Michele Riso

Head of Enterprise Group Architecture, orchestrating all solutions architecture operations at the head of multiple globally dislocated cross-functional teams. Proven ability to build high-performance teams from the ground up.

Holding AWS Solutions Architect Professional and AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certifications

Exemplary expertise in financial services, healthcare, team leadership and Enterprise Architecture.

Adopts a consultative approach in presenting to C-level Stakeholders, to ensure a full understanding of requirements and achieve full buy-in. Works alongside Sales Teams to support all Pre-Sales customer-facing Activities. Prepares large scale RFI and RFP responses and presents them to the Client's stakeholder forums.

Designed highly scalable AWS Architectures handling 1B requests per day. Reduced AWS running costs by 40%

Delivered multiple Cloud migration projects from on-premises to Cloud-native or Hybrid Architectures for Top Tier Banks on AWS / Microsoft Azure / RedHat OpenShift. Delivered transformation projects from VM/EC2 instances to serverless with AWS Lambda and containers using Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift.

Consistent record of writing about AWS on the AWS Blog and Medium.com. Entrepreneur - Founder & former CTO of Riso Engineering Solutions, startup.