Yawer Hussain
Hameedi
IT Infrastructure & Operations Leader
Turning infrastructure into competitive advantage — 22+ years leading cloud, datacenter, and digital transformation programs across fintech, banking, and telecom.
Yawer Hussain Hameedi
IT Infrastructure & Operations Leader
The Numbers
Measurable business impact
Beyond titles and years — what infrastructure leaders actually move: uptime, budget, vendors, and compliance posture.
Sustained across banking core, payment gateways, and VDI platforms under SAMA-regulated SLAs.
How this was achieved
Achieved through active-active datacenter topology with automated failover orchestration, quarterly DR drills with simulated regional outages, and a runbook-automation pipeline that reduced manual recovery steps from 47 to 3. Every critical service had a documented RTO under 30 minutes and RPO under 5 minutes, validated by SAMA audit across 4 consecutive cycles.
Full CAPEX/OPEX ownership for infrastructure, licensing, connectivity, and managed services.
How this was achieved
Managed through zero-based budgeting each fiscal cycle, with quarterly variance reviews presented to the executive committee. Renegotiated master agreements with HPE, Google Cloud, and Microsoft using committed-use discounts and right-sizing analyses, consistently delivering 15–22% below the original vendor quotes while expanding service coverage.
Negotiated master agreements with HPE, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Etisalat, STC, and more.
How this was achieved
Built a vendor governance framework with scorecards tracking SLA adherence, incident response times, and innovation contributions. Conducted quarterly business reviews with each strategic vendor, with exit clauses and benchmarking clauses built into every master agreement — ensuring leverage at renewal time and no single-vendor lock-in on critical services.
Led CRFR alignment, DR drills, and audit-ready evidence for banking regulators.
How this was achieved
Implemented a continuous-compliance pipeline that auto-collected evidence from SIEM, change-management, and access-review systems into a single audit-ready repository. This reduced audit preparation time from 6 weeks to 4 days and eliminated the 'evidence scramble' that plagues most banks during SAMA inspection cycles.