Tarik Makota
Sr. Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolTarik Makota is a Sr. Principal Solutions Architect based in the New York City area with eight years in senior cloud and architecture roles and a long history of designing enterprise-grade systems. He currently leads strategic solutions at AWS, having progressed through Principal and Partner Solutions Architect roles after serving as Chief Data Officer for AIG. Tarik combines deep financial services experience from Bank of America—where he oversaw architecture for loan origination and a 150+ application portfolio—with cloud-native modernization and ISV partner strategies. He specializes in translating complex business requirements into pragmatic, scalable architectures that modernize legacy platforms and accelerate cloud adoption. Colleagues describe him as both a hands-on technologist and an organizational catalyst who elevates engineering practices and drives adoption of emerging patterns. His background in software development and management (MS, RIT) underpins a pragmatic approach to bridging technical strategy and delivery.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS Software Development & Mgmnt, MS Software Development & Mgmnt at Rochester Institute of TechnologyB.S. Computer Science Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science Computer Science at Brooklyn College
Github Skills (16)
cloudwatch8
splunk7
alibabacloud6
region6
aws5
cdr5
lambda5
aws-lambda5
serverless4
aws-serverless4
data-processing4
serverless-framework4
aws-sam3
serverless-applications3
rds3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tmakota/amazon-kinesis-firehose-cloudwatch-logs-processor
Nov 2017 - May 2018
For processing data sent to Firehose by Cloudwatch Logs subscription filters.
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
cdrfiltersdata-processingcloudwatchsubscription
PacktPublishing/Streaming-Data-Solutions-with-Amazon-Kinesis
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:26 commits, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
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