Author: Harshvardhan Chunawala

Harshvardhan is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and an AWS Golden Jacket awardee, as well as an AWS Academy Authorized Educator. He partners with large enterprise leaders, startup founders, and C-suite executives globally to architect scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on AWS across diverse industries. At AWS, he serves as a Technical Field Community member of Security, Aerospace, AI/ML, Education/Research, and ISV. He leads cross-functional efforts across multiple Amazon teams, including Amazon Leo, Amazon Security, and AWS Agentic AI, among others, to shape and deliver frontier cloud capabilities in security, satellite, and trustworthy agentic AI services. A globally recognized technologist and expert in cloud security with over a decade of experience, Harshvardhan is an advisory board member, Visiting Faculty member, and researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), mentoring the next generation of cloud professionals and entrepreneurs. Harshvardhan served as Space Mission Engineering Lead and Mission Operator at CMU for the United States' first lunar mission since Apollo 17, part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program that forms the foundation of the Artemis missions. Away from the keyboard, Harshvardhan pursues his love of the skies through skydiving and flying planes.