Strategic Cloud and AI Leader

Amit Mahendrakumar Gupta

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Strategic Cloud and AI Leader with 21+ years of experience driving enterprise cloud modernization, leading high-performing architecture teams, and shaping cloud strategy across global organizations. Proven success in building and scaling Cloud Centers of Excellence (CCoE), governing multi-cloud environments, and delivering business-aligned cloud roadmaps that optimize cost, strengthen security, and accelerate digital transformation. CORE COMPETENCIES

Leadership & Management: Cloud Practice Leadership, People Management, Mentoring, Cross-functional Team Leadership.

Stakeholder & Client Relations: C-suite Advisory, Business–IT Alignment, Executive Communication, Pre-sales & Solutioning.

Strategic & Business Skills: Cloud Strategy, IT Modernization, Budgeting, Portfolio Governance, P&L; Influence.

Cloud, AI & Architecture: Multi-cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP), Enterprise Architecture, AI/ML, GenAI.

DevOps & Automation: Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Observability. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Amdocs — Solution Architect 2022–Present

Leadership & Strategy

Acted as cloud strategy lead for enterprise modernization programs, influencing technology direction, migration planning, and cloud governance for business-critical platforms. Collaborated with VP-level stakeholders to define multi-year cloud and AI adoption strategies aligned with business outcomes and operational KPIs. Mentored and coached a team of 8 cloud engineers and architects, building capability in security, architecture, and automation.

Cloud Architecture & Delivery

Designed 15+ enterprise cloud architectures aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework, improving operational excellence, uptime (99.99%), and reducing infrastructure cost by 40%. Led cloud migration of 20+ legacy workloads to AWS, improving deployment frequency from monthly to daily releases.

Spearheaded Generative AI implementations using Bedrock & SageMaker, cutting manual data processing by 60%.

Security & Governance

Established cloud security posture across accounts using IAM, KMS, AWS Config & Security Hub, enabling SOC 2 Type II compliance.

Implemented standardized IaC (Terraform) to manage 500+ AWS resources, reducing provisioning timelines from 5 days to 2 hours.

Business Impact

Drove performance optimization and analytics modernization using S3 + Athena, reducing query costs by 50%.

Achieved RTO of 15 minutes and RPO of 4 hours through enterprise DR planning. CitiusTech — Senior Technical Specialist 2019–2022 Leadership & Stakeholder Management

Provided architectural oversight for cloud transformation initiatives for healthcare and regulated workloads.

Influenced technology decisions for 10+ business units through reusable Terraform modules and best practices.

Cloud Transformation

Defined and implemented cloud security frameworks (HIPAA, PCI-DSS) ensuring 100% audit compliance.

Architected multi-region DR strategies ensuring business continuity for mission-critical workloads. Business Value

Delivered $2.5M annual savings through cloud cost governance and RIs/spot optimization. Mastek — Associate Solution Architect 2015–2019

Cloud Platform Leadership

Led cloud platform modernization using containerized microservices (ECS/EKS). Established CI/CD automation improving deployment velocity for 25+ applications. Operational Improvements

Implemented performance observability and APM tooling, reducing MTTR by 40%. TCS — Assistant Consultant 2011–2015

Led development teams for enterprise-grade solutions and participated in architecture governance forums.

NSEIT, Zensar, Hexaware, Siemens, Financial Technologies Various Engineering & Development Roles (2004–2011) Spanning software development, system engineering, client coordination, and technical leadership foundations. EDUCATION

PG Diploma in Advanced Computing — CDAC MET

Bachelor of Engineering — Electronics & Instrumentation — IET DAVV CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Solutions Architect, AZ-900, Oracle OCI GenAI, Oracle AI Vector Search. LANGUAGES

English (C2), Hindi (Native)

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