Michael Zazon

Michael Zazon

Principal Solutions Architect / AWS

Hands-on, multi-cloud architect and technical leader with over 25 years of experience designing, building, and running cloud and infrastructure platforms.

Practice

Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, influencing technology strategy as the firm-wide architect for a large strategic financial services customer, across its cloud platform, networking, streaming, resilience and identity. Before that, almost five years in AWS Professional Services, co-leading the technical side of a multi-year data-center exit and application modernization for a global financial data provider. Earlier, I led application development and operations teams at Ohio State and delivery teams at Cloudreach. Co-author of the AWS Cookbook (O'Reilly Media), active open-source contributor, and builder leveraging agentic AI in professional and personal settings.

Technology strategy · Cloud architecture · Agentic AI · Application modernization · Financial services · Team leadership

Fig. 1 / Work over timeProportional to years
Reading
The Alignment ProblemBrian Christian
Listening
Vulfpeck, In Real Life
Last bird on Aviary
Red-bellied woodpecker
Last overhead on Airspace
Gulfstream G650