Principal Solution architect

Eyal Shacham

Cloud Strategy Leader Senior Solutions Architect

Email: *******@******.*** Phone: 314-***-**** Location: Houston, TX

Summary

I’m a strategic technology leader with 25+ years of experience designing and delivering technical solutions with positive impact across cloud architecture, data engineering, AI, and software development. I’m recognized as a trusted adviser by clients and colleagues alike, I excel as a technical generalist, who reliably gets the job done. I enjoy, helping organizations modernize and scale by transforming their digital footprint, achieving sustainable growth and innovation.

Core Competencies

Cloud Architecture & Migration: Certified expertise in AWS, cloud-native solutions, and migration strategies. Skilled in designing hybrid cloud architectures, integrating on-premises workloads with cloud-native services for seamless interoperability.

Proficient with Serverless computing, Containerization (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes), Message Brokers Queues (RabbitMQ) and Streaming (AWS Kinesis), and Microservices API. Experienced with Event-Driven and Domain Driven Design.

AI & Machine Learning: Proficient in GenAI applications, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Chats, and Forecasting models. Skilled in MLOps data pipeline, fine-tuning models, data drift detections and ML hosting. Knowledgeable in statistical analysis using Python frameworks.

Full-Stack (Backend and Front-End) development: Proficient in Python, C# (MVC, MVVM), JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks for web and native interfaces (React, Angular, Redux, Ionic).

Experienced with Architectural Diagrams (UML).

DevOps: Experienced in CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and security best practices. Skilled in CDK, CloudFormation, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible and Jenkins. Familiar with Security Static and Dynamic scans.

Data Engineering & Analytics: Experiences with Data Ingestion pipeline architecture, ETL/ELT workflows (AWS Glue). Proficient in SQL query optimization, cloud Data Lakes (S3) Warehousing (AWS Redshift, Athena), and Distributed Big Data processing (Apache Spark). Experience in large-scale data replication and distributed caching strategies using AWS ElasticCache (Redis).

Governance, Compliance and Cost Optimization: Familiar with cloud Governance and Compliance strategies. Experienced with AWS Well-Architected Framework and Cost reduction, optimization and budgeting.

Observability, APM: Experience with observability and performance monitoring using AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray (Tracing), Datadog, Prometheus and Grafana, building dashboards for SLA/SLO.

Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM), Authentication & Authorization protocols (OAuth, SAML), and role based and privileged access control.

Cross-Industry Experience: Knowledgeable in Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, and Insurance.

Soft Skills

Leadership & Collaboration: Experienced in mentoring diverse teams, fostering collaboration.

Strategic Thinking: Expertise in translating business objectives into actionable technical strategies, ensuring long-term scalability and alignment with market trends.

Communication & Problem Solving: Skilled in simplifying complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, while identifying optimization opportunities across domains.

Adaptability & Agility: Comfortable navigating fast-changing environments, managing ambiguity, and leading teams through transitions with resilience and flexibility.

Growth Mindset & Curiosity: Continuously seeks learning opportunities, explores emerging technologies, and embraces challenges as opportunities for growth.

Ownership & Accountability: Takes initiative, drives projects to completion, and ensures high-quality execution with strong personal accountability.

Customer-Focused Approach: Deeply invested in understanding customer needs, and delivering solutions that drive business value and long-term success.

Self-Starter & Execution-Oriented: Proactive in identifying challenges and solutions, with a strong get-things-done mentality to achieve measurable results.

Professional Experience

Amazon Feb 2022 – Feb 2025

Cloud Architect

Led teams of AWS cloud engineers and client’s developers, while hands-on, in a fast-paced, high-impact consulting role, working with multiple enterprise clients in digital transformation and cloud migrations. Reduced total cost of ownership and improved workloads performance, and data quality.

Served as a trusted cloud advisor and consultant in the professional services organization for enterprise clients, guiding their large-scale cloud transformation strategies through architectural reviews, pre-sales engagements, and hands-on POCs. Conducted workshops to potential and existing clients. Developed architecture documentation and cloud adoption roadmaps, mapping customer journeys from on-prem to the cloud. Collaborated with business product owners to perform deep discovery sessions and extract business requirements. Facilitated the Scrum process, helping transforming the client from waterfall to agile culture.

Designed, implemented, deployed and optimized serverless, event driven large-scale data ingestion pipeline, for a Pharmaceutical front company using AWS Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, Glue, Jupyter notebooks, Apache Spark (PySpark), and Athena for structured and semi-structured data. The solution, included pipeline monitoring, support playbook/runbooks documentation, and monthly and annual cost projections to optimize cloud spend. Deployed using Azure DevOps pipeline, with CDK in Python.

Designed, implemented, and deployed eCare subscriptions backend API and Frontend UI for Pharmaceutical front company using AWS API Gateway, Lambda (C#), and React.

Designed, implemented, and deployed Formulary APIs for Pharmaceutical front company integrating on-premises workloads to the cloud using AWS API Gateway, Lambda (C#)

Designed, implemented, and deployed End to End large scale Data Validation solution for Pharmaceutical front company.

Developed scalable call center solutions using Amazon Connect, including multilingual bot and live chat, automating provisioning to reduce setup time from days to minutes. Used AWS Comprehend, Translate. Deployed using CDK. Used Python and JavaScript.

Led workshop on Generative AI prompt engineering, enabling client teams to optimize LLM-based solutions for customer interactions and automation.

Publications:

oPublished application reference patterns for complex data transformations using Apache Spark and for ingesting and maintaining partitioned historical data using AWS Glue, enabling scalable, best-practice implementations for enterprise clients.

oAI-powered forecasting model demonstrating feasibility for variable size datasets. Published as open-source and a Blog for best practices of forecasting in constrained datasets.

POCs and Internal applications development:

oStreaming analytics processing using Textract and S3. Deployed with Terraform.

oResearched Snowflake, and Redshift for Datawarehouse solutions.

oImage-based catalog description extraction, enabling flexible product description generation using AWS Bedrock, S3, and React.

oLarge language Model evaluation user interface and API, using React and Python.

oLive chat web app, using React, integrated with Generative AI backend.

oBlog generation app leveraging Generative AI Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using AWS Bedrock, Streamlit, ECS, and Open Search deployed using CDK (Python)

Emerson Electric Feb 2018 – Feb 2022

Senior Software Engineer

Designed, developed, deployed and supported a wireless smart thermostat IoT device (Sensi) cloud backend application and business web user interfaces.

Sustaining 20% YOY user base growth, leveraging custom developed IaC (using Ansible and Jenkins), microservices container orchestration (AWS ECS), API Gateway, RabbitMQ, and AWS IoT Core to enhance scalability and operational efficiency. Designed and optimized high-throughput, low-latency cloud architectures for large-scale data processing and transaction-heavy workloads. Application coded with JavaScript/Typescript, tested with Jest, and Mocha

Developed real-time monitoring, observabilities and alerting solutions using APM tools (Datadog and AWS CloudWatch), improving incident response and system observability across IoT devices and cloud services. Architected failover strategies for real-time mission critical (24X7 on-call) workloads and supported globally distributed, high-volume applications requiring near-zero downtime.

Designed and implemented scalable IoT data pipelines, improving near real-time sensor data ingestion and analytics for regulatory compliance and system monitoring. Optimized performance of large-scale data pipelines applications (including SQL queries) for IoT analytics, reducing query execution time and improving reporting efficiency. Designed sand implemented AWS Athena-based querying strategies to analyze and process sensor data efficiently, reducing cloud storage costs and enhancing data insights.

Mentored junior engineers on data modeling and cloud best practices; reviewed code and provided architectural guidance.

Collaborated with energy sector partners to develop solutions supporting Energy Star certification and Demand Response programs, driving sustainability and energy efficiency initiatives.

Integrated enterprise applications and SaaS platforms (Salesforce) with cloud-native architectures, ensuring seamless interoperability between cloud services and enterprise ecosystems.

Ultralinq Healthcare Apr 2016 – Jan 2018

Senior Software Engineer

Led the development and launch of an ultrasound machine UI (C#, WPF, MVVM), integrating with OEM firmware and optimizing user workflows for ultrasound protocols for processing DICOM files.

Accelerated product rollout to user testing within 6 months, leading a small team and ensuring compliance with medical imaging standards.

Designed and implemented a workflow engine, enabling exam-specific image acquisition, measurements, and calculations.

Established Test-Driven Development (TDD) and CI/CD pipelines, improving code quality, deployment efficiency, and team productivity.

Utilized Team Foundation Services and managed AWS-hosted virtual machines for web services and disaster recovery.

Mentored developers, set Software Development Life Cycle standards, and contributed to defining company-wide software development SOPs.

Reinsurance Group of America Jul 2015 – Mar 2016

Senior Application Developer

Optimized actuarial prediction models, reducing runtime from days to hours, significantly accelerating business insights and decision-making.

Enhanced platform stability and performance, identifying and resolving key bottlenecks to ensure high system availability.

Led critical system enhancements using C#, JavaScript, and RDBMS, improving functionality and scalability.

Collaborated with stakeholders and project teams, driving Agile-based development, requirement analysis, and solution design.

Developed operational support playbooks, improving troubleshooting efficiency and team knowledge retention.

Biomedical Systems Oct 2013 – Jun 2015

Senior Application Developer

Developed and optimized clinical trial applications, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and improving data integrity.

Enhanced data collection and reporting systems, reducing processing times by 20% and streamlining workflows.

Designed and implemented a SharePoint-based ECG processing workflow, improving efficiency in clinical data management.

Conducted extensive system analysis and performance tuning, ensuring reliability and scalability.

Mentored junior developers in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SharePoint, fostering team growth and technical expertise.

Modular Process Control Jul 2013 – Aug 2013

Applications Development Manager

Partnered with executive stakeholders to define cloud strategy roadmaps, aligning technology adoption with business goals. Developed outcome-driven technical plans to accelerate cloud migration while ensuring regulatory compliance and cost optimization.

Led product enhancements for a cloud-based energy conservation system, optimizing process flow visualization and dashboard analytics.

Researched and integrated new technologies, improving online diagramming of manufacturing workflows and energy data insights.

Managed and mentored a team of analysts, while contributing hands-on to ASP.NET/C#, JavaScript, and SQL Server development.

Midwest Employers Casualty Company Jun 2004 – Jun 2013

Applications Developer and Manager

Oversaw end-to-end technical execution projects up to $1M, managing cross-functional teams of up to 10 developers in custom software development, web applications, and product implementation.

Stabilized and modernized core underwriting, policy, and billing systems, mentoring teams in Oracle PL/SQL, PowerBuilder, and C#, while ensuring performance and scalability, balancing technical feasibility with budget constraints.

Optimized data analytics and business intelligence by implementing OLAP data-marts, automated financial reporting, and enterprise BI solutions using SSAS, SSRS, and SharePoint.

Hands on enhancements in claims and reserves processing efficiency through T-SQL and C# automation, improving data quality and processing speed.

Implemented IT process improvements, including automated builds, code migrations, enterprise reporting, and capacity planning.

Amdocs Aug 1995 – May 2004

Software Developer and Leader

Started as a developer in the infrastructure and framework team, delivering custom tools to other dev team in the organization. Worked up to become a team leader developer.

Led and managed teams of up to 20 developers, overseeing the Error Management System (EMS) enhancements, implementations, and customizations for global telecommunications clients.

Contributed to RFP responses, mapping technical solutions to customer requirements.

Drove EMS sales and adoption, securing multiple clients, expanding the company’s client base, and delivering tailored solutions.

Managed product releases and international development teams, ensuring smooth SDLC processes and client satisfaction.

Supported Amdocs billing products (RBMS, MAF, Bill Formatter) and developed enterprise frameworks to enhance system interoperability.

Education

Ben Gurion University Ba-Negev, Israel

Bachelor of Mathematics and Computer Science (B.A.Sc.)

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Machine Learning Specialty

AWS Certified Developer

AWS AI Practitioner

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