Ovais Rasheed

Generative AI Engineer building Innovative Solutions

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2022 – Present 

Google

Senior Solutions Engineer

Generative AI Engineer building innovative solutions.

• Lead and develop proof-of-concepts purpose built for industry use cases.
• Assess work flows, generate architectural roadmaps and build solutions.
• Analyze profit + cost analysis of implementing GenAI solutions.
• Execute FinOps strategies to optimize cloud spend.

2018 – 2021 

Bridgewater Associates

Senior Operations Engineer

Platform Engineer of Server and EndPoint environments. Ensuring tight security and operations of our platforms.

• Manage the security, performance, and optimization of workloads on my platforms.
• Platform operator of the Amazon WorkSpaces environment. Ensured platform health, tight service operations, and optimal performance of our platform.
• Subject matter expert on security controls for team; Advise when controls are culprit of the problem and act as an escalation for these cases.
• Inducted into ‘Gate A’ – A selective group of engineers entrusted to secure Bridgewater’s most critical systems.
• Zero day problem orchestration for all endpoint operations.

2016 – 2018

Pomona Capital

Systems Engineer

Lead Systems Engineer responsible for secured and reliable infrastructure.

• Lead systems engineer for Pomona’s three international offices; ensuring compliance, health, performance of internal infrastructure.
• Spearheaded cyber security initiative, implemented two factor authentication on vulnerable external systems, perform external penetration scans, fix vulnerabilities.
• Assess client security needs; identify gaps and provide solutions to lower risk and tighten security posture.
• Performed forensics of compromised systems; implement post-mortem security improvements, and implement root cause fixes.
• Provide white-glove support to key stakeholders and C-level executives.
• Implemented encryption standard for mobile devices.