Phani Kishore is a seasoned engineering leader with ~20 years building enterprise products and web-scale SaaS platforms and over a decade of experience founding teams and modernizing complex legacy systems. Currently a Senior SDM at AWS, he leads the Control Plane engineering org for OpenSearch service, after senior leadership roles at GitHub AE and Azure Developer Services. He combines hands-on distributed systems design with practical cloud migration expertise across Azure and GCP, and a track record of taking business ideas from concept to production. Phani has repeatedly driven Agile and DevOps adoption while aligning product and technology vision to customer needs—most notably leading Conversational AI SaaS and security intelligence platforms earlier in his career. Comfortable managing geographically distributed cross-functional teams, he blends strategic leadership with active technical judgment. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs deep platform instincts with a knack for turning architectural complexity into scalable, operable services.
6 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
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Phani Kishore - Sr SDM at Amazon Web Services (AWS)