Summary
Mani Chandrasekaran is a seasoned enterprise technologist and Field CTO at AWS for India and South Asia, with 25+ years of hands-on experience guiding C‑level leaders through cloud migrations, AI-driven product innovation, and resilience-focused application transformations. He blends strategic vision with practitioner skills—mentoring solution architects, serving as CTO‑in‑Residence, and driving GenAI to production using agentic approaches and AI-driven development tools like Kiro and Claude Code. Mani’s depth spans containers and cloud native architectures, multi‑cloud strategies, security and governance, and a rare breadth of certifications across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes and NVIDIA. He has led high‑performing engineering, presales and product teams for ISVs, enterprises and startups across India, APJ and the US, and contributes governance insight as an IICA-registered Independent Director. An early technologist with roots in embedded and middleware systems, he combines pragmatic engineering instincts with executive-level credibility to turn emerging AI and cloud trends into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Science, First Rank in State, Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Science, First Rank in State at Sri Jayachamarajendra (Govt.) Polytechnic - SJP
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Executive General Management Program, Management, Corporate Strategy, OR, Executive General Management Program, Management, Corporate Strategy, OR at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
BE, Electronics, First Class, BE, Electronics, First Class at University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE)
Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, English