Chintan J Desai

About Chintan J Desai

A strategic Technology and Program Management leader with 20 years of experience running large, complex programs across global environments. I specialize in building teams, orchestrating cross-functional execution and making decisions in high-ambiguity situations. My background spans hyper-scale cloud, financial and ISP infrastructure and large enterprise services with close partnership across engineering, product, finance and senior business leadership within and outside organisations that I have worked for.How I operate:1. Lead large, cross-functional programs spanning platforms, infrastructure, engineering, finance and operations for customers.2. Build and scale global teams; experienced manager of managers across multiple countries with implementation of follow the sun, cluster hop type of techniques yielding optimum resource utilisation. Translate long-range demand and risk into clear execution plans and investment decisions.4. Run pilots, MVPs and early initiatives to surface risk and help make informed decision on broader rollouts.5. Partner directly with Directors, VPs, CIOs, CTOs, and senior leaders, communicating complex trade-offs clearly across technical and business audiencesExperience highlights:Amazon Web Services (AWS): I lead cloud infrastructure strategy and capacity planning across APAC, managing a 45-person organisation across 8 countries and supporting multi-billion-dollar investments.Bloomberg: Led £1Billion+ global financial infrastructure platforms supporting users in financially regulated, latency-sensitive environmentsIBM (Australia & India): Built leadership foundation in enterprise and service-provider environments, as an APAC regional SME and technical account manager for large financial and ISP clients in Australia and India for IBM.

Experience

1. Regional Head of Planning, Apac - Cloud Infrastructure Capacity Delivery

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Apr 2025 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Strategic Leadership & Organizational Impact: • Leading a 45+ person regional planning organization across 8 APAC countries (India, China, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia), managing 3 direct manager reports establishing a remote capacity planning model that breaks traditional cluster-based silos • Established a regional planning function from ground up: defined roles, responsibilities, operating model, systems, tools, processes and internal handover mechanisms (to deploy builders) adopted across APAC. • Empowered specialized planning function by eliminating non-planning work, improving team focus and delivery velocity by 60%+Operational Excellence & Delivery: • Achieved consistent 90% capacity hand-off rate across network and project fabric types, ensuring infrastructure availability for customers utilizing cloud services at all times • Reduced network scaling backlog by 94% in 22 weeks of taking the regionsl role through process optimization and stakeholder alignment • Delivered 12+ hyper-scale ML data centers across 20••••25, with aggressive expansion roadmap targeting additional facilities in 2026 • Launched weekly portfolio reporting providing full visibility across 200+ ongoing expansion and scaling projects, enabling proactive risk management and customer visibility.Cross-Functional Partnership: • Heavily collaborated with Design Engineering, Finance, Program Managers and Business teams to align capacity delivery with customer demand and business objectives • Drove standardization initiatives across APAC, reducing deployment complexity and operational overhead by creating standardized planning design templates to cater volume • Partnered with senior leadership on long-range infrastructure strategy, addressing both planned and emergent customer demands

Education

• TERNA POLYTECHNIC, Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education (MSBTE)

  Diploma, Computer Technology

  1999 — 2002

• Swinburne University of Technology

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications

  2006 — 2008

• K. J. Somaiya Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology

  2002 — 2005

Skills

• Ccna
• Routers
• Network Design
• Ipsec
• Technical Support
• Ive Os
• Vlan
• Lan Switching
• Qos
• Ccnp
• Rip
• Junos
• Junose
• Wan
• Lan-Wan
• Tcp/Ip
• Hp Servers
• Bgp
• Switches
• Juniper
• Firewalls
• Checkpoint Splat
• Dns
• Eigrp
• Cisco Routers
• Routing Protocols
• Ip
• Network Engineering
• Network Security
• Voip
• Data Center
• Routing
• Jncip
• Operating Systems
• Networking
• Mpls
• Cisco Technologies
• Snmp
• Ethernet
• Red Hat Linux