Ishwar Parulkar

Amazon Web Services, Chief Technologist

Speaker Bio

Dr. Ishwar Parulkar is the Chief Technologist for Telecom at Amazon Web Services. In this role he is responsible for setting AWS technology strategy, defining new cloud services and initiatives to enable telcos to transform to modernized, digital service providers.


At AWS he has worked on cloud innovations such as edge services, building cloud native telco networks, and applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable telco transformation. Prior to AWS, Dr. Parulkar was in various technology leadership roles. As the Chief Architect for telecom business unit at Cisco, he developed several products from telecom routers, packet core, small cells and orchestration, automation technology.


Before Cisco, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems leading technology inflexions in the industry like the first multi-core processor systems and first compute virtualization platforms in the industry. He started his career at Apple, working on Mac personal computers and devices. Dr. Parulkar holds an M.S. from Vanderbilt University and a Ph.D. from University of Southern California. In 2017, Dr. Parulkar was elected a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering for his seminal contributions to the field of communication networks and data center computing.

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