Taimur Rashid

CEO

Bellevue, Washington, United States24 yrs 8 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Leader in Generative AI innovation at AWS.
Two decades of experience in cloud computing and AI.
Mentor for young founders and startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and cloud computing with a focus on business development and innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Generative AiAi StrategyBusiness ConsultingGtm StrategyAi/ml StrategyProduct ManagementBusiness DevelopmentCloud PartnershipsSolution ArchitectureCustomer EngineeringCloud AdoptionCustomer Success

Other Skills

business valuemarketingLinkedIn Business ManagerSaaSSolution SellingEnterprise SoftwareGo-to-market StrategyStrategic PartnershipsCRMMobile DevicesProduct DevelopmentBig DataManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)Leadership

About

I build what matters. I’ve spent the last two decades at the intersection of cloud computing, AI, and human potential; not to push technology for its own sake, but to shape systems that serve people with dignity and purpose. Raised on values of service, curiosity, and faith, I carry a lifelong fascination with how seemingly small actions compound. Whether building platforms at AWS, leading AI initiatives at Microsoft and Redis, or mentoring young founders; I’ve always been drawn to the question: How can our ambitions and pursuits in life help us become more human, not less? I lead AWS's Generative AI Innovation & Delivery at AWS, helping individuals and organizations unlock real-world value from emerging technologies like AI while keeping people and purpose at the center. We are a premier organization that forward deploys organizations into the era of cognitive abundance comprising of Generative and Agentic AI.

Experience

24 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

Managing Director, Generative AI Innovation Center

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area · On-site

The Generative AI Innovation Center is a specialized team for advancing organizations into the era of cognitive abundance. We are a multidisciplinary team of AI strategists, applied scientists, forward deployment engineers, and solution architects, united by a mission to unlock the transformative power of AI. Operating with the agility of a startup incubator, we partner closely with both enterprises and startups to accelerate the path from innovation to production; delivering discrete business value and helping our customers build, deploy, and scale generative AI solutions with confidence.

Generative AIAI strategysolution architecturebusiness value

Weaviate

Advisor

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States

Redis

2 roles

EVP of Artificial Intelligence

May 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States

Established and led Redis's AI/ML division and getting the company to catch the Generative AI wave with the introduction of the Redis real-time inferencing and vector database. Managed entire division from engineering, product management, marketing, developer advocacy, GTM and partnerships. Secured Redis as one of the first vector databases supported on NVIDIA, Intel, OpenAI, Cohere, Azure ML, and Amazon Bedrock. Developed solutions for generative AI including RAG, long-term memory, and semantic caching for LLM based applications. Incepted and launched Redis VL - a critical client library to drive adoption of Redis's vector database and search technology.

AI/ML strategyproduct managementmarketing

Chief Business Development Officer

Jan 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States

As Chief Business Development Officer at Redis I contributed to the company's IPO readiness: developer and enterprise company rebranding, executive sponsorship with cloud and AI partners, and S-1 process. During this time I also developed the AI/ML strategy for Redis.

business developmentcloud partnerships

Kindering

Board Member

Apr 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States

Kindering provides education, therapy and support for children with disabilities or developmental delays; and their families from birth to 3 years of age.

Recursion ventures

Founding Partner

Apr 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States

Recursion Ventures is a boutique consulting firm based in Bellevue, Washington, partnering with entrepreneurs building amazing companies. We provide business consulting services (GTM strategy, business development, and commercialization of emerging technologies) to early stage startups.
Investments include:
fal.ai, LlamaIndex, Sidekick Browser (Perplexity), Opsverse.io (StackGen), Layer.ai, Argilla (Hugging Face)
Clients included:
Argilla (Hugging Face), Kyron Learning, Symbl.ai, Superlinked and Weaviate

business consultingGTM strategybusiness development

Microsoft

2 roles

GM & Head of Solution Architecture & Customer Engineering for Azure Data & AI

Feb 2020 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr

Responsible for global solution architecture and customer engineering strategy and execution for multibillion-dollar Azure Data & AI business (inclusive of Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Azure Synapse Analytics and Databricks, and Azure AI and ML services). Had functional responsibility for a global team across Microsoft's 14 subsidiaries, enabling customers across segments, industries and geographies for cloud data migration, data modernization and digital transformation initiatives. Formed emerging AI customer engineering team to co-architect and co-develop AI solutions with enterprise customers on Azure.

solution architecturecustomer engineering

General Manager, Customer Success of Intelligent Cloud

Mar 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Brought in to lead formation, strategy and execution of newly formed customer success unit for Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud which included Azure Apps & Infra and Data & AI. Focused on driving cloud adoption and revenue across Microsoft's strategic and enterprise customers. Established Azure Well-Architected program in collaboration with Azure engineering teams, and rolled out program globally to customers and partners.

cloud adoptioncustomer success

Amazon web services (aws)

5 roles

Director of Go-To-Market (GTM) AWS Platform

Promoted

Oct 2015 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Led the global business development and GTM team supporting AWS's entire platform including Infrastructure (compute, storage, networking), Database Services (Relational, NoSQL, Analytics), Developer Tools (CI/CD, Containers, Serverless), Emerging Tech (AI/ML, AR/VR), Enterprise Applications and Security.

business developmentGTM strategy