Apr 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Build executive relationships with strategic customer focus to help influence long-term technology and business decisions. Lead end-to-end design as a trusted adviser driving compelling insights & ideas with follow through execution. Migrate and modernize the entire eco-system from on-prem to cloud.
• Dive deep in Serverless and Container architectural discussions to accelerate modernization for AWS customers. Work as a trusted partner of customer to select the right technical strategy across Kubernetes (EKS), AWS container service (ECS), and Serverless. Successfully architected and led projects on adopting Karpenter, creating standardized Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) on Kubernetes, executing Serverless first strategy, migrating from self-managed K8s to EKS; across crucial customers. Scaled knowledge by speaking at major conferences such as AWS Re:Invent/Summit, writing blogs, creating quick starts, and reference architectures, conducting one-to-many workshops, immersion days, and training sessions on AWS Services.
• Evaluate cutting-edge technology products, such as CNCF ecosystem tools, generative AI products, new AWS services, to determine suitability across a wide range of applications.
• Mentor team members and other Amazonians to help them achieve their career goals. Conduct interviews and help in hiring and developing the best.

May 2020 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Build executive relationships with strategic customer focus to help influence long-term technology and business decisions. Lead end-to-end design as a trusted adviser driving compelling insights & ideas with follow through execution
• Dive deep in Serverless and Container architectural discussions to accelerate modernization for AWS customers. Work as a trusted partner of customer to select the right technical strategy across Kubernetes (EKS), AWS container service (ECS), and Serverless.
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many workshops, immersion days, training sessions on AWS Services, both internal and external. Mentor team members and other Amazonians to help them achieve their career goals.
• Author or contribute to AWS publications and reference architectures

Feb 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Responsible for creating and driving the technical strategy with sales in the management of accounts with a complex and multi-faceted relationship with AWS. Partnering with customers and several AWS teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that provide solutions to solve customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS services.
• Technical architect and evangelist of AWS cloud platform providing subject matter expertise to customers, partners and the AWS teams I'm aligned with
• Accelerate consumption in high potential customer accounts by providing deep technical expertise and, creation of collateral, and training of sellers and partners in area of specialization
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions on AWS services and designs

Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs · New York, United States

• Tech Advisor for Glimpse, working to create decentralized social media

Mar 2011 – Jan 2019 · 7 yrs 10 mos · Warren, NJ

• Successfully migrated large projects into AWS using AWS migration tools. Modernized large scale projects to Amazon EKS, and Serverless.
• Architected highly scalable, secure, and cost effective architectures using EC2, EKS, Lambda, Trusted Advisor, Inspector, CloudWatch, custom hyperscaling techniques, and third party tools. Received multiple awards from VP and CIOs for delivering projects, and saving multi million dollars in cloud bill.
• Designed and implemented enterprise wide initiatives for cloud adoption, i.e. custom Serverless and Kubernetes framework, database migration strategy, standardizing deployment procedures, Service Catalog, auto remediation, DevOps CI/CD. Scaled learnings via internal and external processes (conference talks, internal webinars, best practices guide, certified CloudFormation templates etc.) Presented to C level executives periodically on progress, roadblocks, and various metrics for cloud initiatives.
• Performed projects to evaluate different vendor and alternate cloud (GCP) products to see if it’s a good fit for Verizon ecosystem.
• Acting as Cloud Evangelist, engaged with applications to understand their business drivers and technology challenges, collaborating with them to accelerate the cloud adoption.
• Educated engineers by presenting in Brown Bag sessions along with AWS, conducting cross geographic hackathons and dojo workshops.
• Created a process to reduce call-in rate using Python, ML models, and Big Data technologies.
• Led a major project of bill estimation in Mainframe, this project (Next Bill Summary) predict next bill anytime a customer does a change in the service. This in turn reduced CIR and saved around 1.4 million calls so far. Received recognition from our Vice President for this project.
• Worked as developer, and tech lead in multiple Mainframe projects - device activation, nightly billing batch jobs, order validation, cost optimization etc. using COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2.

Apr 2004 – Mar 2011 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Newark, DE

• Leading onshore/offshore teams on complex financial projects - convert financial requirements to technical specs, overseeing the development process and ensuring smooth delivery.
• Enhancement of existing system which requires deep financial knowledge on Wire, ACH, Checks, SWIFT messaging, domestic and international funds etc. Developed COBOL programs, CICS screens, DB2 tables, JCL jobs, and REXX automation. Performance tuned code, and databases to optimize time and cost.
• One of the challenges of financial industry is fast moving market and ever changing rules/regulation - I led multiple projects to success on short time frame which involved business, regulatory and different IT teams- ACH interfacing using MQ, JPMC BankOne merger, Third Party Funds Processing to name a few. Received multiple awards and appreciations for leading the charge by quick learning of new systems and effective communication skill.