# Khursheed Hassan > AI & Cloud Savings | Founder @Cloudidr | Product Management Leader | ex-AWS EC2 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/khursheed Building intelligent control plane for AI infrastructure. Ex-AWS EC2 product management leadership - led Capacity Products ($300M+ ARR, 115% YoY growth). Career spent taking complex technical products from 0-to-1: founded Eonsil (sold tech to Microsoft & Seagate), led and built Western Digital’s Enterprise NVMe (from zero to $220M revenue). I specialize in: - Infrastructure product definition & strategy (LLM, Cloud, GPU, storage, AI workloads) - Building and scaling cross-functional teams - 0-to-1 product development in competitive technical markets I also selectively advise AI infrastructure startups and investment firms on cloud architecture and modern AI workload economics. Writing about operational leadership at TheQuietLeadership.com. ## Work Experience ### Chief Product & Technology Officer, Founder, CEO @ Cloudidr Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Building the AI infrastructure platform with intelligence - visibility and optimization from APIs to GPUs. We help AI companies cut infrastructure costs up to 90%+: ∙LLM Ops: Real-time cost visibility across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini with budget enforcement and intelligent routing ∙Managed Inference: route to Cloudidr hosted open source models savings close to 90% ∙GPU : GPUs 40% savings through proprietary technologies, provisioned directly in customer accounts ### Head of Storage & Memory / EC2 Capacity Product Management @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | United States Headed the roadmap and launch of customer-facing capacity management products for EC2 compute service. Provided strategic guidance to major cloud clients, enabling them to trade-off between cost, availability, and capacity constraints on AWS. In my prior role as Head of Storage Devices, I directed the AWS infrastructure technical team in shaping the multi-year roadmap and product management for HDDs, SSDs, NAND, Tape, and DRAM, overseeing qualifications and advancements. ### Sr. Director Corporate Strategy, QA, Systems, Product Lead @ Western Digital Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area As a strategy technology leader, I contributed to the product and technology strategies for storage business units, encompassing HDDs, SSDs, and Systems ($20B revenue company). I conducted diligence for strategic investments, eco-system development, and partnerships. Before that, I was responsible for quality assurance for over 20 HDD product lines, generating $4 billion in annual revenue. I revitalized international teams across multiple global design and manufacturing sites. Additionally, I led system engineering and product management initiatives for enterprise SAS and NVMe SSDs business unit with $1 billion in revenue. Notably, I started the development from the ground up, and led the successful design of WD's inaugural NVMe enterprise/cloud SSD portfolio, which grossed 0 to $200 million within 2 years of launch and won the “Editors Choice Award”. ### System on chip @ Intel Corporation Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Irvine, California, United States Industry first 3D cross point controller which used SCM / Phase change memory. ### Founder, CEO & Chief Product Officer @ Eonsil Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 | Austin, TX I conceived and established a groundbreaking PCIe single-controller NVMCHI/NVMe SSD technology startup. I assembled a top-tier engineering and management team, spanning ASIC, hardware, software, and firmware expertise across global locations. I raised investment, spearheaded business development efforts, forged strategic alliances, secured pivotal design wins, and successfully licensed our cutting-edge technology to Tier-1 data center and defense clients. ### Chip Lead - Personal Area Network @ Alereon Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 Multiple ASIC designed for wireless USB. ### Team Lead - Cellular Technologies @ NXP acquires Freescale Semiconductor Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 | Austin, Texas Area ### System-on-Chip Design Engineer @ Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company) Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 | Austin, Texas, United States ## Education ### PhD (Candidate) in Wireless Communications The University of Texas at Austin ### ELP University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business ### UEX in FInance Texas McCombs School of Business ### MS in Wireless Communications Texas A&M University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/khursheedhassan --- Source: https://flows.cv/khursheed JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/khursheed/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05