Dr. Sam Mokhtari
Twenty years across research, enterprise consulting, and hyperscale cloud. I take platforms from strategy through architecture to teams that ship, not pilots that stall. What I bring to an employer: → Production Gen AI & agentic systems (governance, security, cost, scale on AWS and multi-cloud) → Modern data & AI platform architecture (lakehouse, analytics, ML ops, FinOps-aware design) → Executive and board-level communication; strong pre-sales and solutions background → Building and mentoring engineering and architecture teams; hiring bar, delivery standards, roadmaps Career highlights: → Now: CTO at Rezilens, engineering, platform, GRC/cybersecurity, and agentic-AI products → University of Dubai: Industry Executive, aligning AI, cybersecurity, and IS programs with enterprise practice → Macquarie University: Adjunct Fellow, research and teaching in data, AI, and industry practice → MentorCruise: AI and cloud career mentor (since 2023) → AWS (5+ years): ANZ AI Sales Lead (Accelerated Compute/Gen AI); Efficiency Lead SA and Well-Architected author; Senior Manager (Analytics & AI, sustainability); Senior SA (APAC data & AI) → Deloitte (3 years): Specialist Lead and Manager, cloud, analytics, and AI transformation programs → CSIRO (3 years): Postdoctoral Fellow, deep learning on IoT and large-scale sensor analytics Also: PhD (electrical engineering); author of three books on Amazon (agentic AI, cloud AI infrastructure, GRC in the agentic era); contributor to AWS Well-Architected and field guidance on sustainability and Gen AI.
