Lee Assam — CEO

Lee Assam is a senior technology executive and AWS ecosystem leader recognized for building high-impact partner strategies, shaping cloud GTM, and translating advanced AI into enterprise business outcomes. Across more than a decade in cloud and 25+ years in tech, Lee has combined deep technical fluency with board-level storytelling to help Fortune-scale customers and consulting partners modernize on AWS, adopt AI, and unlock durable revenue growth. A prolific educator and inventor, Lee served as an Adjunct Professor at multiple universities and online course creator on platforms like LinkedIn Learning and holds multiple patents, reflecting a career at the intersection of engineering rigor, partner influence, and customer obsession. As a senior Partner Solutions Architect leader at Amazon Web Services, Lee guided consulting partners and ISVs working alongside AWS customers through migrations, modernization, and AI-driven transformation on AWS. He built repeatable playbooks for executive alignment, co-selling, and solution incubation that expanded partner pipeline, improved attach of strategic services, and accelerated time to value for joint customers. Drawing on hands-on experience with GenAI, Agentic AI, and applied LLM patterns, Lee helped partners stand up credible GenAI offerings, harden them for security and scale, and land them inside complex enterprise programs. Beyond AWS, Lee is a trusted advisor to mid-market systems integrators and software companies building on AWS and transacting through AWS Marketplace. He has coached leadership teams on pricing and packaging, field enablement, partner-ready reference architectures, and alliance governance, while mentoring technical sellers and solution leaders to improve win rates in multi-stakeholder deals. Lee’s communication style is clear and pragmatic, balancing executive narrative with measurable operating mechanisms. Before AWS, Lee spent more than 20 years serving industries like Financial Services and Insurance, Public Sector, and Startups and in executive roles. He also designs hands-on learning experiences on platforms like LinkedIn Learning covering topics such as GenAI and Agentic AI systems, solutions architecture, cloud adoption modernization, and migration to public cloud best practices.These educator and author roles complement his executive coaching and communication with C-Suite executives on technology to foster a culture of innovation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Cloud Computing expert with a focus on AI integration and partner strategies.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Experience: 25 yrs 4 mos

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)
Financial Services

Career Highlights

Expert in AI-driven cloud modernization strategies.
Prolific educator with multiple patents and courses.
Strong track record in driving revenue growth for partners.

Work Experience

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Principal Customer Solutions Leader - North America - FinTech (4 mos)

Head of Partner Solutions Architecture and Generative AI - North America - SMB and Greenfield (2 yrs 1 mo)

Principal Customer Solutions Manager - North America - SMB (8 mos)

Senior Customer Solutions Manager - North America - SMB (2 yrs 3 mos)

State Farm ®

Senior Architecture Manager (1 yr 10 mos)

Solution Architect (4 yrs)

LinkedIn Learning Instructor (1 yr 5 mos)

Udemy

Udemy Online Instructor (3 yrs 11 mos)

COUNTRY Financial®

Application Development Specialist (10 mos)

Senior Application Developer (3 yrs 5 mos)

Application Developer (2 yrs 6 mos)

Illinois Wesleyan University

Adjunct Lecturer (1 yr 4 mos)

Illinois State University

Adjunct Lecturer (2 yrs 3 mos)

Treadstone Web Services

Owner and Chief Software Architect (5 yrs 11 mos)

Heartland Community College

Senior Web Programmer (3 yrs)

Illinois State University

Graduate Assistant (1 yr 5 mos)

Water and Sewerage Authority of Trinidad and Tobago

Senior IT Officer (2 yrs)

Software Technologies Limited

Software Developer (1 yr)

Education

Master of Science (MSc) at Illinois State University

Bachelor of Science (BSc) at University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus

Lee Assam

CEO

Atlanta, Georgia, United States25 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in AI-driven cloud modernization strategies.
Prolific educator with multiple patents and courses.
Strong track record in driving revenue growth for partners.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Cloud Computing expert with a focus on AI integration and partner strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Financial Services

Other Skills

FinTechGenerative AIDeep LearningWeb DevelopmentjQueryJavaScriptPHPJavaHTML5jQuery MobileMySQLAdvanced CSSWeb ServicesWeb DesignApache

About

Experience

25 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

4 roles

Principal Customer Solutions Leader - North America - FinTech

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos

Collaborating with FinTech and Financial Services customers to drive modernization initiatives on AWS.
Focusing on integrating AI and Generative AI technologies to enhance customer capabilities.
Providing strategic guidance and support to clients, ensuring successful implementation of cloud and AI solutions.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Financial ServicesFinTech

Head of Partner Solutions Architecture and Generative AI - North America - SMB and Greenfield

Promoted

Dec 2023 – Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Leading Partner Sales Solution Architects for US SMB and Greenfield Segments for North America at AWS to accelerate customer cloud journeys with AWS Partners, collaborating with Field Sales, and Field Solution Architects
Leading Generative AI strategy for Partner Sales Solution Architects for entire US
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize Partner Sales Solution Architect Organization, resulting in increased efficiency and revenue growth.
Building partner relationships and increasing partner attach rates on AWS opportunities
Incubating the next set of customers to AWS by leveraging SI/GSIs, ISVs and partner solutions and accelerators

Principal Customer Solutions Manager - North America - SMB

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Dec 2023 · 8 mos

Led strategic partners in executing best practices for accelerating 1000+ cloud migrations, resulting in successful migration and modernization of AWS workloads for Small to Midsize Business customers.
Collaborated with partners to define strategic GTM approaches, driving $500M business growth and optimizing customer digital transformation.
Provided C-Suite Executive Level engagement to top AWS SMB Partners and optics to ensure alignment with AWS services and solutions for customer success.
Created a series of educational videos to onboard customers and partners to the Migration Acceleration Program at AWS. These videos streamlined partner and customer onboarding for thousands of customers and hundreds of partners
Managed over 100+ concurrent partner-led AWS migrations by building automation tooling for optics and implementing best practices at partners for discovery and migration kickoff
Developed AI-powered dashboards to proactively determine at-risk migrations informing Customer Success Managers on prescriptive actions to take to get migrations back on track. This was used to track 10,000 + migrations

Senior Customer Solutions Manager - North America - SMB

Jan 2021 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Managed and led AWS cloud adoption journeys for companies to leverage elasticity and scalability of the Cloud for compute and storage workloads.
Helped drive innovation and new opportunities utilizing AWS Public Cloud, managing large scale migration and modernization initiatives.
Assisted companies in reducing costs, driving efficiency, and innovating faster using AI/ML and insights from analytics and machine learning.

State farm ®

2 roles

Senior Architecture Manager

Mar 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

Led Solution Architect and Engineering teams to deliver the architecture runway for the migration and consumption of Big Data on AWS Infrastructure via Real Time and Batch Ingestion - 10's of Petabytes of data monthly
Established Claims Data Lake and Feature Store for Machine Learning and Analytics throughout the organization
Led internal team of Solution Architects, Engineers and external consultants from SIs to establish a claims data lake and ML pipeline strategy for the entire organization processing over 75,000 claims with meta daily

Solution Architect

Mar 2015 – Mar 2019 · 4 yrs

Led agile teams to design and implement large scale chatbot-based solutions for innovative self-service capabilities.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive the development of virtual assistant technologies.
Implemented solutions at State Farm ® in Bloomington, Illinois to enhance customer experience and drive business growth.

LinkedIn Learning Instructor

Aug 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Carpinteria, California, United States

Developed 6 professional high quality production courses in collaboration with LinkedIn Learning on the platform:
Learning Amazon Bedrock
Building Applications with Amazon Bedrock
Learning to Build Alexa Skills
Learning to Build Advanced Alexa Skills
Learning Google DialogFlow
Learning Google IoT Core
Courses collectively have millions of views with over 500,000 students learning from my content.

Udemy

Udemy Online Instructor

Jan 2017 – Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos · United States

Country financial®

3 roles

Application Development Specialist

May 2014 – Mar 2015 · 10 mos

Developed responsive Web Applications using PHP, jQuery, HTML 5, and CSS 3 for enterprise system integration.
Built APIs and Web Services to enhance system functionality and streamline backend processing

Senior Application Developer

Dec 2010 – May 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Designed and developed Agent facing Web applications for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and PHP technologies.
Spearheaded the development and implementation of the company's first native iOS application.
Supported and maintained the applications to ensure seamless user experience.

Application Developer

Jun 2008 – Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Developed a wide range of Web applications to support financial representative business oriented tasks

Illinois wesleyan university

Adjunct Lecturer

Aug 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Taught CS 127 Introduction to Computer Science and CS 253 Software Development at Illinois Wesleyan University.
Advised on computer science curriculum for the Computer Science Dept.
Developed engaging lesson plans to enhance student learning outcomes.
Collaborated with colleagues to create innovative teaching strategies

Illinois state university

Adjunct Lecturer

Jan 2012 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Normal, IL

Taught TEC 284 - Technical Computer Applications and TEC 319 - Graphical Software Interfaces at Illinois State University.
Developed engaging curriculum to enhance students' technical skills and understanding of graphical software interfaces.
Implemented innovative teaching methods to create an interactive learning environment for students.
Received positive feedback from students for my engaging and informative teaching style.

Treadstone web services

Owner and Chief Software Architect

Jan 2009 – Dec 2014 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Managed a team of developers to create custom web applications for small businesses and organizations in the Bloomington/Normal, Illinois area.
Developed innovative website designs tailored to meet the unique needs of startups and local businesses.
Implemented SEO strategies to improve online visibility and drive traffic to client websites.

Heartland community college

Senior Web Programmer

Jun 2005 – Jun 2008 · 3 yrs

Designed and developed Web applications for Heartland Community College using Java, JSPs, and Struts.
Created intranet web-based applications to support faculty with SQL Server databases.
Implemented innovative solutions to enhance user experience and streamline processes.

Illinois state university

Graduate Assistant

Dec 2003 – May 2005 · 1 yr 5 mos

Developed software for university web initiatives, enhancing user experience.
Configured laptops and docking stations for efficient use by university personnel.
Collaborated with team members to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.

Water and sewerage authority of trinidad and tobago

Senior IT Officer

Jul 2001 – Jul 2003 · 2 yrs · Farm Rd St Joseph, Trinidad West Indies

Developed and implemented the company's website and intranet using PHP and ColdFusion technologies.
Responsible for the support and implementation roadmap of the company's centralized Customer Information System.

Software technologies limited

Software Developer

Jun 2000 – Jun 2001 · 1 yr · Trinidad and Tobago

Developed web application modules for a HR and Payroll commercial software application using web and ColdFusion technologies.
Supported over 1 million customers and 100,00 employees with these systems.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features.
Conducted regular testing and debugging to maintain system efficiency.