
Agha Furrukh Zahid
Senior Integration Architect | Azure & BizTalk
Salary / Daily rate
Espoo, Finland
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
About me
Intro
Integration Architect with 17+ years architecting enterprise solutions across BizTalk, Azure, and Power Apps. Led ETL workflows and microservices integrations for major clients, specializing in cloud migration and API management. Triple Azure-certified MIT Fellow delivering scalable integration solutions that streamline complex business processes and reduce deployment time significantly.
Work experience
Communications Specialist
AIESEC
Director | Integration Architect | Azure Consultant
Amafh Freelance
Apr 2018 - Present
8 years 7 months
ETL Workflows: This was an workflow project, implemented to fulfill the need of External Call workflows. It was developed using Power Apps, Azure Logic apps, Functions, Blob Storage, Data factory, Service Bus Queues, Api Management, C#, MySql, Sql Server and Rest Services. Architecture was based on C4 model developed in structurizr. In this project, I worked as a software consultant involved in requirements gathering, integration design and software development phases. I developed the complete project including Data Extraction, Transformation, Business Rules Execution and Data Posting processes. Wessex Water Incident Integration: This was a BizTalk middleware project that involves the integration of various applications related to jobs / incident management at Wessex Water. It was developed using Biztalk, BTDF, BAM, ESB, C#, Web Services and Sql Server. In this project, I worked as a freelance consultant involved in requirements gathering, integration design and software development phases. In this project I worked on building the Job Creation and Job Feedback business processes. Easy Assist Jobs Portal: This was a web application project that involves the management of company jobs, job search, candidate profiles and candidate search. It is developed using Asp.Net MVC 5, Angular, C#, Entity Framework 6, JQuery, Identity 2.0 and Sql Server. In this project, I was working as a freelance consultant involved in requirements gathering and software development phases.
Freelance Content Creator | Video Producer & Social Media Strategist
Freelance (Self employed)Freelance
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
2 years 6 months
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BizTalk/Azure Integration Consultant (Contract)
CACI International Inc
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
6 months
London, UK
This is a BizTalk/Azure project, implemented to integrate Sales, Purchase data from multiple garden centres of Wyevale. In this project, I am working as a software consultant and was involved in integration design and software development phases. I am involved in architecting, developing and testing the complete project including Sales, Purchase, Shipments and Receipts data. The technologies included BizTalk Server, Azure Functions, Azure Logic apps, Api Management, Azure Data factory, Service Bus, Xml, Xsl etc. I am also managing builds, unit tests, sprints and tasks on Azure DevOps.
Managed Services Consultant – BizTalk / Technical Trainer (Contract)
Version 1
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
5 months
Donabate, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Courts Summons Integration Description: This was a BizTalk middleware project, implemented to integrate summons and acknowledgement scenario between Irish Court and Police department. In this project, I was working as a contractor Team Lead, and was involved in requirements gathering, high level integration design, and architecture and software development of the project. I was also training 5 developers in the Integrations domain.
Principal Software Engineer / Technical Lead
Ciklum
Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
1 year 8 months
This was a BizTalk middleware project, implemented to integrate Sales, Purchase data from various departments of Atea IT. In this project, I worked as a principal software engineer involved in requirements gathering, integration design and software development phases. I was involved in architecture, development and testing the complete project including Sales, Purchase, Item, Invoice and Customer data.The project utilized BizTalk 2013, Cloud, C#, FTP, HTTP and Sql Server etc.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) | Expert in Healthcare IT Solutions and EDI Integration
PatientTrac Information Technology Corporation
Jul 2014 - Mar 2016
1 year 9 months
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Web Md - Patient Trac Biztalk Integration Description: This integration project involved the generation of medical claims for PatientTrac’s EMR system using EDI 270, 271, 835 and 837 specifications and HL7 standards. It is developed using BizTalk Server, Sql Server, Xml and C#.Net. In this project, I worked as a CTO handling requirements gathering, designing, developing and testing the application. I was also coordinating and leading an outsourced team for development of various application components.
SOA Architect/Senior Biztalk Developer
Fortum
Feb 2012 - Jul 2014
2 years 6 months
Espoo, Finland
In Fortum, I was wearing two hats: SOA Architect: : As the Lead SOA Architect, I was defining SOA processes on enterprise and divisional scales, defining and reviewing WSDL, schemas and contracts, and outsourcing and managing SOA services vendors. BizTalk Developer: I was part of the Corporate IT Services team. In this team, my main responsibilities included analysis, design, development, testing and support of various integration and SOA projects. In addition, I am also involved in interaction with relevant customers and vendors during the development of these projects. These integrations and services were developed using Biztalk Server, C#.Net, WCF, Xml, Xsl, IBM WebSphere MQ, Oracle, Soap UI, Windows Azure and Web Services.
Software Engineer | Procurement Performance Management Solutions | C#, VB.Net, WCF Expert
Sievo Oy
Jan 2009 - Dec 2011
3 years
Helsinki, Finland
At Sievo I was responsible for analysis, design, development and testing of its main product: "Sievo Procurement Performance Management Application". This project offers a cost-efficient solution that enables a company to reap the benefits of procurement savings initiatives. This product was developed using C#.Net, VB.Net, WCF, Sql Server and QlikView.
Lead Software Engineer – Full-Stack Development for Educational Apps
Mindbridge Pvt Ltd
Dec 2007 - Aug 2008
9 months
At Mindbridge, I had the responsibility to lead the development of its "Tutoring" application system. My daily tasks included obtaining requirements from the product owner, communicating them to the team and implementing and testing according to the obtained requirements. This product was developed using C#.Net, Asp.Net, Adobe Acrobat Connect and Sql Server.
Software Engineer - B2B Integration Specialist
Techlogix
Feb 2007 - Dec 2007
11 months
At Techlogix I was responsible for developing B2B integration between two applications: Quick Arrow Web service, and Intacct Xml API. I was involved in client interaction, implementation and testing phases as well during this project. This application was developed using Biztalk Server, Xml, Xsl and C#.Net.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technology and Leadership - Executive education
Business Strategy · Strategic Planning · IT Strategy · IT Infrastructure Planning · Relationship Building · Executive Management · Stakeholder Management · Strategic Planning · Software Design · Vendor Relations · Enterprise Solution Design · Process Improvement
Aalto University
Master's degree, Service Design And Engineering
Licenses & certifications
Leadership & Innovation
Issued: Dec 2023
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
Issued: Jan 2023