Ishit Vachhrajani
AWS Enterprise Strategist
"A leader’s biggest challenge is not a wrong decision; it’s hesitating to make a decision."
-- Ishit Vachhrajani

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Ishit Vachhrajani, AWS Enterprise Strategist
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Podcasts
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111: Creative Workforce Solutions to Close the Gap in Tech Talent
A conversation with Jonathan Allen, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS, Ishit Vachhrajani, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS, Clarke Rodgers, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWSCutting-edge tools and technology without the right talent have little value. The engineer skillset must change as rapidly as the technology in order to remain relevant. Building a culture of innovation and creating an environment that provides growth for individuals and teams is crucial to successful transformation. Hear from three seasoned AWS executives who have successfully built and led technology teams as they share their experiences and strategies to help organizations navigate their cloud transformation journeys.
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110: C-Suite Strategies for Leading Significant Change
A conversation with Jonathan Allen, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS Ishit Vachhrajani, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS Clarke Rodgers, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWSWhile cloud adoption may bring speed and agility into the business growth equation, there are also numerous risks and challenges that must be addressed. Balancing momentum and disruption is an ongoing struggle for executives attempting to transform their companies. Hear from three seasoned AWS enterprise strategists who have successfully led organizations through change as they share their experiences and strategies to help organizations navigate their cloud transformation journeys.
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One Size Fits All Cloud Strategy
A conversation with AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit VachhrajaniThis week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani tackle the question: "Is there a one-size fits all cloud strategy?". Leaders wonder, can I use a per-defined or templatized cloud adoption strategy? Can something like this exist? Listen in to hear Jake, Ishit, and Bryan answer these questions and share their advice for leaders as they begin their AWS Cloud journey.
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Blogs
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Surviving Digital Disruption: Back to Basics
by Ishit Vachhrajani, Enterprise Strategist, AWSInternet was the future and the dot-com boom was just around the corner. I had just landed a job as a developer before I even graduated. I was looking forward to learning Java, working on some e-commerce projects, and being a part of the next dot-com success story. Optimism was in the air. Then, on my first day on the job, I was assigned to a batch of COBOL trainees!
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Hitting the Target but Missing the Mark
by Ishit Vachhrajani, Enterprise Strategist, AWSAs a developer fresh out of school, the first two service level agreements (SLAs) that I was accountable for were on-time delivery (OTD) and first time right (FTR). While the intention of the first time right measure was to reduce rework and prevent defects from flowing down the line, it also resulted in long planning cycles, reams of paper used for requirement gathering, and formal sign-offs from the “business” as if IT was an external vendor. Fortunately, I grew out of that measure, adopting a more incremental and experimental Agile approach. However, on-time delivery has been a harder one to shake off—I am still working on it!
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AI Explorations of a Former Media CTO (With No Prior Machine Learning Experience)
by Ishit Vachhrajani, Enterprise Strategist, AWSne of the challenges many enterprise leaders face is how to experiment and quickly create business value from machine learning without establishing large teams with specialized skillsets and infrastructure. As a CTO, I found that having access to Amazon Web Service’s pre-trained AI Services enabled our developers, even those with no prior machine leaning experience, to build AI-driven applications quickly. Even more empowering personally was how easily it allowed me and other senior leaders on the team with somewhat rusty hands-on coding experience to experiment and think about meaningful use cases. This is where AI has tremendous power to unlock business value in every industry, not just by lowering the cost of entry, but also by making it accessible to all skill levels within the enterprise.
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