Senior architects, engineers and instructors

Decades of combined experience across enterprise networking, cybersecurity, data center, cloud and AI — the same people who design client infrastructure also teach on it.

Leadership

Imran A.

Chairman & CEO

Abubakar Siddiqui

Chief Information Security Officer

Ghulam Qadir

Chief Operating Officer

Furqan Syed

Chief of Business Operations

Syed Farhan Ali

Chief Legal Officer

Zain Hassan

Chief Technical Officer

Salman Sadiq

Director – Operations, Data Center Services

Our experts & instructors

Taught by working architects

A team of practitioners whose combined expertise covers every NetEra track — networking, security, firewalls, cloud, data center, automation, AI and industrial.

Imran A.

Network Design & Automation Architect

Designs and automates enterprise, data-center, collaboration and service-provider networks at scale.

CCDE

CCDE Specialist – LSN

3× CCIE (Collab · DC · Wireless)

CCIE 10-Year

ENCOR

SCOR

DCCOR

CLCOR

CCNA Automation

DevNet Associate

DevNet 500

Abubakar Siddiqui

Agentic AI, Network & Security Architect

Architects agentic AI, multi-vendor networks, security and cloud — from AI data-center fabrics to zero-trust and multi-cloud.

CCDE

CCDE Specialist – Large-Scale Networks

4× JNCIE (Sec · ENT · SP)

2× CCIE (DC · Service Provider)CISSP

VCIX-NVNVIDIA AI Networking

AWS SA-Pro · Security · Adv. Networking

Google Professional Cloud Architect

JNCIP (Sec · DC · ENT · Cloud)F5 BIG-IP Administrator

DevNet Specialist – CoreRUCKUS RCNI · CWNA

CCNA (R&S · Security)Zscaler ZIA · ZPA · ZDX

Palo Alto CYBERFORCEIBM Agentic AI

AI Data Center Networks (AIDC)

Nabeel M.

Enterprise, Data-Center & Security Architect

Leads enterprise, data-center and security architecture — from CCIE-level networking to virtualization and security operations.

3× CCIE (EI · Security · DC)

VCIX6-NV

CCNP Enterprise

ENCOR

ENARSI

SCOR

DCCOR

CLCOR

CCNA

Palo Alto ACELogRhythm LRSA / LRPA

MCSA

MCPMSc Cyber Security & Forensics

Ghulam Qadir

Enterprise Networking & Cybersecurity

Builds and secures enterprise and service-provider networks — routing, switching, firewalls, wireless and cloud.

CCIE R&S

CCNP Enterprise

CCNP Service Provider

PCNSE

CCNA R&S

CCNA Security

CCNA Wireless

PCNSA

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

AirWatch EM AssociateHPE Aruba CNA

Salman Sadiq

Senior Network Engineer · Data Center & Enterprise

Plans, designs and operates large multi-vendor networks across telecom, ISP and enterprise — data-center fabrics (Cisco ACI / Nexus), MPLS, SD-WAN and campus.

2× CCIE (R&S · Data Center)

JNCIP-ENTBrocade BCNPBrocade BCEFPBrocade BCVRECisco ACI · Nexus DC

SD-Access · DNA Center

Zain Hassan

Industrial Automation, OT/IT & AI

Implements industrial automation, OT/IT networks and applied AI for modern operations.

Designing Cisco Security Infrastructure | SDSI

CCNA

Fortinet NSE 3

Cisco Network Automation Essentials

Troubleshooting Cisco Enterprise Networking

AI4NE

AI Technical Practitioner

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Between them, our team holds multiple CCDE, CCIE, JNCIE, CISSP and cloud-architect certifications — and together they cover every section of our training.

More about NetEra

Company overview, mission, milestones and values.

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