, Solaris, Networking, storage and monitoring.

Akhil Bangia
Management Consulting

Akhil began his career as a software engineer at Avaya and after a few quick promotions he was recruited to become a consultant. His attention to detail, hands-on experience with cloud applications and always staying at the forefront of innovation helps him deliver big results for his clients. 

Cloud technologies are of such interest to Akhil that he dedicates much of his time to helping others advance their skills in cloud computing such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Akhil's knowledge of multi-cloud strategies makes his expertise invaluable to clients and their customers.

William A. Clark
Cybersecurity Coach

William Clark is the founder and CEO of Clark Technology Group, Inc. For the past 30 years he has been working with networking and cybersecurity in the retail, health care, government, military and manufacturing sectors. He is an accomplished IT trainer with over 30 years of experience in the classroom delivering hands-on learning experiences to his students. In addition to an active certification training schedule, he currently serves as Lead Coach for an award-winning Cybersecurity Bootcamp program.

Bill is a CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer and holds the following certifications: CompTIA IT Fundamentals, Network+, Security+, Mobility+, Certified Wireless Network Trainer, CWTS, and CWNA. In addition to teaching exam prep courses for those certificates, Bill is also an experienced course developer and is the author of several technical training courses.

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