Professional experience

The work behind the logos

Selected engagements from Ahmed Soliman's career in enterprise IT and security: what the organisation needed, what was delivered and what changed.

Seismic technology · UK, global operations

Stryde

Bring a fast-growing engineering company's infrastructure to an audit-ready standard: certify against Cyber Essentials Plus, tighten identity governance, satisfy external IT general controls audits, and move ageing on-premises file servers into Azure without disrupting engineering teams.

Read more →
UK local government

Oxford City Council

Move a council estate of over 1,000 devices away from imaging, on-premises management and third-party tools towards cloud-managed Intune, Microsoft Defender and Conditional Access, while raising compliance and keeping front-line services running.

Read more →
Energy · Norway

Aibel

Own cyber security and network engineering across more than 25 project packages on a live EPC programme: turn IEC 62443 and the applicable legislation into project requirements, split the scope cleanly between operator, contractor and suppliers, design the segmentation and the interfaces, run the risk assessments, and prove the result at factory and site acceptance before anything is energised.

Read more →
Biomedical research · UK

UK Biobank

Deliver managed, compliant Windows 11 virtual desktops on AWS WorkSpaces for a new secure workflow, on a dedicated identity directory separate from the corporate tenant, so that every machine is enrolled, encrypted, monitored and running approved software before a user ever signs in — and repeatable for the next environment.

Read more →
Venture capital · London

Greyhound Capital

Stand up Intune and Windows Autopilot for every device, move identity, SSO and provisioning onto Okta, enable MFA and passwordless sign-in, retire Duo and Kandji, tie Microsoft 365 licensing to the HR system so joiners and leavers are automatic, and keep Google and Microsoft 365 calendars working together — in three to four weeks, mostly on-site.

Read more →
3D machine vision · Norway

Zivid

Give a fast-growing engineering company senior security ownership for 15–30 hours a month: start by finding every device, writing the policy for how they are used, selecting and rolling out a management platform; then bring up the security tooling, report fortnightly to stakeholders, and leave the internal team able to run it.

Read more →
Food & e-commerce · London and New Jersey

graze

Take a multi-site, multi-cloud company from hands-on device builds and scattered logins to a managed, single-sign-on estate — without interrupting production or the online shop.

Read more →
AI / SaaS scale-up · London

Signal AI

Give a fast-moving scale-up senior IT and security ownership on a part-time basis: get every device enrolled and managed, standardise identity and access, close the email-security gaps that customer due diligence flags first, move the remaining on-premises services to the cloud without downtime, and leave practices the team can keep running.

Read more →

Not sure where your business stands?

Book a free 30-minute call. We will tell you the three things we would fix first — no report to buy, no hard sell.

Book a free call