Ebrahim Khiyami

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About Me

Hi, you can call me EB. I'm an Engineer, Technologist, Cloud Architect, and a Builder.

Thanks for your interest in knowing more about me. While LinkedIn is great, it has a limit on how much content you can include in your profile. So, I built this website as an online resume to showcase my professional experience and some public work items I've delivered over the years.

You can see my work samples here.

You can check my services here.

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I entered the software business in 2000 when I got accepted into the School of Computer Engineering. During the 5-year program, I started working as a freelance technical support specialist, visiting customers at their homes or workplaces to fix their computers or printers. I then began teaching IT courses.

By the time I graduated from engineering school, I had built enough confidence to land my first corporate role as a network and system administrator.

Since then, I have held multiple roles: technician, software developer, tech support, salesperson, system administrator, network administrator, database administrator, architect, manager, project manager, entrepreneur, and solution architect. I am also a husband, father, mentor, and hobbyist visual creator.

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Currently, I am employed at Amazon Web Services, where I support multiple teams. My business title is Solutions Architect. I’m an SME in Cloud Optimization, Migration and Modernization, Resiliency, and a few other areas. I enjoy building things that solve customers’ problems and evangelizing them. Breaking down complex problems into manageable solutions and then documenting and sharing them comes naturally to me.

I’ve been an architect in customer-facing roles for the past 10 years.

I like to think of my role as a customer advisor, a transformer, a bridge between complex and sometimes messy technical terms and customers. I help customers understand technology and navigate it to transform their business in plain language.

I do this through speaking, writing, coding, and occasionally illustrating.

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This website serves as a platform for me to share the things I build. Over time, the list of projects has grown quite long and doesn’t fit well on my LinkedIn profile page. Unless otherwise stated, all artifacts shared here are owned by my employer and represent their opinions.

I work only on things that I enjoy. If I’m working on something I like, I may steal a few hours from weekends, nights, or bedtime to make progress. Given that context, I’m not a typical 9-5 person, but also not a geek.

Official Bio

Ebrahim (EB) Khiyami is a technology leader with two decades of experience in IT architecture and systems engineering. He helps organizations of all sizes—from startups to large enterprises—leverage cloud technologies to solve business challenges and build innovative, data-driven models.

In his current role as a Cloud Optimization Solutions Architect at AWS, EB assists customers in designing and operating cloud workloads according to AWS architectural best practices. He ensures that customers gain visibility into the health of their architectures, develop strategies to mitigate risks, and maximize the value of their cloud investments.

Before joining the Cloud Optimization team, EB worked as a Migration Specialist, where he played a key role in building the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) and founded the MAP Automator, which has accelerated the migration of thousands of customer workloads to AWS.

Prior to joining AWS, EB served as a Technical Architect, where he helped multiple large enterprises design and implement their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and its supporting infrastructure. His industry experience spans financial services, manufacturing, and education companies.

EB is also a recognized thought leader and published author, having contributed to and authored multiple papers on AWS Migration, Modernization, Disaster Recovery, and Cloud Optimization in various languages. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering, a Master’s degree in IT Management, and a Master’s degree in Enterprise Resource Planning from the Florida Institute of Technology. Over the years, EB has guided numerous professionals in pursuing or transitioning into careers in cloud computing.

Outside of work, he enjoys coaching and playing sports with his three boys and is a master at binge-watching shows at night.

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