Graduate Physicist · Senior IT Manager

Turning complex IT
into measurable progress.

Senior IT leader with more than 25 years of experience across banking, digital health, government and energy - combining strategy, delivery, cyber security and strong team leadership.

Recent portrait photo of Hamid Shefaat
Based in Berlin & Zurich
25+years in IT leadership
15+years in finance
8+years in healthcare
2international patents
Core expertise

Leadership at the intersection of business and technology.

From strategic roadmaps to complex releases and operational resilience, Hamid connects executive objectives with practical, secure and scalable delivery.

01

IT Strategy & Transformation

IT strategy, change management, process optimization, cloud adoption and stakeholder alignment.

02

Program & Project Delivery

End-to-end planning across budget, technology, schedule, partners, testing and major releases.

03

Cyber Security & Resilience

Security architecture, ISO 27001, penetration analysis, emergency management, backup and recovery.

04

Banking & FinTech

Core banking, Avaloq, neobanking, portfolio systems, data centers and regulated delivery environments.

05

Digital Health

Patient apps, healthcare platforms, interfaces and IT modernization in hospital environments.

06

Team & Vendor Leadership

Building teams, guiding service providers and coordinating internal and external partners.

Selected work

Projects with visible business impact.

A selection of recent and long-term assignments across banking, digital health, government, energy and hospital operations.

Project Manager · Banking

Product and test management for a major banking release, including robust project documentation and release implementation in an Avaloq environment.

Focus: Product management · Test management · Major release

Product & Project Manager · NeoBank

Planned and delivered a neobanking product and app for fiat and crypto services, completed within time and budget.

Focus: Product planning · App delivery · FinTech

Project Manager · Digital Health

Led a patient app introduction, built the team and coordinated interfaces with Magrathea and CGM using Python and Django.

Focus: Patient app · Interfaces · Team building

Technical Project Lead · Government

Technical leadership, temporary team management and support for central cloud-based device management with Microsoft Intune.

Focus: Public sector · Intune · Technical leadership

IT Operations & Project Leadership

Managed full IT landscapes, budgets, data centers, outsourcing partners and major migrations across banking, energy and healthcare.

Focus: Operations · Infrastructure · Multi-team leadership
Technology

Broad technical depth. Clear management focus.

A hands-on understanding of modern infrastructure, software delivery and security enables realistic decisions and credible technical leadership.

Platforms & Engineering

AWSAzureGCPDockerKubernetesVMwarePythonDjangoSQLGitLab CIJenkinsLinux / Unix

Security & Delivery

ISO 27001, SSL/TLS and encryption technologies
Penetration testing and security analysis
Agile methods: Scrum, Kanban and agile frameworks
Jira, Confluence and Trello
AI strategy and tools including OpenAI, Claude and Gemini
Open-source strategies and technologies
Innovation

Patents and forward-looking research.

International intellectual property and publications demonstrate a long-term interest in emerging technology beyond day-to-day delivery.

DE102021001995A1

Quantum Cyber Security

International patent in the field of quantum cyber security.

WO2018042053A1

Life Science

International patent in the field of life science.

PUBLICATIONS

Open Source & Econophysics

Publications covering open-source technologies and econophysics.

Contact

Let’s discuss your next critical IT initiative.

Available for senior IT management, project leadership, transformation and security-focused assignments in Germany, Switzerland and international environments.