About
Akber Choudhry is an elite enterprise cloud strategist, multi-cloud platforms architect, and DevSecOps executive with over 29 years of international mastery leading massive-scale infrastructure modernization, legacy migrations, and artificial intelligence implementations. Based in Waterloo, Canada, he serves as Principal Technology Architect at Dyanet, alongside high-impact tenures as Cloud Engineering Lead for Tactical Edge AI and Prospectory in the United States. Akber holds professional/expert certifications across AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure, specializing in the migration of high-volume financial and public sector monoliths into cloud-native microservices. His formidable historical footprint includes defining enterprise API and security standards for BMO Bank of Montreal, engineering hybrid transit network blueprints for Metrolinx, and executing multi-tier migrations for Toronto Hydro and IBM. A true hands-on technical leader, his core competencies bridge advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC via Terraform and AWS CDK), secure distributed identity management (OAuth2/OIDC/Cognito), real-time streaming topologies (Kafka), and automated MLOps/Generative AI guardrails.
Principal Technology Architecture • Multi-Cloud Fluent Engineering (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Legacy & Monolith Modernization (Mainframe, WebSphere to Cloud-Native) • DevSecOps & SecDevOps Pipeline Engineering • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform, AWS CDK) • FinTech High-Volume Payment & Event-Driven Architecture • Distributed Identity & Security Architecture (OAuth2, OIDC, Kerberos, LDAPS) • MLOps & Applied Generative AI Pipelines • Enterprise API Standards & Governance Blueprinting • High-Capacity Cloud Migrations (Data Center to Cloud, SQL to Aurora) • Real-Time Transaction Streaming (Apache Kafka) • Serverless & Container Orchestration (AWS ECS Fargate, Kubernetes) • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & CloudWatch Observability • Agile CI/CD Lifecycle Automation • Open-Source & Enterprise Software Stack (Java JEE, Spring Batch, .NET) • Multi-Channel E-Commerce Architecture (Dynamics 365, WebSphere Commerce) • Regulatory & International Trade Compliance (CETA Frameworks) • Global Technical Project Management & Vendor Governance • Cross-Border Hybrid Team Mentorship • Executive-Level Stakeholder Briefings