Ed Sattar is a visionary and serial entrepreneur. He has invested 20 years in the e-learning industry and made significant contributions across multiple industries. Ed developed an Instructional Delivery Methodology called QS Learn, and an AI cognitive learning platform called CLIPP. Ed is based in Austin, TX.

“Tell me I forget. Teach me I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Ben Franklin

Over the past 17 years I have worked on this exact opportunity. Namely, we have come to rely on acquiring a new skill sets with methods largely rooted in the last century. I have always believed that education needs to be more focused on helping people acquire skills and less focused on the delivery of content.

As Founding Member and VP of Cloud Training for Cloud Institute, I’m in charge of enabling you and your teams in the skills needed to leverage the cloud. Since 2002, I have worked in the training and professional services industry. I have extensive experience helping companies understand how to leverage the cloud for competitive advantage to design and build cloud native solutions and enable developers and business users to quickly build and deploy apps in the cloud.

David has 30 years of business-to-business services, consulting, coaching, and training experience in roles from operations, service delivery, marketing, product management, executive management, and ownership. He successfully built and sold his B2B training firm having taken it from zero to $13M in revenue in seven years, all done organically.

Along with his service to Cloud Institute, David provides consulting services to several companies through DTM Services. He also provides pro bono career coaching services using his Career Insurance methodology and canvas. Since 2000, he has presented over 700 times to over 28,000 people on technology, the impact of technology on work, leadership and management in the face of VUCA, and the future of work.

Michael leads product and innovation strategies for Cloud Institute. He oversees all product initiatives, including Cloud Institute’s platform, products, technologies, instructors, coaches and partners. Michael co-founded Cloud Institute because he is passionate about enabling people and companies to upskill in order to grow within or transition into cloud computing. He believes cloud computing provides enormous opportunity for anyone to achieve their goals in technology and the team at Cloud Institute can ensure people reach their goals.

Faisal Khwaja is Vice President of Engineering. He’s experienced in leading IT teams in areas of development, infrastructure, and DevOps. At Cloud Institute, Faisal moved his team from on-premises to AWS’ cloud platform. He has excellent leadership skills and focuses on key KPIs to monitor his team’s performance. He is based in Toronto, Canada.

Experienced leader of data science, analytics and technical teams with an advanced understanding of data engineering, data science, MLOps and responsible AI technologies and the appropriate application of these technologies to solve problems at a massive scale within domains such as Retail, E-commerce, Multi-sided Marketplaces, Finance & Banking, Energy, Manufacturing and Healthcare.

Richard Kang has 15+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture and program management in financial and gaming industry. He specializes in large scale, multi-million dollar multi-year projects featuring low latency and high frequency applications and Big Data architecture.

Drawing his connections in Singapore, Malaysia, China, and his expertise in engineering, Richard works with businesses as a technology partner for designs and solutions of wearables, Internet of Things, and Big Data. Richard is a certified Enterprise Architect, and he holds a Master of Science from the National University of Singapore.

Sana is a Human Resources leader with 10+ years experience in HR operations and strategy implementation, talent acquisition, compensation and benefits management, organization and career development, policy devising and implementation.

For Cloud Institute, she manages employee onboarding programs, conducts and analyzes various HR stats and surveys to support organization culture and change management.

Richard Kang has 15+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture and program management in financial and gaming industry. He specializes in large scale, multi-million dollar multi-year projects featuring low latency and high frequency applications and Big Data architecture.

Drawing his connections in Singapore, Malaysia, China, and his expertise in engineering, Richard works with businesses as a technology partner for designs and solutions of wearables, Internet of Things, and Big Data. Richard is a certified Enterprise Architect, and he holds a Master of Science from the National University of Singapore.

Zaki is a co-founder at a digital self-care wellness platform encompassing a disruptive multi-sided marketplace operating at the intersection of General Health, Nutrition, Mental, Intimate Health & Sexual Wellness.

He has years of experience leading data science, analytics and technical teams with an advanced understanding of data engineering, data science, MLOps and Responsible AI technologies and the appropriate application of these technologies to solve problems at a massive scale within domains such as Retail, E-commerce, Multi-sided Marketplaces, Finance & Banking, Energy, Manufacturing and Healthcare.

Sam has over 20 years of experience it IT that spans cloud computing, databases and Big Data. He is a go-to expert when it comes to optimizing a company's strategy for cloud computing. Sam also helps companies lower their cloud spend  so they don't spend unnecessary resources on cloud services.

Sam is always at the forefront of innovation in cloud computing, which led him to author 18 books about cloud computing and cloud services. He is a lifelong learner whose expertise is invaluable. 

Neeraj is passionate about teaching and learning, always striving to be 1% better every day. He loves impacting the lives of students and helping organizations meet their cloud goals.

Neeraj has deep experience working with global clients on 45+ projects with 7/7 CSAT scores on various projects. He has attained certifications from GCP, Azure, AWS and Oracle.

Sudhanshu is Redhat Certified and a Computer Science graduate. He has worked on multiple technologies including Devops, ML, Python, Redhat Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Cloud Computing, web development and mobile app development. He is currently working as an ML engineer for a startup and as a trainer ona content delivery team for Linuxworld.

He loves learning different technologies and their integration Sudhanshu created an application named "Al Music APP" which can play music according to your facial expression, which he integrated ML with flutter and AWS cloud.

Ahmed is a multicloud, systems, solutions and enterprise architect. He has built and deployed cloud native applications and infrastructure, re-architected and re-platformed monolithic solutions to microservices, event-driven and distributed data intensive applications and APIs with Agile and Lean approaches.

He is adept at anticipating technical needs, sees opportunities and balances the needs of local and central requirements to deliver desired results.

In his current role, Shashike is an end-to-end software architect with a proven track record for building high achieving MVPs, enterprise applications and unlocking millions of dollars in revenue for startups and founders. He has nearly 10 years of hands-on experience in large companies and pre-revenue startups.

Shashike enjoys writing code that matters and dealing with the roadblocks and chaos that come with building prominent products. He loves to be challenged and has never given up in his work, which is why he's been such a crucial team member for so many companies.

Mahesh has transformed his career multiple times from a Software Developer to Sales Engineer to Solution Architect to Technology Leader to Entrepreneur.

He is responsible for providing leadership along with other department heads, such as marketing, sales, pre-sales, and delivery in designing Google Cloud solutions and as an advisor for technologies improving efficiency and effectiveness.

Mahesh is focused on Cloud, AI & Unstructured Data Analytics. He has experience in Presales, Professional Services, Presenting in Industry events, Mentoring, Training & Enablement.

Mahesh has a Google Cloud Platform Evangelist & Enthusiastic YouTuber maintains a YouTube channel named Learn GCP with Mahesh where interesting Google Cloud Platform concepts are shared & the channel is currently subscribed by 12K+ subscribers with 827K+ views & 50K watch hours.

Abiola is a highly experienced Cloud Engineer specializing in architecture and DevOps. He is often sought to provide technology consulting to his clients on their system architecture and infrastructure needs. Abiola's experience and leadership in collaborating with development team members ensures his clients always have scalability, resilience, security, and availability of their software products.

Abiola is a certified Microsoft Azure trainer who has delivered live trainings for enterprises and has produced self-paced courses for those who prefer to learn at their own pace.

Abiola holds over 20 IT certifications across multiple cloud companies and other technologies including: AWS, Azure, Oracle, Kubernetes, Google Cloud and others.

Siddhesh Prabhugaonkar is a Microsoft Certified Trainer based in India where he works as a cloud solution architect and corporate trainer. He has over 15 years of experience as an IT professional and trainer. His focus areas include Microsoft Azure, .NET and Microsoft technologies in general. 

He currently works as a cloud solution architect with ZasmLabs. He has been recruited to work with global training institutes like O'Reilly Learning, Global Knowledge, Netcom Learning, Opsgility, Simplilearn, Cloud Institute and others.

Aman is an expert software developer with extensive experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning software applications. He has earned four Microsoft Azure certifications and a Google Cloud certification. 

Most of Aman's work is for a large technology company where he leads their machine learning strategy. 

Aman is a cloud evangelist who cares deeply about technology and innovation. He enjoys teaching people about cloud technologies and has delivered training classes for over 20 enterprise companies and 10,000 IT professionals. 

Aneesh has 14+ years of experience in a range of IT and cloud technologies. He is a highly skilled trainer having instructed 250+ candidates on Google Cloud Platform.

His expertise is in Cloud Platforms (GCP and AWS), DevOps tools, Jenkins, GIT, Terraform, Redhat Linux, Windows, Solaris, Networking, storage and monitoring.

Akhil began his career as a software engineer at Avaya and after a few quick promotions he was recruited to become a consultant. His attention to detail, hands-on experience with cloud applications and always staying at the forefront of innovation helps him deliver big results for his clients. 

Cloud technologies are of such interest to Akhil that he dedicates much of his time to helping others advance their skills in cloud computing such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Akhil's knowledge of multi-cloud strategies makes his expertise invaluable to clients and their customers.

William Clark is the founder and CEO of Clark Technology Group, Inc. For the past 30 years he has been working with networking and cybersecurity in the retail, health care, government, military and manufacturing sectors. He is an accomplished IT trainer with over 30 years of experience in the classroom delivering hands-on learning experiences to his students. In addition to an active certification training schedule, he currently serves as Lead Coach for an award-winning Cybersecurity Bootcamp program.

Bill is a CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer and holds the following certifications: CompTIA IT Fundamentals, Network+, Security+, Mobility+, Certified Wireless Network Trainer, CWTS, and CWNA. In addition to teaching exam prep courses for those certificates, Bill is also an experienced course developer and is the author of several technical training courses.