Nagaraju Kakarla

About Nagaraju Kakarla

With 25 years at the intersection of technology, innovation, and business strategy, I drive large-scale transformation for enterprises and digital-native companies across India, APJ, and global markets. As Head of Technology & Solutions Architecture and Field CTO at AWS, I collaborate with CXOs and senior executives to unlock business value through cloud migration, platform engineering, data & AI, etc. My core expertise lies in shaping cloud-first, AI-driven strategies that deliver measurable ROI, enhance developer productivity & experience, and accelerate time-to-market. I lead with humility and a product mindset coupled with execution discipline—aligning technical innovation with customer and business imperatives. Spearheaded high-impact cloud migration, application modernization, data & AI/ML initiatives across regulated industries Trusted advisor to Fortune 500 clients, enabling boardroom-to-code transformations Proven track record at Amazon, Fidelity Investments, Intuit, and Cisco in driving digital agility and engineering excellence My mission is to empower organizations to innovate at scale, modernize confidently, and lead in a cloud and AI-powered world. I thrive on building & scaling high-performing global teams, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and architecting distributed systems that are as resilient as they are intelligent. Let’s connect if you\'re passionate about creating a multiplier impact with cloud & AI as growth levers—and want to step into the future boldly with speed & scale!

Experience

1. India Apj Leader, Head of Engineering & Solutions Architecture- Enterprise its and Gsi, Dnb

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Aug 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   As Field CTO, I\'m a strategic Engineering and Solution Architecture leader, advisor, and partner to CXOs, Sr Tech Leaders, and decision makers for the Enterprise segment (IT Services, Global System Integrators) and Digital Natives. These together form one of the largest segments in APJ/India (multi-million $$ business), with strong presence in US and EMEA. I lead Technology & Product Engineering strategy, Migration & Modernization (M&M), Data & AI/ML solutions across key pathways viz, cloud native, open source, managed DBs, data & analytics, and DevOps to help our customers maximize ROI from cloud investments. I am a specialist in M&M, Data & AI, DevOps, and Security; collaborate with partners and internal groups to enable our customers, built a Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy and execution plan to win big with them.• I have built an agile, high-performing global team that had a multiplier effect to drive the segment to greater heights. My profound advocacy and push for programmatic and outcome-driven initiatives for our customers led to consistent scaling of modernization.• As a specialist leader, I have been spearheading my team hands-on through key strategic imperatives around Migration & Modernization, Data & Analytics, and Gen AI services like SageMaker, Bedrock, and Amazon Q suite, while focusing on security and responsible AI too, thereby delivering a significant growth for the segment by 2.5x since FY23.• I helped our customers achieve their speed to market goals at scale and they have been great references to other segments and customers as playbooks, creating a ripple effect.• I have built an all-specialist team that helped in scaling adoption of AWS cloud-native/managed services including AI/ML 3x in 2 yrs (FY23/24).• I\'m an Exec sponsor & Lead for Engineering excellence, Developer Productivity & Experience for multiple business segments, and Keynote speaker at community engagements at CNBC, CII, NASSCOM, key partner conferences, and AWS events.

Education

• Annamalai University

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science

• MEDDIC Academy

  Introduction to MEDDIC, MEDDIC Sales Methodology

• Bangalore Institute of Technology

  Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer and Information Sciences

  2002 — 2004