Technical Advisor to VP of Eng

Strategic Partner & Customer Engagement: Transformed relationships with high-growth AI startups into multi-year strategic partnerships, securing commitments across Perplexity, Fireworks, Deepgram, and others. Built executive-level technical credibility (CTO/VP Eng) by architecting solutions for complex challenges including large-scale model training, distributed inference systems handling millions of requests per second, and global voice AI infrastructure.

Product Influence & Cross-Org Collaboration: Drove critical AWS service improvements by identifying and escalating technical gaps to product leadership, resulting in a new API (Bi-directional Streaming Support) for AWS Sagemaker, EFA performance enhancements for MoE inference, and Bedrock latency optimizations. Partnered with Directors and Principal Engineers across SageMaker, Bedrock, EC2, and Annapurna teams to translate customer requirements into product roadmap priorities.

Field Enablement & Thought Leadership: Created and scaled comprehensive enablement programs adopted across global SUP GenAI SA organization (40+ SAs), including training curriculum on Amazon Learn, specialty builder frameworks for SageMaker HyperPod, and workload playbooks for model providers.

Technical Community & Partner Ecosystem: Led developer enablement initiatives including 3rd-party technical workshops (Anthropic, AMD, NVIDIA).

Business Impact & Growth:

Drove 33% YoY territory revenue growth from a $10M baseline with 80 High Priority customer accounts, achieving 100% of revenue and non-revenue goals.

Scaled strategic account from $1.2M to $4.3M ARR (258% growth) through strategic technical leadership, executive alignment, and successful implementation of cloud modernization initiatives

Technical Leadership & Innovation:

Led team of 3 to win first place among 848 participants in 2024 internal company hackathon, developing serverless semantic video search solution that garnered 88+ views and 18+ forks.

Presented "Securing and Scaling Multi-Tenant Applications" at AWS On Air Startups Livestream, demonstrating architectural best practices to global startup audience

Developed and open-sourced comprehensive GenAI patient matching solution for clinical trials, including production-ready Jupyter notebooks with batch inference capabilities

Spearheaded successful GenAI production deployments for healthcare startups implementing solutions from proof-of-concept to scale in a variety of use-cases from chatbots, summarization, Q+A, and others.

Authored high-impact technical content including ML blog post (750+ unique views) and hands-on workshops for healthcare AI services

Cross-functional Excellence:

Served as Database and Networking specialist across territories, resolving critical escalations for customers including complex Aurora database migrations and AWS Network Firewall implementations

Release Manager for the new major version of Aurora MySQL compatible with MySQL 8.0 coordinating delivery across 30+ feature teams around the world.

Starting, driving, and shipping of cross-functional operational and process improvements for a 150+ person organization.

Influencing development priorities by leveraging developer background to estimate resourcing and quantifying customer impact with data.

Continuous delivery of version currency with Aurora MySQL achieving parity of community MySQL versions within 2 quarters.

Deprecated older releases including the removal of 99 out of 108 total engine versions equating to a 92% improvement in fleet version consistency and higher average availability for customers.

Increased product transparency by implementing a review process to raise the release notes quality.