Aysha Begum
Managing DirectorSets the firm’s strategy, capital allocation, and partner standard. Two decades guiding regulated enterprises through transformation. Personally underwrites every Tier-1 engagement.
Founded in 2010. Today: 500+ engineers, designers, and consultants in 22+ countries — partnering with the leaders we admire and the regulators we respect.
We were started by engineers and CIOs who watched too many transformation programmes ship decks. RapidData was built to be the firm we wished had been there to call — one accountable team, named outcomes, audit-ready by default.
Sector consultants, designers, engineers, architects, scientists. Half deployed in client teams, half on our platforms. Median tenure: 6.4 years.
From AI underwriting at sovereign banks to citizen platforms at federal agencies. Public sector, banking, healthcare, energy, retail, telecom — at audit-grade standard.
Sets the firm’s strategy, capital allocation, and partner standard. Two decades guiding regulated enterprises through transformation. Personally underwrites every Tier-1 engagement.
Architect of the RapidData platform stack. Sets engineering excellence, AI governance, and the technical bar every client deliverable is held to.
Runs delivery, programme governance, and the firm’s 500+ specialist workforce. Owns the SLAs, the stand-ups, and the standard of execution from kickoff to go-live.
Owns the reference architectures that ship into banks, ministries, and health systems. AWS / Azure / GCP certified across multiple specialties; lead reviewer on every regulated platform we deliver.
Leads the engineering practice across cloud-native, AI workloads, and Mendix low-code. Mentors squad leads, sets the code standard, and runs RapidData’s engineering academy.
Translates client outcomes into shippable platforms. Owns RapidHub, RapidLend, and the cross-platform reference solutions that power 60+ production AI workloads.
Builds and protects RapidData’s most important asset — the people. Designs talent strategy, learning pathways, and the partnership culture clients feel from day one.
Senior partner-facing voice across the GCC. Twenty years in regulated industries, 15+ banks and government agencies brought to the firm; knows your regulator before the briefing starts.
Leads the firm’s growth across India, ASEAN, and Australia. Telecom, BFSI, and public-sector specialist; pairs commercial acumen with deep delivery knowledge.
Drives revenue growth by identifying opportunities, building partnerships, leading sales strategy, expanding markets, and securing high-value enterprise deals globally.
The platforms our clients run on, and the providers who certify our delivery quality.
Reference landing zones, sovereign deployments, and FinOps at scale across the GCC, India, and EMEA.
Azure-native enterprise platforms, AI Foundry workloads, and government-cloud delivery in 9 jurisdictions.
BigQuery / Vertex AI architecture, GKE-based platforms, and joint go-to-market for regulated industries.
OCI sovereign deployments and Oracle ERP / EBS modernisation programmes for regulated customers.
watsonx, Cloud Pak for Data, and Db2 modernisation programmes for regulated and sovereign deployments.
Centre of Excellence delivery model with 500+ certified developers and an enterprise reference architecture.
Native semantic layer, Snowpark, and governed marketplaces for regulated enterprise reporting.
Lakehouse, Mosaic AI, and Unity Catalog programmes powering BFS, healthcare, and pharma data fabrics.
Cloudera Data Platform across hybrid and sovereign environments, with Iceberg-native storage for regulated customers.
End-to-end data science and ML operations — from prep to productionised models with full lineage.
Joint reference architectures for sovereign Claude deployments in regulated jurisdictions.
Production GenAI workloads with content firewalls, evaluations, and audit-grade governance.
“Every engagement names its outcome. Every outcome has a number. Every number has an owner. Every quarter, we show our work.”
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