Vivek Velso

❑ 28+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Cloud Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Solutions on AWS, Azure, GCP, and Informatica Cloud, with a focus on AWS Cloud. Proven track record in delivering successful projects for clients in various industries, as a Field CTO, Cloud Architect, Data Architect, Cloud Engineering Lead, and Senior Data Engineer. Led large teams of over 100 in offshore models, consistently striving for customer obsession and delivering results.

❑ Extensive experience with VLDBs (100 TB+, 500 Billion+ rows) and appliance products (Oracle Exadata, IBM Netezza, Greenplum, Teradata), Graph Databases (Neo4j), Petabyte-scale NoSQL (DynamoDB), and CDWs (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Azure Synapse). Demonstrated ownership, always thinking long-term and innovating.

❑ Proven expertise in architecting end-to-end on-premise and Cloud Data Warehouse & AI/ML solutions for Banking and Finance, Mortgage, Airlines, Insurance, Marketing, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, MedTech, Life Sciences, Retail, Consulting, Startups. Achieving operational excellence and working with a sense of urgency.

❑ Skilled in IBM-BDW, Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, MLOps, AIOps, SDLC, TOGAF, Informatica Cloud Velocity methodologies. Adopting a culture of invention and thinking big.

❑ AWS AI Hero, Former AWS Community Builder (AI Engineering), AWS Ambassador, 16x AWS Certified (ML/Data/Security/Networking Specialty & Professional Level), All-Star Award AWS Gold Jacket, AWS IQ Community Expert, 4x AWS Certification Subject Matter Expert (SME), AWS Customer Council/AWS Research Member, CNCF Kubestronaut (5x Kubernetes), 5x Azure Certified on AI/ML and Data Services. Continuously learning and improving, and embracing a bias for action.

❑ Strong leadership, management & organization skills. Excellent team player, fostering a culture of ownership, and being right, a lot.