Migration & Modernization

Pratikkumar Chunawala

Author: Pratikkumar Chunawala

Pratikkumar Chunawala is a Principal Delivery Consultant and Bar Raiser at Amazon Web Services, specializing in large-scale migration and modernization. Over the past eight years, he has led data center exit programs globally and thousands of servers, spanning financial services, insurance, healthcare and life sciences, and other regulated industries. His current focus is applying AI and agentic AI to accelerate migration and modernization, helping enterprises move faster while keeping quality and governance intact. Pratikkumar serves the International Board of Directors of the NYU Polytechnic Alumni Association. He also is Principal course advisor, guest lecturer, and panelist at New York University, where his sessions cover agentic AI, large migrations, and spec-driven development. He also serves on the CUNY Tech Futures AI + Emerging Tech Advisory Working Group.

Sustaining migration velocity through structured operational handoffs

Pratikkumar Chunawala, Principal Consultant, Professional Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Introduction This post presents a diagnostic framework for sustaining migration velocity, covering the velocity curve model, two structural forces that cause deceleration, and three leading indicators to detect the pattern early. Migration velocity stalls between waves 20 and 35 in most large-scale programs, not because […]