Irfan Ilyas
Founder · Senior Solution Architect, Agentic AI · PhD Candidate, Information Systems
Irfan is a Senior Solution Architect at EPAM Systems, where he designs and builds production-grade AI systems for enterprise clients across financial services, retail, healthcare, and hospitality. Over the past few years he's led the development of 14+ agentic AI solutions — real systems that automate DevOps workflows, manage SLO compliance, and handle incident resolution using tools like Anthropic Claude and OpenAI GPT-4.
He's also trained over 150 professionals on M365 Copilot and AI development, including workshops run alongside Microsoft trainers. His rule is straightforward: he only teaches what he's already built and shipped. If it's in the curriculum, it works in the real world.
🤖 GitHub Copilot · Microsoft
🧠 Generative AI Leader · Google
☁️ Azure AI Fundamentals · Microsoft
🔶 AWS Certified AI Practitioner
⚙️ Professional Cloud DevOps · Google
☸️ Certified Kubernetes Admin (CKA)
🏗️ Terraform Associate · HashiCorp
📐 AWS Solutions Architect · Associate
📊 PMP · Project Mgmt Institute
- Built and shipped 14+ agentic AI solutions at EPAM Systems, covering DevOps automation, SRE workflows, and enterprise operations (2024–Present)
- Trained 150+ employees on M365 Copilot and custom AI development through workshops delivered alongside Microsoft trainers
- Lead SRE at Loblaw Companies, managing a 15+ member team responsible for pharmacy app reliability across Shoppers Drug Mart and MediSystem
- Built RAG pipelines, LLM evaluation frameworks, and multi-agent testing systems that run in production today
- 10+ years delivering cloud, DevOps, and observability solutions across GCP, Azure, and AWS
- PhD candidate in Information Systems, Memorial University of Newfoundland & Labrador