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At AWS, I worked with customers to adopt advanced machine learning solutions that strengthened their competitiveness. This included leveraging Amazon Forecast to improve demand planning accuracy by up to 15% and introducing computer vision technologies such as Amazon Lookout for Vision to reduce manufacturing defects and improve quality control. In addition, I also helped customers migrate from their homegrown ETL tool to AWS Glue. This migration to a serverless architecture allowed customers to focus on building their ETL pipeline rather than maintaining the infrastructure. Furthermore, the output from the ETL was loaded into their data warehouse (Amazon Redshift) and data lake. This created a strong data foundation for advanced analytics and positioning them for future AI-driven innovation.
In my role as Deputy CTO, I have been fortunate enough to build long-term relationships with our customers' CTO, CIO, CSO and other key business decision makers. This resulted in having solid and meaningful strategic technology conversations with them. Most recently, the conversations have been around the relevance of Riverbed as customers migrate to the cloud both in terms of IaaS and SaaS. The SaaS Accelerator project that I spearheaded was very relevant in these conversations. SaaS Accelerator, a service offering built on top of Azure and AWS, ensures an excellent end-user experience to SaaS applications such as O365 and Box regardless of the user location. In addition, SaaS Accelerator also provides a reduction in OPEX cost. While this reduction does vary between customers, our customers have reported a reduction of between 50%-70% or between $2M-$3M per year by deploying SaaS Accelerator. This reduction in OPEX cost also applies to IaaS as customers seek to reduce the ingress/egress data charges from the cloud providers. Here's a demo of the SaaS Accelerator product.
Promoted to manage a team of highly motivated individuals. This was my first exposure in being a people manager and it has taught me two things in particular: how to be a better communicator and how to be more empathetic.
Provided high-touch and technical guidance to customers with complex networks.
Maintained the banks network including the trading floor applications such as Fidessa, Bloomberg, and Reuters.