Farqad Cloud

Expertise

A Constellation of Expertise

Led by experienced specialists. Supported by a global engineering network.

Farqad Cloud brings together a distributed team of cloud, cybersecurity, DevOps, platform, and software engineering specialists working across multiple countries.

Our technical practices are led by experienced engineers who remain directly involved throughout delivery, supported by a broader network of specialists selected according to each project's requirements.

Large points are leadership practices. Small points are capabilities across the broader team. Choose a practice to see what it brings.

How to read the map

Many specialists. Several leadership practices. One engineering organization.

  • Large stars are the five technical leadership practices. Each is led by senior engineers who stay involved in delivery and who customers can engage directly.
  • Small nodes are capabilities held across the broader distributed engineering team working in multiple countries. They are disciplines and technologies, not individual people.
  • Connections show where practices work together inside a single engagement, so infrastructure, software, security, and operations are never designed in isolation.

Choose a practice above to see the capabilities it draws on.

The extended team

Core Leadership. Extended Expertise.

Our technical leaders are supported by a broader distributed engineering team with specialized capabilities across cloud, cybersecurity, DevOps, software engineering, platform engineering, and managed operations.

This allows Farqad Cloud to assemble the right combination of expertise for each engagement while maintaining direct access to senior technical leadership.

The five practices on this page are leadership functions, not the whole team. Behind each one are engineers, consultants, and security specialists working across multiple countries as one delivery organization.

How engagements are staffed

  • A practice leader owns the technical outcome and stays involved from architecture through delivery.
  • Specialists join according to the scope: a migration brings cloud and DevOps engineers, a hardening engagement brings security and DevSecOps engineers, a platform build brings all of them.
  • The combination changes as requirements evolve, without the customer losing the senior person who understands the whole solution.

Technical leadership

Five practices, each led by senior engineers

Each practice is a leadership function with an accountable senior engineer, supported by the specialists of the wider team. Together they cover the lifecycle from architecture through engineering, security, automation, operations, and continuous improvement.

Cloud Practice Leadership

Cloud Engineering & Managed Services

Designs, migrates, automates, and operates scalable cloud environments with expertise across architecture, modernization, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, reliability, and managed operations.

Key expertise(15 areas)
  • AWS Architecture
  • Cloud Adoption
  • Cloud Migration
  • Cloud Modernization
  • Landing Zones
  • Kubernetes (EKS, ECS)
  • Container Platforms
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • CI/CD
  • Serverless
  • Observability
  • Cost Optimization
  • Availability and Scalability
  • Managed Cloud Operations
  • Backup and Disaster Recovery

Technologies

  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • ECS
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • Serverless
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Ansible
  • CloudWatch

Technical Leadership

Cybersecurity & Cloud Security

Provides leadership across cybersecurity strategy, cloud security, threat management, incident readiness, security operations, and risk reduction.

Key expertise(15 areas)
  • Cybersecurity Strategy
  • Cloud Security Architecture
  • AWS and Azure Security
  • Security Architecture
  • Security Operations (SOC)
  • Detection Engineering
  • Threat Management
  • Incident Response and DFIR
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Penetration Testing
  • Security Assessments
  • Application Security
  • Security Governance
  • Risk Management

Technologies

  • AWS Security
  • Azure Security
  • SIEM
  • SOC
  • DFIR
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Incident Response
  • DevSecOps
  • Cloud Security
  • AppSec
  • Vulnerability Management

Technology Leadership

Technology & Software Architecture

Guides technology strategy, application architecture, engineering standards, modernization, integration, and software delivery across complex digital platforms.

Key expertise(15 areas)
  • Technology Strategy
  • Solution Architecture
  • Software Architecture
  • Application Modernization
  • Backend Engineering
  • Microservices
  • Distributed Systems
  • REST APIs
  • Enterprise Integration
  • Event-Driven Architecture
  • Engineering Standards
  • Code Quality
  • Technical Governance
  • Software Delivery Leadership
  • Data Integration

Technologies

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Microservices
  • REST APIs
  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • PostgreSQL
  • Software Architecture

Engineering Leadership

DevOps & Platform Engineering

Builds reliable delivery platforms through automation, CI/CD, infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, release engineering, and production-ready DevOps practices.

Key expertise(15 areas)
  • DevOps
  • Platform Engineering
  • CI/CD Architecture
  • Release Automation
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Linux
  • AWS Platform Engineering
  • Production Engineering
  • Cloud Operations
  • Platform Reliability
  • Operational Automation
  • Infrastructure Engineering
  • Deployment Automation
  • Engineering Enablement
  • Cloud Security

Technologies

  • AWS
  • Linux
  • CI/CD
  • DevOps
  • Automation
  • Platform Engineering
  • Cloud Operations
  • Infrastructure
  • Release Engineering

Security Engineering

DevSecOps & Cloud-Native Security

Integrates security into cloud-native platforms and software delivery pipelines, with expertise across Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, security automation, policy enforcement, and observability.

Key expertise(13 areas)
  • DevSecOps
  • Kubernetes and EKS Security
  • Container Security
  • CI/CD Security
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Security Automation
  • Policy as Code
  • Runtime Security
  • Software Supply Chain Security
  • Cloud-Native Engineering
  • Observability
  • Infrastructure Security
  • Application Security Integration

Technologies

  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub
  • OPA
  • Falco
  • Trivy
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Cloud Security

Why it works

Stronger Together

Our advantage comes from combining deep specialization across technology disciplines rather than treating cloud, software, operations, and security as separate functions.

01

Multidisciplinary by Design

Our delivery model brings cloud architects, cybersecurity specialists, software engineers, DevOps practitioners, platform engineers, and security engineers together.

02

Full Lifecycle Capability

We support engagements from strategy and architecture through implementation, automation, security, observability, operations, and continuous improvement.

03

Security Integrated from the Start

Security is integrated into architecture, infrastructure, applications, delivery pipelines, and operations instead of being added at the end.

04

Architecture Meets Execution

Our technical leadership remains close to implementation so that architecture decisions remain practical, scalable, secure, and operationally realistic.

05

Flexible Engineering Capacity

Our broader distributed engineering team allows us to bring the appropriate combination of specialists into each engagement as requirements evolve.

Across the team

Our Combined Capabilities

Our strength comes not only from individual specialization, but from how these disciplines work together. The matrix below is the shared toolset of the whole engineering organization, grouped by discipline.

Every capability below is held within the broader Farqad Cloud engineering team. Choose a practice to see which ones it draws on.

Cloud9 of 9
  • Cloud Architecture
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Cloud Migration
  • Cloud Modernization
  • Landing Zones
  • High Availability
  • Cost Optimization (FinOps)
  • Backup & Disaster Recovery
Platform Engineering7 of 7
  • Kubernetes
  • Amazon EKS
  • Amazon ECS
  • Docker & Containers
  • Linux
  • Platform Engineering
  • Infrastructure Automation
DevOps7 of 7
  • CI/CD
  • GitOps
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Release Engineering
  • Automation
Software Engineering9 of 9
  • Software Architecture
  • Backend Engineering
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Microservices
  • REST APIs
  • Distributed Systems
  • Enterprise Integration
  • Application Modernization
Cybersecurity10 of 10
  • Cloud Security
  • Security Architecture
  • Security Operations (SOC)
  • SIEM
  • Incident Response
  • DFIR
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Penetration Testing
  • Application Security
DevSecOps8 of 8
  • Pipeline Security
  • Container Security
  • Kubernetes Security
  • Infrastructure Security
  • Policy as Code (OPA)
  • Runtime Security (Falco)
  • Security Automation
  • Supply Chain Security (Trivy)
Observability & Operations9 of 9
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • CloudWatch
  • Observability
  • Logging & Tracing
  • Incident Management
  • Managed Operations
  • Cloud Operations
  • Reliability Engineering
Data & Messaging6 of 6
  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ
  • Redis
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Elasticsearch

Full lifecycle

From Strategy to Operations

Farqad Cloud can remain involved through the complete technical lifecycle. Each stage is staffed by the practices it needs, so architecture, engineering, security, automation, and operations hand off to each other inside one team.

All five practices contribute across the lifecycle. Choose one to trace its path.

  1. Discover

    Understand the systems, constraints, risks, and goals before anything is designed.

    • Software Architecture
    • Cloud Engineering
    • Cybersecurity

  2. Architect

    Target architecture, security design, and delivery plan agreed before implementation.

    • Software Architecture
    • Cloud Engineering
    • Cybersecurity
    • DevSecOps

  3. Build

    Applications, integrations, and cloud environments engineered against the agreed design.

    • Software Architecture
    • Cloud Engineering
    • DevOps & Platform

  4. Secure

    Controls, hardening, and evidence built into infrastructure, code, and pipelines.

    • Cybersecurity
    • DevSecOps
    • Cloud Engineering

  5. Automate

    Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and policy enforcement that make delivery repeatable.

    • DevOps & Platform
    • Cloud Engineering
    • DevSecOps

  6. Observe

    Monitoring, logging, tracing, and detection so teams see what production is doing.

    • Cloud Engineering
    • DevOps & Platform
    • Cybersecurity

  7. Operate

    Managed operations, incident handling, and reliability for systems in production.

    • Cloud Engineering
    • DevOps & Platform
    • Cybersecurity

  8. Improve

    Cost, performance, security posture, and architecture revisited as requirements evolve.

    • All practices

International delivery

Distributed Expertise. One Engineering Team.

Our engineers and specialists work across multiple countries while operating as one integrated delivery organization.

This distributed model gives Farqad Cloud access to a broader range of experience while maintaining common architecture, engineering, security, and delivery standards.

Support hours and timezone coverage for each engagement are agreed in the statement of work. See plans and pricing.

Working with us

Direct Access to Technical Leadership

We believe senior technical leadership should remain close to delivery.

Our practice leaders stay involved in architecture, technical decisions, security, implementation oversight, and service quality.

Customers can engage directly with the leaders responsible for their engagement while the broader engineering team provides the specialist capacity required for delivery. No account-management layer sits between you and the people who understand the solution.

Professional depth

Certified Expertise

Our team's professional backgrounds include certifications and advanced training across cloud architecture, DevOps, cloud security, cybersecurity, incident handling, offensive security, software engineering, and modern cloud platforms.

These are areas in which individual team members hold credentials. They are not company certifications or vendor partnerships, and no single engineer is implied to hold all of them. Evidence is available to procurement teams on request.

Experience Across the Technology Stack

  • Senior technology leadership
  • Deep cloud engineering experience
  • Enterprise software engineering experience
  • Advanced cybersecurity experience
  • International engineering experience
  • Cloud-native platform expertise
  • Experience supporting enterprise and production environments
  • Experience across architecture, delivery, security, and operations
  • AWS Solutions ArchitectureCloud architecture
  • AWS DevOps EngineeringDelivery automation
  • AWS SecurityCloud security
  • Google CloudCloud engineering
  • Offensive SecurityPenetration testing
  • GIAC / Advanced CybersecurityDefensive security
  • Incident HandlingResponse and forensics
  • Java / Software EngineeringSoftware delivery
  • Cloud EngineeringPlatforms and operations
  • DevSecOpsPipeline and platform security

Individually specialized. Collectively powerful.

One integrated engineering team

Farqad Cloud combines the expertise required to design, build, secure, modernize, and operate critical digital platforms as one integrated engineering team.

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