Mani Chandrasekaran — CTO

As a CTO-in-Residence at AWS, Mani serves as a trusted advisor to C-level executives from AWS to most strategic customers and partners to drive cloud-based transformations, guiding senior leaders through cloud migration, product development innovation, governance, digital and AI transformation initiatives. As an Enterprise Technologist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for India and South Asia, I collaborate with organizations to navigate complex business and technology transformations by leveraging cloud computing and emerging technologies. Partnering with CxOs and technology leaders, our team defines strategic technology visions and enables innovation that drives measurable business value. My focus areas include Generative AI - Agents, Path to production, Digital Transformation, multi-cloud strategies, Application Transformation, and Resilience, which are crucial for companies adapting to rapidly evolving market demands. With over 25+ years of technology and management experience across India, APJ and the US, I have consistently contributed to designing and implementing impactful solutions across diverse domains and geographies including ISVs, Enterprises, Startups and Digital Native customers. At AWS, I lead discussions with strategic customers while fostering thought leadership through public speaking and technical engagements. My tech certifications, including multiple AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, and Google Cloud accreditation's, reflect a commitment to continuous learning and cloud innovation. Passionate about technology, I aim to empower teams and organizations to solve real-world challenges with cutting-edge solutions. I have also led Software solutions engineering, Presales, and product engineering high performing teams, and delivered mission critical products and solutions. I am also an Independent Director registered with Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA).

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Transformation Expert with extensive experience in Enterprise Architecture and AI-driven solutions.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 29 yrs 5 mos

Skills

Cloud Computing
Generative Ai

Career Highlights

Over 25 years of technology and management experience.
Expert in cloud-based transformations and AI initiatives.
Strong leadership in driving measurable business value.

Work Experience

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Field CTO and Enterprise Technologist at AWS for India and South Asia (2 yrs 2 mos)

Principal Solutions Architect, India & South Asia (1 yr 5 mos)

Solution Architect - Lead/Principal Solutions Architect (1 yr)

Principal Solutions Architect, Containers - Amazon Web Services India Pvt. Ltd. (6 mos)

Principal, Solutions Architect - Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd. (8 mos)

Senior Solutions Architect - Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd. (3 yrs 6 mos)

EMC

Advisory Consultant (2 yrs)

Aptean

Principal engineer (0 mo)

Hewlett-Packard

Master Architect (1 yr 11 mos)

iGATE

Practice Lead - Cloud Solutions (1 yr 2 mos)

Sun Microsystems

Senior Manager/Enterprise Software Architect (2 yrs 11 mos)

Staff Engineer/Engg Manager (6 mos)

Java Architect/Tech Lead (4 yrs 9 mos)

Fidelity Investments

Solution Architect (7 mos)

iPlanet/Netscape

Principal Consultant (7 mos)

Razorfish

Tech Lead (1 yr)

4CS

Technical Team Lead (1 yr 4 mos)

Honeywell

Project Leader (2 yrs 8 mos)

BFL Software

Systems Engineer (10 mos)

Education

MS at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Executive General Management Program at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

BE at University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE)

Diploma in Computer Science at Sri Jayachamarajendra (Govt.) Polytechnic - SJP

Mani Chandrasekaran

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India29 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 25 years of technology and management experience.
Expert in cloud-based transformations and AI initiatives.
Strong leadership in driving measurable business value.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Transformation Expert with extensive experience in Enterprise Architecture and AI-driven solutions.

Contact

mani.chandra@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingGenerative Ai

Other Skills

AI AgentsAWS GlueAWS SageMakerAccess ManagementAgile MethodologiesAmazon BedrockAmazon EC2Amazon Web Services (AWS)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataChefClouderaData AnalyticsDevOpsDigital Transformation

About

Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

6 roles

Field CTO and Enterprise Technologist at AWS for India and South Asia

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

As a CTO-in-Residence at AWS, Mani serves as a trusted advisor to C-level executives from AWS most strategic customers and partners to drive cloud-based transformations, guiding senior leaders through cloud migration, product development innovation, governance, digital and AI transformation initiatives. Mani is a hands-on practitioner, able to work with CxO's, and builders with strategies and practical guidance to accelerate Cloud and AI adoption, and drive cultural shifts to meet business outcomes.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud ComputingGenerative AILeadershipResilience

Principal Solutions Architect, India & South Asia

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

Lead Architect/Chief Technologist in India working across all customers segments helping our customers understand how they can constantly drive value for their business from cloud computing and emerging technologies. The main responsibilities for Chief Technologists are twofold: (i) identify and propose a broad technology vision and overcome obstacles in a strategic set of high-profile customers whilst establishing technical credibility with CTOs, CIOs, Chief Architects, or similar executives., (ii) define overarching technical thought leadership internally and externally and deliver high profile public speaking and media engagements.

Solution Architect - Lead/Principal Solutions Architect

Jun 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr

Lead a team of Solutions Architects as part of the ITeS/GSI vertical in Enterprises
Hiring, Performance Management
Principal SA, App Modernization and other hats ..

Principal Solutions Architect, Containers - Amazon Web Services India Pvt. Ltd.

Dec 2020 – Jun 2021 · 6 mos

Container Specialist in India
all things AWS Container services - ECS, EKS, Fargate ;-)
Thought leadership & Mentoring

Principal, Solutions Architect - Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.

Promoted

Apr 2020 – Dec 2020 · 8 mos

Working with Enterprise Customers in India
Thought leadership

Senior Solutions Architect - Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.

Sep 2016 – Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Emc

Advisory Consultant

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area

Cloud, Cloud Foundry, DevOps, BigData, Spring, Gemfire, Hadoop, Redis - stack from EMC/Pivotal/VMware
Architecting Cloud Native Apps
Application & IT Transformation
Enterprise Architect

Aptean

Principal engineer

Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 · 0 mo

Cloud, Performance, Build ..

Hewlett-packard

Master Architect

Jan 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

Lead customer engagements around Enterprise/Solution architecture, Cloud assessments, Application modernization/Rationalization and IT transformation

Igate

Practice Lead - Cloud Solutions

Jan 2011 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading Cloud solution development
Cloud based solutions, projects and consulting/assessments
Expertise on Cloud ecosystem - Public, Private Cloud and Cloud management and Cloud security, including AWS (Amazon), Microsoft Azure, Google, vmware and others.

Sun microsystems

3 roles

Senior Manager/Enterprise Software Architect

Nov 2007 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos

> Expert on Sun Java Middleware stack. Can architect and design end to end large scale enterprise architecture using various Sun Middleware architectures.
> Been involved in solutioning architectures of large multi-million dollar and complex projects in India and in the US.
> Hands-on expertise on Java, Java EE , Oracle Fusion Middleware and Sun Middleware and MySQL products.
> Manage a team of Solution Architects.
> Pre-sales technical activities for Sun India Software practice.
> Have worked as an Lead Architect in projects in the BFSI, Retail, Telecom and Government verticals. Expert in solutioning in very large, complex n-tier applications.

Staff Engineer/Engg Manager

Promoted

May 2007 – Nov 2007 · 6 mos

Technical Lead for the Sun OTP product in India.
Acting Manager for engineers in India.

Java Architect/Tech Lead

Dec 2001 – Sep 2006 · 4 yrs 9 mos

> Worked with Fortune 100 companies in the US as part of Sun software services
> Worked as a Technical Lead in the ISV engineering team - ISV engineering activities, Working with System Integrators to setup Sun Center of Excellence, Porting and Tuning ISV products
> Worked on large scale web and enterprise integration projects, end to end
> Worked on Exec level Red alerts, crisis situations on production systems at customer sites
> Expert on Application Server, Java, J2EE, Portal and Identity/Security/Directory products

Fidelity investments

Solution Architect

Sep 2006 – Apr 2007 · 7 mos

> Part of Enterprise Architects Group

Iplanet/netscape

Principal Consultant

May 2001 – Dec 2001 · 7 mos

Consulting on iPlanet middleware for Fortune 100 companies in the US.

Razorfish

Tech Lead

May 2000 – May 2001 · 1 yr

This job brought me to Boston from the Midwest, for which I am truly thankful and grateful. I also did my first iPlanet/J2EE project, saw a lot of the web design/artistic folks with red/green/blue hair, a very interesting "dot-com/dot-bomb" experience :-)