About

Founder-led cloud work, shown in public.

The panels, workshops, event rooms, and interview footage here show the communication style behind ZoKorp.

The work stays intentionally small. The standard behind it comes from bigger rooms.

Founder
Zohaib Khawaja
Base
Houston, TX
Credential
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Response
Initial response within one business day
Zohaib Khawaja presenting an AI agents talk on stage
Speaking

Public technical explanation.

The operating style is visible in the room, not hidden behind positioning.

Zohaib Khawaja at AWS Summit inside the venue atrium
Fieldwork

Fieldwork

Enterprise context, smaller delivery.

The current scope stays small. The pattern recognition does not.

Zohaib Khawaja at NVIDIA AI Summit
Events

Events

Signal over theater.

The point is grounded technical judgment, not trend chasing.

Founder background

Larger-environment judgment. Smaller-practice delivery.

Before ZoKorp, Zohaib spent years as an AWS Partner Solutions Architect and enterprise AI architect — closing $60M+ in partner contracts, influencing $200M+ in cloud spend, and building production AI at organizations including Warner Bros., the NHL, D.R. Horton, and Cohere. That includes a HIPAA-compliant AI IVR that cut urgent-care wait time from 94 minutes to 22, and an Azure LLMOps platform for the NHL with multi-GPU training and per-request cost attribution.

ZoKorp is intentionally small. Fixed-scope engagements, visible pricing, and Zohaib on every project — not a junior analyst, not an account manager. The background is enterprise. The delivery is direct.

Zohaib Khawaja participating in a panel discussion on stage
Panels

Comfortable in higher-stakes rooms.

That experience shows up now as tighter scope and clearer follow-through.

StrongDM and AWS workshop poster featuring Zohaib Khawaja

Workshop

Hands-on sessions, not abstract positioning.

Partner-facing technical delivery under public brand standards.

77%
Urgent-care wait time cut
$60M+
Partner contracts closed
$200M+
Customer revenue influenced

Selected background

Experience includes work involving organizations such as D.R. Horton, SiriusXM, Warner Bros., JE Dunn, Cohere, Glean, Anthropic, and the National Hockey League.

Across homebuilding, construction, media, enterprise software, frontier AI, and sports.

Organization names are included as background context and do not imply endorsement.

Why it matters now

What clients actually get.

Bigger-environment experience only matters if it makes smaller-team work clearer, faster, and more grounded.

  1. 01

    Cleaner decision-making shaped by larger environments.

  2. 02

    Clearer communication when more stakeholders are involved.

  3. 03

    Tighter scoping and sharper risk judgment.

Zohaib Khawaja speaking to a Cloudathon at UH audience
Teaching

Direct workshop and stage work.

The same delivery style carries into reviews, scoping, and write-ups.

Zohaib Khawaja at Houston Community College with event participants
Community

Community

Public-facing education work.

Clarity matters more when the room is mixed and the audience is live.

Credentials

Named background, named credentials.

Certifications are direct. The speaking and teaching work is public and verifiable.

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional
  • AI Solutions Engineer, Microsoft Azure
  • AI Professor, Houston Community College
  • AWS Summit | NVIDIA AI Summit | StrongDM Workshop facilitator

Why I built this

In your corner. Not the highest bidder.

I build this software because I would trust it on my own clients' work. Everything below is a stance, not marketing.

Your data stays yours
Diagrams, architecture details, and validation inputs are not sold, not repackaged, and not used to train outside models. Results go to the signed-in verified email on each run and nowhere else.
Each tool is isolated
Architecture Reviewer, ZoKorpValidator, and Forecasting Beta each live in their own tree. A change to one cannot silently alter another. The isolation contract is documented and enforced by tests.
Priced to keep the lights on
The free diagnostic stays free. Paid tiers exist to cover compute and delivery cost, not to squeeze a captive customer. If a free run is enough, that is the right answer.
Small practice, on purpose
ZoKorp is one founder, direct delivery, no account managers. That is what lets the promises above stay literal — there is no second layer of incentives pulling against them.

Interview

Interview footage, embedded here.

This player opens at the point where Zohaib is introduced during the Houston Community College interview from the AWS period. It stays here because moving video says more than another block of proof copy.

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