Babar Zahoor

Chief Technology Officer | TechTrack/FusionAI | CloudDev Technologies

Open Source Expert |AI Cloud Architect|Kubernetes|CloudNative Architect|MicroService and DevOPS Expert|Public
Speaker|Trainer | Tech Blogger | Tech YouTuber

Professional Summary:

 With 25+ years of experience in the IT sector, I specialise in enterprise IT infrastructure planning, design,
implementation, IT services, support team management, and software product development. I have 15+ years
of experience in software development, including 7 years as a technology lead. Additionally, I bring 9+ years of
experience in the humanitarian, nonprofit, and development sectors, serving as an ICT lead with a strong
understanding of ICT needs in development, including ICT4 Disaster Information Management Systems and IT
project management.
 My extensive experience includes IT infrastructure development, data center environments, and private cloud
deployment using OpenStack, RedHat OpenShift Container Platform, RedHat Virtualization, and Kubernetes,
VMware and many more. I have strong hands-on experience with cloud environments such as Google Cloud
Platform, AWS, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode, OpenStack private cloud, and Kubernetes AKS, GKE, K8S,
and RedHat OpenShift, Charmed Kubernetes on bare metal and virtualised infrastructure.
 I serve as a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhaw Information Technology Board, Board Member OpenRiyadh,
Corporate Advisory Council at Bahria University Islamabad, University of Engineering and Technology Taxila
Pakistan, Riphah International University Islamabad, Hamdard University Karachi, MCS NUST.
 I also have extensive experience managing IT projects and support & services teams across Asia and Africa
remotely.
 I lead open source communities in Pakistan and founded the Open Source Foundation Pakistan in 2008 as a
nonprofit organization.
 As the founder of the nonprofit technological foundation "Open Source Foundation of Pakistan," I advocate for
"Technology Freedom for All" (https://OSFP.org.pk). I share open source technologies knowledge via my blog
https://OpenSourceEducation.net and YouTube channel https://youtube.com/babarzahoor, where I have
trained thousands of IT professionals in the world. I am also experienced in information security standards and
IS compliance.

Category Name Skills

Team Management Globally Distributed IT support & services team management. Hiring, career planning,
guidance, motivation, mentoring etc.
Project Management Timelines, Budgeting, Project Life Cycle, deliverables, task assignment and project
reporting. Agile Scrum

Used tools i.e. Odoo, Jira Cloud, Confluence

Operating Systems Linux: Ubuntu (12.04 - 24.04), Redhat (RHEL4/5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x/9.x, CentOS

4/5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x & Fedora 10-36), RedHat CoreOS, Cloud Linux, Open SuSE, Debian,
Backbox Linux, macOS, Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows 2012R2, Solaris (9,10)

Humanitarian & Sahana Eden Disaster Information Management System, OpenDataKit, Red Rose CPS
development sector
tools

DevOPS Tools JUJU, MAAS, conjure-up, Ansible, Git, Gitlab, Github, Terraform

Communications Slack, Microsoft Teams, discord

Cloud Computing Open Stack Private Cloud using MAAS, JUJU, conjure-up, Ubuntu, Landscape

Openstack Instances, Volumes, Backups, Network, Floating IPs, DNSaaS, LBaaS,

Firewall, Security Groups, Snapshots, Ceph Storage, Octavia, Nova, Neutron, Heat,
Designate, Barbican, OVS

Amazon AWS - Elastic Compute, RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL) S3, EKS, Managed Airflow,
Fargate, Amazon CloudFront

GCP- Compute Engine, GKE, Container Registry, Artifact Registry, Cloud Console, Cloud
Storage, Cloud CDN, Cloud LB, VPC

DigitalOcean- Droplets, Spaces, Networking, Monitoring, DO Kubernetes as a Service

Microsoft Azure Cloud- AIP, ATP, Sentinel, Azure Blob Storage, AKS, Azure CDN, MS
Azure Key Vault, AAD, Azure DevOps, Azure Managed Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

AI, AI Infrastructure, AI GenAI, LLMs, AI Infrastructure, Large GPU Clusters, OpenWeb-UI, Ollama:mixtral8x7b,
Cloud, AI Models deepseekR1-Zero, Llama3.3:70B

Email Administration Gmail Suite, Zoho Email, Office 365, iRedMail Server

Containerization RedHat OpenShift Container Platform 3.x,4.5,4.6,4.7,4.8,4.9

Platforms &
Mircroservices Charmed Kubernetes, Docker Containers, Containerd, LXC/LXD Containers, Microk8s,
Azure Kubernetes Services, Google Kubernetes Engine, ISTIO, Linkerd, Jaeger, Knative,
EKS, Serverless

Virtualization XEN Virtualization, KVM/QEMU, VMware vSphere, oVirt Virtulization Engine, RedHat
Virtulization Engine

SDN, NFV OpenVSwitch (OVS), OpenContrail, CiscoACI

RPA AI HIRO - Arago AI, Robotic Process Automation Engine

Big Data tools Hadoop, Spark Administration (Intermediate level)

ERP Odoo, Iqracity School System, Iqracity Virtual Class System, Iqracity LMS

BI & Visualization Apache SuperSet, ELK stack (Intermediate level)Grafana

Time Series DB Prometheus, InfluxDB, Gnocchi

Scripting Tools BASH, Sed, Awk

CMS Word Press, Odoo CMS, Ghost CMS

Security tools Various Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) like Snort, Firewalls like ( IPTables, Barracuda
NG series, Juniper SSG series) Secure networks/VPNs, SELinux, TCP wrappers, SSH key
generation, AlienVault, Lynis Audit tool, rkhunter, OWASP ZAP, OWASP Amass, Kali
Linux, Prisma Cloud Container Security platform etc

Servers Open LDAP, Samba LDAP PDC, iRedMail, Bind/DNS, DHCP, Squid, Samba, Apache/
LAMP, NGINX web server (LEMP), VSFTPD, TFTP, PXE with DHCP, NFS, Gluster FS,
ISCSI, Zimbra mail & Collaboration suite, MAAS (Metal As a Service), Apache2 etc.

Network and Servers Cisco, 3Com, D-Link. Juniper, Huawei, HP, Cisco Meraki,
Equipment
Huawei Blade chassis 9000

Huawei Blade server CH121v3,

HP DL 360, HP DL 380, HP 7000 Blade Chassis etc,

DELL R710, R720, R730, R740, R910, R920, R930 etc

Intel Blade Chassis,

Office tools Open Office, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Office 365

Linux Cluster (High HA (High Availability Cluster) using DRBD, Heart Beat
Availability & Load
Balancer) High Availability Cluster (Load Balancer) using Piranha, Pulse, LVS Routers

Storage Systems, SDS, OpenFiler, HP P2000i SAN, QNAP, FreeNAS, Ceph Storage Cluster, SWIFT, S3, Azure
IP SAN/NAS Blob Storage, GlusterFS,

Huawei Oceanstor 6800v3

Huawei Oceanstor 5500v3

SAN Switches Huawei Oceanstor SNS2248

Trilio, Comvault
Backup and Restore
 Monitoring Systems MRTG with SNMP, SARG, NagiosXI,, Ground Works Open Source, NTop, Ubuntu
Landscape, CheckMK, Prometheus, Kibana, Grafana, ELK, LOKI

VOIP/Video
Conferencing Elastix, OpenMeetings Web Conferencing solution (mid level),

Big Blue Button Web Conferencing

Misc

RAID Level 0, 1, 5, 6,10 on servers / Linux OS, LVM (Logical Volume Management) on
Linux OS

Documentation IT Policy drafting, IT User Manual, BCP, DR Planning

IS & IT Audit and IT IT Infrastructure Audit, Information Security Audit, IT Assessment

Assessment

Professional Experience

TechTrack/FusionAI

Chief Technology Officer

Head Office: AlTakhassousi Street, Ar Rahmaniyyah, Riyadh 12341, Saudi Arabia

FusionAI is a leading provider of AI, Generative AI (GenAI), and cloud-native solutions, delivering tailored innovations
for complex business challenges. Specializing in Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT and DeepSeek, we enable
automation, NLP, and content generation, alongside scalable, compliant AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia (KSA) using
Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack and hybrid-cloud strategies. Our flagship "AI in a Box" product offers a pre-
configured, plug-and-play solution for the KSA market, integrating state-of-the-art AI models, cloud-native tools, and
GenAI capabilities for rapid deployment in sectors like healthcare, retail, and smart cities. This turnkey solution
simplifies AI adoption with pre-trained models, Arabic-language support, and compliance with local regulations,
empowering businesses to drive innovation and growth. FusionAI combines cutting-edge technology, end-to-end
services, and deep regional expertise to transform challenges into opportunities across the Kingdom.

https://fusionai.sa

Duties:

 Working as a CTO
 Develop company's technology vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals.
 Oversee recruitment, training, and performance management of technical staff.
 Direct the design, development, and deployment of AI, GenAI, AI Infrastructure solutions, ensuring high
performance, scalability, and security of our clients.
 Leading the engagement with customers to understand their needs and challenges, and provide tailored cloud,
cloud native solutions for general purpose and AI needs.
 Establish and enforce technology policies, standards, and best practices.
 Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards.
 Manage technology budgets, resources, and vendor relationships to optimise costs and achieve project success.
 Encourage and support professional development and knowledge sharing among team members.
 Address and resolve any technical issues or crises that may arise, ensuring minimal impact on customers and
operations.
 Leading the Technical delivery, Governance and pre-sales teams.

CloudDev Technologies (June 2024 to Date)

Chief Technology Officer

Head Office:16185 Los Gatos Blvd, STE 205, Unit 47, Los Gatos, CA 95032 USA

Pakistan Office: DBA OpenWare Business Pvt Ltd. A CloudDev Technologies Company

Regional Office: Riyadh- KSA (Opening soon)

CloudDev Technologies is a premier technology solution provider specializing in innovative cloud and cloud-native
technologies. We deliver comprehensive solutions to complex business challenges by leveraging state-of-the-art
cloud infrastructure, advanced containerization, and micro-services architecture. Our expertise encompasses a wide
range of cloud platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and private cloud environments
like OpenStack and OpenShift. By focusing on scalability, security, and efficiency, we help businesses transform their
IT operations, optimize performance, and achieve their strategic goals through tailored, cutting-edge technology
solutions.

https://clouddev.tech

https://owb.com.pk

Duties:

 Working as a CTO
 Develop company's technology vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals.
 Oversee recruitment, training, and performance management of technical staff.
 Direct the design, development, and deployment of cloud-native solutions, ensuring high performance,
scalability, and security of our clients.
 Leading the engagement with customers to understand their needs and challenges, and provide tailored cloud,
cloud native solutions for general purpose and AI needs.
 Establish and enforce technology policies, standards, and best practices.
 Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards.
 Manage technology budgets, resources, and vendor relationships to optimise costs and achieve project success.
 Encourage and support professional development and knowledge sharing among team members.
 Address and resolve any technical issues or crises that may arise, ensuring minimal impact on customers and
operations.
 Leading the Technical delivery, Governance and pre-sales teams.

Systems Limited. (April 2022 to May 2024)

AVP- DC Integration Services

Fazelat Arcade, G-11 Markaz Islamabad.

Systems Ltd Pakistan’s premier technology organisation with a four-decade track record of successful solutions to
complex business problems, the Systems group of companies is a global force for digitally driven change.

https://www.systemsltd.com/

Duties:

 Working as Infra Delivery lead for RedHat OpenStack Platform, RedHat OpenShift Container Platform and
Kubernetes Private Cloud Projects in leading Telecom and Financial institutions of Pakistan, Gulf and MENA
regions.
 Working as Lead Architect on RedHat OpenStack, RedHat OpenShift Container Platform, Charmed Kubernetes,
Charmed OpenStack solutions, Cisco ACI Integration with RHOSP, Huawei Storage Integration with OpenStack
Cinder
 Design, deploy and manage Cloud Computing Infrastructure, Integration of Software defined networks,
Software defined storage
 Lead Trainer of CloudNative, Cloud Computing (Kubernetes, OpenStack, OpenShift) platforms
 Virtualization (VMWare ESX, Ovirt Virtualization Engine, RedHat Virtualization Engine, KVM)
 DevOps Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD) Pipeline using GitLab CI, GitOps
 Load Balancers -- Octavia, HA Proxy, NGINX, Traefik LB
 Docker Container, Podman, Kubernetes Platform, Azure Kubernetes Service, MicroK8s, Knative, Istio, Linkerd,
KubeApps, Rancher, Helm/Helm3, Canonical Charmed Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift Container Platform
 Storage appliances, RedHat Ceph storage, Cinder Block Storage, Huawei Storage, IBM Storage
 Trilio Vault Backup Solution for Openstack, Kubernetes and RedHat OpenShift Platform
 ServiceMesh and Observability ISTIO, Linkerd
 Lead corporate Trainer Docker, Kubernetes, CICD Pipelines using Gitlab, Azure Cloud, Azure Kubernetes Service
 Lead corporate Trainer RedHat OpenShift Container platform

Projects:

 Leading Infrastructure Delivery team and Lead Architect for RedHat OpenStack, RedHat OpenShift, RedHat
Virtualisation Private Cloud for Asia Billing Swap Project in Telenor Pakistan.
 Lead Architect RedHat OpenShift Private Cloud at UBL Bank
 Lead Architect RedHat OpenShift Private Cloud at Leading MicroFinance bank.
 Lead trainer Linux, Docker, Kubernetes at STZA, SIFC Pakistan, trainer IT team.
 Lead trainer Linux, Docker, Kubernetes for SITA (South Africa) trained more 350 professionals

Systems Limited. (March 2021 to March 2022)

Senior Managing Consultant - DC Integration Services

Fazelat Arcade, G-11 Markaz Islamabad.

Systems Ltd Pakistan’s premier technology organization with a four-decade track record of successful solutions to
complex business problems, the Systems group of companies is a global force for digitally driven change.

https://www.systemsltd.com/

Duties:

Working as a Infra Delivery lead for RedHat OpenStack Platform and RedHat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x
Projects in leading Telecom and Financial institutions.

 Working as Lead Architect on RedHat OpenStack, RedHat OpenShift Container Platform, Charmed Kubernetes,
Charmed OpenStack solutions, Cisco ACI Integration with RHOSP, Huawei Storage Integration with OpenStack
Cinder
 Design, deploy and manage Cloud Computing Infrastructure, Integration of Software defined networks,
Software defined storage
 Virtualization (VMWare ESX, O-virt Virtualization Engine, RedHat Virtualization Engine, KVM)
 DevOps Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD) Pipeline using GitLab CI, GitOps
 Load Balancers -- Octavia, HA Proxy, NGINX, Traefik LB
 Docker Container, Podman, Kubernetes Platform, Azure Kubernetes Service, MicroK8s, Knative, Istio, Linkerd,
KubeApps, Rancher, Helm/Helm3, Canonical Charmed Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift Container Platform
 Storage appliances, RedHat Ceph storage, Cinder Block Storage, Huawei Storage, IBM Storage
 Trilio Vault Backup Solution for Openstack, Kubernetes and RedHat OpenShift Platform
 ServiceMesh and Observability ISTIO, Linkerd

Biome Analytics Inc. (November 2019 to Feb 2021)

Consultant DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure

3rd Floor, Software Technology Park STP-3, KSL Complex I-9/3 Islamabad, Pakistan.

Biome Analytics Inc is Silicon Valley (SAN Francisco) based Technology company providing Analytics solutions to all
major hospitals providing services in Cardiovascular in California.

https://Biome.io
Duties:

 Design, deploy and manage DevOps Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD) Pipeline using
GitLab CI
 Manage Azure cloud Infrastructure services, AIP, ATP, Sentinel, Blob Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS),
Azure Container Registry, Azure Key vault, Azure managed databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), Azure CDN, Backup
/ restore etc
 Load Balancers -- Octavia, HA Proxy, NGINX, Traefik
 Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, MicroK8s, Knative, Istio, Linkerd, KubeApps, Rancher, Helm, MicroK8s
 Ubuntu, JuJu, MaaS
 Airflow -- Workflows and ETL Data Pipeline (Deploy/Manager on K8S)
 Pypi --Python package manager (Deploy/Manage)
 Monitor Infrastructure On-Prem and Cloud Infra with Check_MK, Ubuntu Landscape, Grafana, Azure Alerting
and Monitoring
 Flask application builder, Flake 8, waitress
 Tableau Servers Cluster Infrastructure (Deploy/Manager)
 Provide reliability in Service delivery platform operations on cloud infrastructure.
 Evaluate technology for best price performance
 Advise recommendations to choose best technology solutions in product development and services platform.

OpenWare Business Pvt. Ltd (MAY 2016 to Feb 2021)

Chief Technology Officer

Plaza 88, Commercial Hub, Bahria Town Phase 8, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.

OpenWare Business Pvt. Ltd. (OWB) is an enterprise IT, software development and consultancy services provider
company. OWB team expertise in Infrastructure management, Managed Cloud Services based on Openstack and
Kubernetes. OWB brings diverse and global experience applicable for nonprofit, corporate and government
organisations. OWB team is a determined group of internationally recognised process & technology experts working
diligently to transform technological innovations into social advantage. OWB response to global challenges is to
apply technology for innovative, effective & scalable Open Source solutions

https://www.OWB.com.pk

Duties:

Ensure all operational elements of the technology teams are closely and properly managed, such as staffing,
hiring, business development and career management

 Provide IT Infrastructure solution based on OpenStack Cloud engine, Kubernetes Container orchestration
engine, Google cloud Platform, AWS and Microsoft Azure for customers in retail, banking, telecom, NGOs and
Government organizations.
 Provide DevOps support services to clients, managed cloud operations and services, Perform Cloud
administration tasks on DigitalOcean.com, OpenStack, Hetzner cloud.
 Solution Designing and Leading Dlivery on Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift Platform, Azure Kubernetes Services
 Lead the development of OWB/Khastech Solutions product i.e. Iqracity Academic ERP (SaaS Product) “A 4th
Generation Education Management System, Campus Management System, ERP, HRM” and other upcoming
products.
 Manage CI/CD environment for product development teams
 Provide services to national & international clients on technology, IT strategy solutions & advisory services,
ERP/CRM development, implementation and training services.
 Represent OpenWare Business Pvt. Ltd in different forums, Universities, seminars and conferences, Social
Media Live Sessions.

Provide Managed Cloud Services:

(Public Cloud AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean and OpenStack)

 Brien Holden Vision Institute

 LRBT
 Utility Store Corporations of Pakistan
 ChoiceWorx USA
 National Disaster Management Authority Pakistan
 Directorate of Labour department, Chief Commissioner Office Islamabad, Pakistan

ERP Software Development and Deployment Services:

 Brien Holden Vision Institute Country Office Pakistan — BHVI
Services: Odoo ERP, PoS, HRM, CRM and Holistic Eye Care Management System
 Layton Rahmatullah Benevolent Trust or LRBT
Services: Odoo POS, Sales, HRM, Procurement, Inventory etc
 Voluntary Services Organisation (VSO) Country Office Pakistan
 Labour Department Islamabad, Chief Commissioner Office Islamabad, Pakistan
Services: Odoo ERP System and digitisation of Registration of NGO’s, NPO’s Trusts, Madrassa’s, Shops,
Restaurants
 NDMA, National Disaster Management Authority Pakistan “Disaster Decision Information Management
System”
 Indus Consortium
Services: ClipBucket Video Hosting Platform development services
 University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Punjab
Services: Edoo Academic ERP and Campus Management System

OpenStack Private Cloud Deployment and Management Services:

 Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan, Biggest chain of Retail Stores in Pakistan
Services: Openstack Private Cloud Deployment Services and Data Center Design/implementation Services
 Tune.pk
 Services: Openstack Private Cloud Deployment Services
 Consultancy Services
 WaterAid Country office Pakistan
Services: Office 365, Azure AD, OneDrive migration services
 International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Country office Pakistan
 Pakistan Red Crescent societies
 University of Engineering and Technology Taxila

Artificial Intelligence Robotic Process Automation:

 Chiceworx USA
Services: Provided outsourcing services in development of RPA AI Engine to monitor and fix issues in Linux,
Windows, MacOSx, Android, Cisco devices
 Nayatel Pvt.Ltd.
Services: Provided PoC for RPA AI based engine to fix issues in ONT+Wifi Devices installed at Customer’s
premisses

Oxfam Novib (MAY 2011 to April 2016)

International Technical Support Officer ICT Asia

Oxfam Novib

Mauritskade 9 2514 HD the Hague, The Netherlands

Oxfam Novib is the Dutch affiliate of the International Oxfam organization. It is an association dedicated to
establishing a fair world with no poverty in it. The organization is based in The Hague. Oxfam Novib was founded
under the name Novib in 1956 and become Oxfam Novib in 2006, having more than 73 Country Offices in The World.

http://www.oxfamnovib.nl

Duties:

 Management of IT Support and Services team broaden in Asian countries

 Travel to conduct IT assessments, to provide IT support and to implement of ICT projects in Asian region
 Close coordination with Oxfam Affiliates for ongoing, future joint IT projects in Asia
 Deployment of Country Offices IT Infrastructure, Small data centres as per Oxfam Novib MoPaaS (Model Office
Platform as a Service) IT Infrastructure design standard by Oxfam Novib IT department
 Project management for Oxfam Novib Country offices IT Projects in Asia
 IT Infrastructure implementation (decentralization, SMS IT Model Office Implementation) in Oxfam Novib
country offices in Asia
 Layout high level project implementation plan for higher management and country leadership in Asian region
(SMS IT Model Office Implementation)
 Conduct weekly coordination meetings with all IT officers in the world which includes Asian & African and HQ
team in Netherlands.
 Compile monthly IT support and IT Infrastructure system performance reports from Asian & African Country
offices for Head of ICT based in The Hague, The Netherlands.
 Provided technical guidelines as dotted line management to IT Officers or IT responsible personals in the
Country Offices (Asian Region)
 Travel frequently to country offices for onsite support, training and implementation of IT Systems.
 Provided onsite support to IT officer in country offices of Oxfam Novib during IT assessments phase, ICT project
implementation phase (decentralization and SMS Model Office implementation)
 Trained technical staff on advanced IT systems and new technologies.
 Trained country offices staff on humanitarian IT systems
 Evaluated country offices IT Infrastructure and plan for future expansions or up-gradations for both hardware
& software in Asian country offices
 Designed and recommended network extensions/up-gradation plan and other IT department relevant
strategies
 Ensure safe & secure backup/ restore of organizational data and all the servers with IT Officers at country offices
 Made a coordination with (Associate) Country Directors for future ICT integration with Humanitarian Projects,
disaster situations
 Provided advisory on ICT integration during humanitarian aid situations and upcoming development projects
i.e. ICT4D, ICT4Disaster Management system.
 Liaison with vendors & service provider in Asian country offices along with IT officers for purchasing of
hardware, software and other IT related services i.e. Internet
 Provided feedback on SLA’s from IT & Internet service providers
 Produced user manuals for users & provided input in Policy documents for country offices in the world
 Monitoring of IT Systems & Infrastructure using Alerting & alarming tool (Nagios XI)
 Provided System administrator support to manage IT systems based in country offices.
 Provided onsite support on ICT systems deployment, IT Infrastructure upgrade, transition, IT system takeover
projects
 Provided support to IT team of affiliate to dismantle Oxfam Affiliate IT systems

PROJECTS (Latest to oldest)

Managed Windows 7 Migration Project in Oxfam Novib country offices in Asia and Africa as Project Manager

 Managed pilot deployment of Windows 7 migration project (Afghanistan & Mozambique country offices
(August 2015- December 2015)
 Project Lead, SMS IT Model Office Project (single management structure within Oxfam International
confederation) define standards for ICT based services & structure for country offices of Oxfam Affiliates in the
world (Dec 2011 to June 2013)
 Project Stake holder, Office relocation and SMS Model Office IT Implementation at Pakistan country office,
Islamabad, Pakistan between Oxfam GB and Oxfam Novib
 Project Manager, SMS IT Model Office IT Implementation at Country Office Afghanistan country office, Kabul,
Afghanistan
 Managed Project as Lead, SMS Model Office IT Infrastructure implementation at Office Project of LAO Country
Office Vientiane, LAO PDR (March - APRIL 2014)
 Project Team Member, IT Infrastructure implementation and Office relocation Project of LAO Country Office
Vientiane, LAO PDR (November – December 2013)
 Project Lead, IT Infrastructure Implementation country office Kabul, Afghanistan (Decentralization project) (Feb
29th – March 19th 2013)
 Worked as Project Lead IT, Infrastructure Implementation Country office Hanoi, Vietnam (SMS Model Office
project) (March 2014)
 Project Lead, IT Infrastructure Implementation Country office Hanoi, Vietnam (Decentralization project) (March
3rd–23th 2012)
 Project Lead, ICT Assessment country office Hanoi, Vietnam (July 17-23, 2011)
 Project Lead, ICT Assessment at Oxfam Country Office Phnom Penh, Cambodia (August 22 nd -31st 2012)
 · Project Lead, IT Assessment at Oxfam Country Office Bangladesh, Dhaka/Bangladesh (September 10 th -17th
2012)
 · Project Lead, IT Assessment at Oxfam Novib Country Office Pakistan (September 18 th – 1st October)
 Project Lead, Infrastructure Implementation country office Pakistan (decentralization project) (October –
November 2009)
 Installed & configured Highly available squid proxy cluster using DRBD & Heartbeat at Oxfam Novib
 IT Infrastructure assessment & redesigning recommendation to Oxfam Novib Pakistan’s country office partner
organization SPO (National level large Oxfam Partner NGO) in Pakistan
 Managed online web servers for organizational usage, monitor their security & performance
 Provided guidelines / recommendations for implementation of Open Source Software at government level
organizations, universities, colleges, NGO/development sector in Pakistan to save organizational resources &
money in Pakistan under the flag of Open Source Foundation of Pakistan.
 Deployed test multi node Open Stack Private Cloud using MAAS, JUJU, Landscape

Oxfam Novib (Aug 17th 2009 to April 30th 2011)

IT Officer

Oxfam Novib Country Office Pakistan

Environment: Red Hat Linux 5, CentOS 5/5.x, Windows XP, Windows 7

Oxfam Novib is the Dutch affiliate of the International Oxfam organization. It is an association dedicated to
establishing a fair world with no poverty in it. The organization is based in The Hague. Oxfam Novib was founded
under the name Novib in 1956 and become Oxfam Novib in 2006, having more than 73 Country Offices in The World.

http://www.oxfamnovib.nl
Duties:

 System & Network administration of country office IT Infrastructure i.e. DNS, DHCP, SQUID, APACHE, SAMBA
LDAP PDC
 IT support & services to country office staff
 Purchase of IT equipment
 Administer G-Mail Apps e-mail Management & training of all staff for managing G-Mail Apps i.e. (Chat, Offline
e-mail, Calendar management, Documents sharing, Sites and many other features)
 Over all IT systems management in Oxfam Novib Country Office Pakistan
 Evaluate IT equipment and plan for future hardware & Software needs
 Design and recommend network extensions/up-gradation plans and other IT department relevant strategies.
 Ensure safe and secure backup & restore storage of organizational data
 Close coordination with Logistics department for hardware procurement & other IT related queries & manages
the purchasing of all software, hardware and other IT supplies
 Liaison with vendors for purchasing of hardware, software and other IT Equipments
 IT trainings of country office staff
 IT Assets record keeping of Oxfam Novib Pakistan Country Office

Projects:

Designed & implemented Pakistan Country office IT Infrastructure based on Open Source Technology solution and
saved 22,000 Euro for Organization

 LAN / WLAN Network designed planned, deployed, Datacenter network

 Procurement of Datacenter hardware i.e. Intel Blade Server, Juniper Firewall, CISCO switches, HP LTO 920 SAS
External
 based on Open Source Technologies i.e. Linux, Squid, Bind, DHCP, NAGIOS, SAMBA LDAP PDC, Heartbeat &
DRBD
 Installation, Configuration of secure DNS, Squid web cache with Video Cache engine and SARG (Squid Analysis
Report Generator)
 Installed & configured Open Source HRM Solution (Orange HRM) for country office HR management system
 Designed & deployed LAN / WLAN Network of Pakistan country office
 Deployed Virtualization setup using XEN Virtualization on Linux
 Highly available Cluster squid cache with DRBD and Heartbeat
 Highly available DHCP cluster using CentOS Linux, DRBD & Heartbeat
 Installation and Configuration of Juniper SSG20 Firewall.
 Installation and Configuration of HP LTO 920 SAS External Backup Storage Drive

Globalink Smart Logistics (Pvt.) Ltd (Feb 2009 to Aug 15 2009)

Asst. Manager IT

Environment: Red Hat Linux 4/5, CentOS 5/5.x, Windows Vista

The Globalink Smart Logistics (Pvt) Ltd. is Freight forwarding multinational company Headquartered in Almaty
Kazakhstan.

Having 40+ offices in 17 countries of the world with 750+ staff.

http://www.globalinkllc.com

http://www.globalink-logistics.com

Duties:

 Multiple Linux based servers System administration and general network administration.
 Corporate mail server’s administration.
 High Availability Cluster management.
 System Performance and monitoring using NMS i.e. Nagios.
 Management of Kerio based mail server.
 Configuration and administration of RAID on HP ML series server.
 Spam controlling with Spam Assassin in Kerio mail server.
 IT Team management in Islamabad office.
 Evaluate IT equipment and plan for future hardware needs & Software needs.
 Design and recommend network extensions/up-gradation plans and other IT department relevant strategies.
 Ensure safe and secure backup and storage of organizational data and all the servers.
 Ensure smooth working of organizational e-mail system online.
 IT Assets record keeping of Corporate

Projects: Re-configuration of Datacenter Setup including Mail servers, Squid Proxy servers, Routers, Firewall,
various servers

 Configuration of Globalink Mail servers, Proxy servers, Corporate custom Software servers
 Mail servers configuration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 using Kerio Mail server and Kerio administration
console.
 Configuration of Job Completion Report server using Windows Vista and custom based Software.
 Configuration of Financial Report server using windows 2003 server and custom based Software.
 Configuration of routers Zyxell P 320 with live IP Pools.
 Configuration of Squid based proxy using squid and IPtables.
 Configuration of OpenNMS for Network & System Performance and monitoring.

Hardware: HP ProLiant ML 370 G5, HP ProLiant ML 350, HP ProLiant ML 150, Zyxell Router P 320, P 4 machines

Software: Linux, Windows, Squid, DHCPD, IPTables, LAMP, Kerio Mail server, Heartbeat, SAMBA
Center for Research Communication & Dialogue (CRCD) (Nov 2007 to Jan 2009)

IT Coordinator

Environment: Red Hat Linux/CentOS, Windows 2003

CRCD is dedicated to improving the Journalism of FATA in the Pakistan was headquartered in Islamabad Pakistan,
working with affiliate organizations for Peace, Heath and Vocational trainings.

Duties:

 IT resource planning & Management for projects and affiliated organizations.

 System Administration, Network administration.
 Build IT infrastructure of CRCD office.
 Ensure smooth LAN and WAN administration while maintaining certain CRCD office standards
 Evaluate IT equipment and plan for future hardware needs.
 UK based Online Server management.
 Design and recommend network extensions/up-gradation plans and other IT department relevant strategies.
 Recommend appropriate hardware and Software for purchase.
 Ensure safe and secure working of office networks and adopt necessary measure to keep the
networks/workstations free from viruses.
 Ensure safe and secure backup and storage of organizational data.
 Provide training and support to staff members on the use of hardware/Software.
 Ensure smooth working of organizational e-mail system
 IT Assets record keeping.

INFOMATS Inc. (Jan 2003 to Sep 2007)

Network Engineer

Environment: Red Hat Linux, Windows 2000/2003/XP

The INFOMATS Inc. was IT services Provider Company (Software Development and IT infrastructure development).
INFOMATS Inc. developed products for the Education & Health sector and also delivers official Database of NGOs to
the Ministry of Social Welfare and Training for the staff of Social welfare in all over Pakistan District wise.

Distinguished Work:

Successfully planned, Designed, Implemented IT Infrastructure of Lawrence College GHORA GALI MUREE, Punjab,
Pakistan, which includes campus network of Science College, Senior and junior schools 15 main buildings of campus
spread 2.5 KM area

Duties:

 Designing and implementation of Network and Systems Deployments.

 Installation and Configuration of Network and Systems Deployments.
 Team leading for the Projects.
 Liaison with vendors and other relevant organizations to keep management up-to-date with latest process and
hardware development.
 Leading the Network & system deployment projects different organizations.
 Submit evaluation reports, purchasing plans or any recommendations to the management.
 System and Network administration, User administration on Windows 2000 and Linux.
 Troubleshooting network problems such as routing, repairing systems in case of crash.

Project: Campus Network of Lawrence College of Ghora Gali Murree

Project Manager:

Designed, and deployed Campus network of Lawrence College, Ghora Gali Murree in June 2003, having 300+ nodes
in 15 main buildings blocks of the college spreading over an area of about 2.5 KM. Lead the team Engineers,
Technicians and deployed campus LAN network and configured PCs labs, deployed EMIS system on Windows 2003
IIS server.

Hardware: COMPAQ Dual Processor Machine, D-Link Network Equipment etc.

Software: Windows Server 2003/ Red Hat Linux 9.0 , Active Directory IIS, MS SQL server, MS VISIO, Apache Samba,
IPtables.

SYSTEMS RESEARCH (Pvt.) Ltd. (March 2002 to Dec 2002)

Network Administrator

Environment: Red Hat Linux, Windows 2000/2003/XP

The System Research Pvt. Ltd is IT Services Provider Company (Software Development Medical transcription &
Institute). System Research Pvt. Ltd was first in Medical Transcription & Legal Transcription and SAP training in
Pakistan.

Duties:

 Installation and Configuration of Network and Systems Configurations using windows 2000 server Red Hat Linux
& windows 2000 Professional.
 Systems and Network administration, User administration on Windows 2000 and Linux.
 Troubleshooting network problems &repairing systems in case of crash.
 IT support to the Software’s Development department, Medical Transcription and Institute.
UNIQUE INSTITUTE OF COMPUTERS (Oct 2000 to Dec 2001) [Part time]

Hardware & Network Engineer

Environment: Windows 98/Me/NT 4.0/2000 Pro

Unique Institute Of Computers was college of short term courses of IT & Hardware and Applications.

Duties:

 Administration of Network and Systems.

 Installation and Configuration of Network and Systems.
 Systems and Network administration, User administration on Windows 98/Me/NT 4.0/2000 Pro
 Troubleshooting network problems such as repairing systems in case of crash.

BABBAGE COLLEGE OF COMPUTERS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES (July 1999 to Sep 2000) [Part Time]

Hardware & Network Administrator

Environment: Windows 98/Me/NT 4.0/2000 Pro

Babbage College of Computers & Management Sciences was college of short term courses of IT & Hardware and
Applications.

Duties:

 Administration of Network and Systems.

 Installation and Configuration of Network and Systems.
 Systems and Network administration, User administration on Windows 98/Me/NT 4.0/2000 Pro
 Troubleshooting network problems such as repairing systems in case of crash.

Publications, Computer Based Trainings (CBTs), Technology Blogs & Technical Discussion Groups

Publications:

Book chapter “Central management of Data Centers” in Handbook of Data Centers published by Springer links

Authors: Babar Zahoor, Bibrak Qamar, Dr. Raihan Ul Rasool PhD

Computer based trainings: Urdu CBTs of Linux Operating System and Open Source Technologies

DevOps Bootcamp:

 Linux Docker Kubernetes Bootcamp

 Kubernetes Bootcamp 2023
 RedHat OpenShift Bootcamp 2024
 OpenStack Training Videos
 MicroK8s Training Videos
 Kubeflow, MLFlow AI Development platform training videos
 Multipass Virtualization platform
 DevOPs basics with GITLAB
 Linux High Availability Cluster Urdu CBT’s (Heartbeat and DRBD on CENTOS 5.4)
 Linux High Availability Load Balancer Urdu CBT’s (IPVSADM, NANY etc on CENTOS 5.4)
 XEN Virtualization on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora Urdu CBT’s (XEN Virtualization Engine)
 iRedMail Mail Server Urdu CBT’s (POSTFIX based mail server on CENTOS 5.5)
 Samba LDAP Primary Domain Controller on RHEL/CentOS Urdu CBT’s (SMB LDAP on CENTOS 5.4)
 Open Filer IP SAN/NAS Urdu CBT’s (SAN / NAS Open Source Engine based on REDHAT 4.x)
 Open Meetings Open Source Web Conferencing Urdu CBT’s (Open Meeting Software on Ubuntu 10.04)
 Various CentOS/Fedora & Ubuntu Urdu CBT’s (Performance tuning, maintenance, server management)

Founder:

Open Source Foundation of Pakistan with the Aim of “Technology Freedom for All”

https://OSFP.org.pk

Open Source Educational Network Portal

https://www.OpenSourceEducation.net

Blogs and groups

http://baberzahoor.blogspot.com

http://youtube.com/user/babarzahoor

Http://www.LinuxUrduCBTs.com

https://www.OpenSourceEducation.net

Trainings & Workshop Conducted in Conferences:

Open Source Summit 2016 OSS16 at Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan

22nd December 2016 at Bahria University Islamabad Campus

Odoo ERP System Workshop on OSS16 at Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan

22nd December 2016 at Bahria University Islamabad Campus

5 Days Linux hand-on System Admin Workshop at University of Engineering Technology Taxila Wah, Punjab,
Pakistan

5th September 9th September 2016 UET Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan

Open Source Summit 2015 OSS15 at Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan

18th December 2015 at Bahria University Islamabad Campus

Open Stack Cloud Computing workshop

18th December 2015 at Bahria University Islamabad Campus

Open Source Summit 2015 OSS15 in Islamabad, Pakistan

20th September 2015 at Higher Education Commission of Pakistan

TECH TALKs at IEEE PSCSC 15 (Computing for Pakistan) Congress at GCU Faisal Abad Pakistan 2015

Importance of Open Source in Computing of Pakistan

Open Source Technologies in Entrepreneurship

24th -26th April 2015 at Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan

Workshop at CYBER SECURE Pakistan Conference at SEECS NUST 2015

Workshop on Linux based Open Source Security Tools

10th April 2015 at SEECS NUST Islamabad

One week IT Officers Workshop at Oxfam Novib

Moderator of various sessions during workshop

24th to 28th November 2014 at Oxfam Novib Head office in The Hague, the Netherlands

Software Freedom Day 2014 #SFD14

Moderator of Session on One day Conference “Software Freedom Day” event by Open Source Foundation of Pakistan
as International Software Freedom day

20th September 2014 at Higher Education of Pakistan

Workshop at Cyber Secure Pakistan conference 2014

Workshop on Security Management using Open Source Software

9th Jan 2014 at Marriot Hotel Islamabad

Linux In House Training NADRA Provincial HQ

3 Weeks Linux System Administration in House training at PHQ G 10/4 Islamabad

June 2014

Open Source Technologies

FAST-National University Islamabad Campus

16th September 2011

Audience (MS CS & PhD Students)

Virtualization & Cluster Computing Basic Building Blocks for Cloud Computing

National University (NUST SEECS) Islamabad Campus

16th September 2011

Audiences (MS CS & PhD Student)

Trainer, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 System Administration

NICON, Rawalpindi

Trainer, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 System Administration

Pakistan Computer Bureau, Rawalpindi/Islamabad

Trainer, Red Hat Linux 9 System Administration

CIT College, Rawalpindi

Trainer, Hardware & Basic Networking

Babbage College of Computer & Management Sciences

Education:
MS in Computer Sciences (In progress)

IQRA University Islamabad Campus

B.S in Computer Sciences. (Hons)

Al-Khair University, AJK Pakistan.

Diploma of Associate Engineer

Three years diploma in Computer Sciences, from Punjab Board of Technical Education, Lahore, Pakistan

Professional Associations:

a. Founder, Open Source Foundation of Pakistan

b. Member Board of Directors, Internet Society Islamabad Pakistan chapter (Jan 2014-Feb 2017)
c. Member Corporate Advisory Council, Bahria University Islamabad Campus
d. Member Corporate Advisory Council, University of Engineering and Technology Taxila.
e. British Computing Society, UK (Dec 2014 - Dec 2016)
f. Kuberetes Global Forum
g. Fedora Pakistan
h. Computer Society of Pakistan
i. HR Forum Pakistan

Professional Certifications:

PRINCE2® Foundation in project management (December 2014)

Registration number RM31865279

Certificate number 00109039 effective from 3rd December 2014

http://www.BCS.org U.K

Red Hat Certified Engineer [RHEL 5] (November 2008)

ID # 805008760435569 (110-167-962)

Red hat Inc. USA

CISM (Certified Information Systems Manager) Course work

By ISACA Chapter Islamabad

CIT Plaza F-10, Islamabad

CISSP (Certified Information System Security Professional) Course work

Attended 5 days Trainings Workshop of CISSP

Certified Information System Security Professional by ISC2

National Institute of Management & Information Security

CIT Plaza F-10, Islamabad

Trainings Attended

5 Days Prince2 Foundation and Practitioner Training

1st December 2014 to 5th December 2014 (9-5)

IRE Institute at AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands in collaboration with The Knowledge Academy institute U.K.

CISM Training

Two days training session at CIT F10 Markaz, Islamabad

Data Center Designing & deployment

2 Weeks Training session At Oxfam Novib Head office, The Hague, The Netherlands

 Barracuda Firewalls High Availability Installations & configurations

 HP SAN Installation & Configurations
 HP ML 370 G6 Servers
 Barracuda Storage Cloud Backup appliance
 VMware ESXi 4.1 Hypervisor vSphere 4.1 with vMotion Installation & configurations
 HP (H3C) 10GIG switches Installation & configurations

Self Development Workshop

Systems Research Pvt. Ltd

F 10 Markaz, Islamabad

Basic Safety and Security Course

3 Days Training Work Shop

Center for Safety and Development, (International Security Trainings Providers)

Training held in Islamabad.