Abdul Samad Mohammed received a 2025 Global Recognition Award for leadership, innovation, and mentoring in IT, driving major infrastructure advancements at Domino’s Pizza, enhancing service reliability, modernizing systems, and fostering talent development across the organization and broader technology industry.
— Information technology leader Abdul Samad Mohammed has been honored with a 2025 Global Recognition Award for his exceptional contributions to leadership, innovation, service, and mentoring in the tech industry. The prestigious award recognizes Mohammed’s transformative work as the technical leader for Domino’s Pizza’s global platform and site reliability group, where he has guided the organization through complex technological changes while maintaining seamless operations of one of the world’s busiest restaurant platforms.
Mohammed’s influence extends beyond technical execution to shaping the culture and future direction of mission-critical infrastructure supporting millions of users and billions in revenue worldwide. His strategic vision has modernized essential business platforms, while his dedication to service reliability and talent development has created lasting value for Domino’s Pizza and the wider technology sector.
Strategic Leadership and Lasting Influence
Mohammed’s leadership is characterized by his remarkable ability to anticipate and address the evolving needs of a global enterprise. He consistently delivers results that reflect a profound understanding of technology and business priorities. He designed and implemented Domino’s first comprehensive migration to Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code, modernizing core business functions including ordering, store reporting, and franchise analytics while maintaining uninterrupted daily operations that process hundreds of thousands of orders.
His careful management of a zero-downtime, overnight migration for Domino’s high-visibility sales-reporting database protected franchise revenue reporting and established new reliability standards. The successful implementation resulted in annual performance awards and accelerated compensation milestones, demonstrating the significant business impact of his technical leadership.
“Excellence multiplies when it is shared,” reflects Mohammed’s philosophy, which has guided his approach to team leadership. This approach centers on empowering others and fostering a culture where creativity and ethical decision-making are highly valued. Team members consistently give him high marks for integrity and innovation in leadership assessments, with many describing him as their primary leader for navigating complex challenges and driving sustainable improvements.
Innovation and Operational Excellence
Mohammed’s career is distinguished by his introduction of full-stack automation tools such as Puppet and Ansible, which dramatically reduced server build times from days to under 30 minutes and nearly eliminated configuration drift. His deployment of unified observability platforms—including Splunk and Grafana—Prometheus-enabled real-time correlation of application, operating system, and infrastructure signals, resulting in more than a 40 percent reduction in mean time to root cause for system issues.
Storage modernization initiatives, including the migration of 10 terabytes of data to Pure flash storage, removed performance bottlenecks and established reusable practices adopted throughout the organization. His contributions directly protect revenue streams and enhance customer experience for a brand serving over 18,000 restaurants globally, as he virtualized key systems, strengthened security to meet SOX and PCI compliance, and embedded site reliability engineering practices.
“The technical infrastructure we’ve built allows our business teams to confidently launch new menu promotions and e-commerce features, knowing our platform can scale as needed,” Mohammed noted when discussing the impact of his work. Implementing these innovative solutions has reduced unplanned infrastructure outages by over 35 percent year-over-year, creating a more stable environment for business operations.
Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing
Mohammed’s commitment to mentoring has amplified his impact across the organization through his leadership of weekly learning sessions and code reviews that guide junior engineers in Linux internals, automation scripting, and site reliability engineering methodology. Many of his mentees have advanced from support roles to lead-engineer positions, expanding the organization’s capacity for innovation and technical excellence while creating a sustainable pipeline of talent.
His mentoring approach is structured and inclusive, focusing on frameworks that support the career growth of a diverse range of talent within the technology sector. Mentees consistently highlight his effectiveness in supporting professional growth and building a culture of continuous learning, with many crediting their progression into leadership roles to his guidance and support.
“Abdul Samad created an environment where questions are welcomed and learning is constant, which transformed how I approach technical challenges,” shared one of his mentees who has since advanced to a senior engineering role. The development of formal mentoring programs under his guidance has had a measurable effect on organizational and industry talent development, ensuring his influence will continue for years.
“Abdul Samad Mohammed exemplifies the standards of excellence that the Global Recognition Awards seek to acknowledge,” stated spokesperson Alex Sterling. His strategic vision and technical expertise have modernized essential business platforms. At the same time, his dedication to service reliability and talent development has created lasting value for his organization and the wider industry.
Mohammed’s recognition with a 2025 Global Recognition Award demonstrates his world-class achievements in leadership, innovation, service, and mentoring. His work serves as a model for aspiring leaders and innovators in the technology sector, showing how technical expertise combined with people-focused leadership can drive organizational success and industry advancement.
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