Company: Informatica, Redwood City, CA
Company Description: Informatica is Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. Informatica’s annual revenue is more than $1.5 billion with 5,000+ employees and 5,000+ active customers. Informatica brings data to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets. through Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ platform powered by our AI engine, CLAIRE®.
Nomination Category: Thought Leadership Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Thought Leader of The Year - Consumer Products
 Nomination Title: Amreth Chandrasehar
- Which will you submit for this nomination, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the nominated individual, OR written answers to the questions for this category? CHOOSE ONE:
Written answers to the questions
- If you are submitting a video of up to five (5) minutes in length, provide the URL of the nominated video here, OR attach it to your entry via the "Add Attachments, Videos, or Links to This Entry" link above, through which you may also upload a copy of your video.
- If you are providing written answers to the questions for this category, you must answer this first question: Briefly describe the nominated individual: history and past performance (up to 200 words):
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At Informatica, Amreth lead the first Generative AI implementation where LLM models are trained, integrated with various customer facing products. Amreth helped LLM Model research, Model training Pipeline, monitoring of models, which helped to train models at 75% less than before. This was a very high priority and innovative project which was completed in much less time than traditional software and ML model development life cycle.
Amreth was also responsible to take a complex development of in-house Observability stack using Elastic Stack with cutting edge solutions using Kubernetes, ECK Operator, Graviton Processors and Elastic Stack to migrate 50 TB of data/day from a SaaS provider to hosted Elastic Cluster. This saved the company $30 Million till date.
Prior to Informatica, Amreth lead one of the complex microservice based development and Kubernetes migration journey and implemented Cloud Native solution to serve 140+ Million T-Mobile customers. The Infrastructure and development pipeline enabled 100's of T-Mobile products to seamlessly deploy its 500,000 containers on Kubernetes without any downtime and accelerated deployment times by 5x.
Amreth is also co-creator of Conducktor Product used for deployment and management of Kuberentes, micro-services and automation tools, used by 1000+ developers serving T-Mobile's 140 Million Customers.
- If you are providing written answers to the questions for this category, you must answer this second question: Outline the nominee's thought leadership achievements since 1 January 2021 that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 250 words):
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As Head of MLOps, Observability and SRE, Amreth was Pivotal in innovation, lead comples projects sucessfuly and helped the organization in acheiving the CFCN journey. Amreth also, helped to save company $30 Million till date on various initiatives on projects using Machine Learning and Observability.
Amreth is part of Tech Advisory board for Observo.AI and Customer Advisory boards at AWS and Elastic.co to advise and provide feedback on their products before GA and also a design partner during product development lifecycle.
Amreth has been invited and spoken at several key conferences to share experience and improve Tech Transformation for 1000's of attendees. Amreth has also lead various workshops to train 1000's of developers to learn CNCF Platforms.
Over last few years, Amreth has played key role in Public Cloud Migration, CNCF Architecture, Generative AI, Observability, ML and AI Ops implementation and adoption at various organizations which has enabled the companies to grow faster, rollout key features quickly to customers and reliably develop and operate large scale platforms, products.
- If you are providing written answers to the questions for this category, you must answer this third question: Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the nominee's past performance (up to 250 words):
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1. Sucessfully lead the first MLOps for Generative AI implementation at Informatica, enabling seamless integration with various products and automatic training/re-training of Large Language Models
2. Part of 3 Tech and Customer Advisory Boards at AWS, Elastic.co and Observo.AI. Invited Speaker at AWS re:Invent (2x) and Elastic Con and Speaker at various Tech conferences to share experience and improve Tech Transformation at several organizations.
3. Lead and Implemented most complex migration from SaaS to hosted Observability solution, saving $10 Million anually
4. Member of AWS Community Builder program
- You have the option to reference here any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 250 words):
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1. https://hostingjournalist.com/elasticon-global-customer-session-informatica/ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZQS9QmftF8&)
2. https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/informatica-goes-all-in-on-generative-ai-with-claire-gpt/
3. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/tmobile-case-study/
4. https://d1.awsstatic.com/psc-digital/2021/gc-300/accelerate-application-modernization-ebook/Accelerate-Application-Modernization-eBook.pdf
5. https://opensource.t-mobile.com/blog/posts/conducktor-go/
6. https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/community-builders/community-builders-directory/?cb-cards.sort-by=item.additionalFields.cbName&
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_slx05oolEc&
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