Acting, Chief Information Officer
Gulam Shakir
Gulam is NARA's Acting Chief Information Officer, since December 2024. Previously, Gulam was NARA鈥檚 Chief Technology Officer from 2020. In his CTO role, Gulam established agency-wide enterprise technology architectures and provided program level IT strategic direction to mission critical programs.
Some of Gulam鈥檚 recent achievements include exploring options for the transfer of electronic records from various cloud sources, providing secure access to partners in external agencies, migration of legacy applications to the cloud, and advising on the modernization of legacy applications that process requests to veteran鈥檚 records
Currently, As NARA's Chief AI Officer, Gulam is leading a few AI related pilots to improve search within the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Catalog, to detect Personally identifiable information (PII) within NARA records before releasing it to the public, and to create AI-assisted first draft of descriptive metadata for NARA鈥檚 records.
In the past, Gulam has served as NARA鈥檚 Chief Data Officer and as a System Architect within Information Services since 2016. Before joining NARA, Gulam served in various technical leadership roles at DataXu, Inc., Marchex, Inc., and IBM Corporation. He has a Master of Science degree in computer science from West Virginia University.