Prasad Rao

About

Experienced Principal Solutions Architect with 18+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles, specializing in digital and GenAI transformation, cloud native architectures, and AI/ ML adoption.Currently in the AWS Worldwide Specialist Organisation (WWSO), working directly with enterprise customers to migrate and modernize their workloads on AWS and design and deliver production-grade AI/ ML solutions — from RAG-based knowledge systems to LLM evaluation frameworks.Proven track record in building relationships with c-level executives, pre-sales technical discovery, prototyping complex GenAI PoCs, coaching technical teams, and managing multi-million dollar enterprise relationships.Published thought leader (100K+ blog views), international conference speaker, and co-founder of BeSA, acommunity that has upskilled 20,000+ people in cloud and AIIn my free time I love to mentor people who are new to cloud and would like to get started on AWS and achieve AWS certification. I help people to progress in their cloud and AI journey and give them career advice to move into cloud specific roles.I have started a free mentoring initiative - BeSA (Become a Solutions Archtiect) along with colleagues at AWS. Check the details here - https://besaprogram.com/I have also co-authored 'Cloud Career Journeys' book - https://cloudcareerjourneys.com/All opinions expressed are my own and not of my employer