Engineering & Security
Under One Roof

Imran is a CISSP & CCSP certified security professional who founded Tech Guard to bring enterprise grade engineering to small & mid market businesses. A Virginia Commonwealth University graduate, he carries credentials across the full surface of modern technology risk: CISSP & CCSP from ISC2, AIGP for AI governance, AAISM for AI security management, plus AWS & Azure. He advises, then implements.

He owns the architecture on every engagement. That means designing zero trust networks & identity models, setting encryption & data loss prevention standards, & mapping each build to the framework a client answers to, whether that is HIPAA, PCI, the FTC Safeguards Rule, or a cyber insurance checklist. The security model is decided up front, by him, before a line of code is written.

His enterprise background in data protection & governance is what lets him translate a regulation into a working system & a business risk into a number a leader can act on. From a help desk agent triaging tickets at 3 AM to a full stack modernization, Imran sets the direction & the standard.

Waleed joined his brother Imran to help drive Tech Guard after eight years in high value client sales, & since 2023 he’s been living in the cloud & AI engineering space. He runs operations & builds: certified across Microsoft Azure & AWS, owns full stack integration from the infrastructure a system runs through the application layer people actually use.

His work now covers where a system lives as much as how it is built. He provisions & hardens cloud environments with a concentration in Azure, & deploys AI models where the client needs them to run: on hardware they control, inside their own systems, or in the cloud. For an organization whose records cannot leave its custody, that is the whole difference. He scopes the work, holds the schedule, & stays the point of contact from the first call through handoff.

He holds Anthropic’s Claude Partner Badge for Claude Code & leads our Claude & Claude Code consulting: scoping, deploying, configuring, & running Claude Code end to end inside a client’s own engineering workflow, from the security review through custom commands, Skills, hooks, & the telemetry that shows what it is doing.

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Adnan is a cybersecurity leader with more than fourteen years architecting & operationalizing enterprise security strategy. A George Mason University graduate, he directs Tech Guard's security & infrastructure practice & sets the standard every build is measured against.

His depth is in AI governance & modern cloud security: designing secure by design programs that hold up across complex AI & machine learning systems & highly regulated environments. He translates risk into terms leaders can act on, aligning security with business enablement so protection moves the business forward.

He has spent his career building & leading high performing teams that deliver scalable, measurable outcomes, & brings that same standard here: protection engineered in from the start, documented, & accountable.

Zak is a DevOps Engineer & University of Virginia computer science graduate, AWS Cloud certified, working where application code meets the infrastructure it runs on.

He automates the path from commit to production, building continuous integration & delivery pipelines, provisioning cloud resources as code, & setting up the monitoring that catches problems before clients ever notice them.

He has a knack for turning manual, error prone steps into reliable automation, with a particular interest in the tooling that keeps AI driven systems stable at scale, so what Tech Guard ships lands cleanly & stays that way.