Shaman S is a senior sales leader with over 20 years of experience scaling strategic partnerships and driving revenue growth across cloud, AI/ML, and enterprise technology. Currently at AWS, he leads a high-performing team for a top strategic partner, delivering 37% CAGR and securing multi-year enterprise agreements through co-selling and partner strategy. His background spans leadership roles at Arista, Cisco, T-Mobile and Nortel where he repeatedly turned complex technical offerings into transformational, multi-million-dollar deals and new business models. He combines technical fluency (MS in Electrical Engineering and Engineering Management) with commercial rigor—building GTM plays, C-suite relationships, and operational discipline to translate strategy into measurable outcomes. An atypical sales technologist, he also contributes to open-source game development (Zero-K) as a backend/Lua script contributor, signaling hands-on problem solving and a penchant for collaborative engineering. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he thrives at the intersection of technology and business, focused on scaling innovation in AI and cloud.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University
Open source RTS game running on the Spring/Recoil engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Lua Scripting
Contributions:77 commits, 29 PRs, 221 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Shaman primarily contributed to the game's logic and user interface by modifying Lua scripts. They fixed bugs related to radar coverage and the in-game ignore feature. The user added an in-game ignore list and share-mode functionality, including setting up mod options. They also addressed localization and game mechanics by updating descriptions in different languages and adjusting unit behaviors.
Contributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 5 branches in 22 days
widgetzeromachine-learningexpansionzero-k
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Shaman S - Senior Sales Leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS)