My name is Imaya Kumar Jagannathan and I currently work at Amazon Web Services (AWS) leading a team of Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architects, focusing on Observability and Cloud management services.

I am a recognized thought leader, author, public speaker and blog writer in the Observability space, and I actively publish articles, blog posts, guides, videos etc on a regular basis in the intent to help the technical community achieve greater results in their Observability journey.

I regularly speak at events such as AWS re:Invent, AWS Summits, KubeCon, SLOconf, DeveloperWeek etc.

I lead, mentor, and grow Technical Solution Architects from all around the world in the Observability space. My efforts at AWS has resulted in creation of a strong cohort of Technical Architects who function as leaders in the Observability space that are able to advocate and provide architectural guidance to AWS customers.

My preferred mode of contact is LinkedIn. Happy to connect!

Book

Co-authored a book titled Building Resilient Architectures on AWS that covers resilient architectures at depth. It is an exhaustive guide that helps the reader build cost-efficient, resilient architectures on AWS.

Blogs

The above link will show search results for the word imaya kumar in the AWS Blogs website showing all the posts I either authored solely or along with a partner.

Speaking engagements

All videos linked here are posted on channels owned by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Large scale public events

Other events

Videos on .NET development

Other public events/body of work

Significant public artifacts

Launched in 2019 and being updated with new features every week since launch, this is a hands-on, self-guided workshop that you can go through to learn all about AWS Observability services and features. This includes AWS native Observability services such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray and also learn about AWS managed open-source Observability services such as Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana and AWS Distro for Open Telemetry.

The website is frequented by 700,000 users every year and has been deployed more than 25,000 times since launch. The general consensus is that this artifact helped AWS customers get exposed to AWS Observability services faster and as a result made significant revenue contributions to AWS.

Launched in 2022, and being maintained through the support of dozens of AWS Solution Architects, this is a site that helps customers understand the nitty-gritty details of implementing Observability in their environment. This website provides thought leadership in various technical areas such as Containers, Serverless, on-prem workloads, Amazon EC2, and covers operational areas such as best practices is operating open telemetry collectors at scale, etc.

I regularly form cohorts of highly technical Solution Architects in the field to create various pieces of highly technical content, perform technical review, assess accuracy, provide feedback to keep the site latest and accurate to changing technology trends.

Launched in 2022, this is a Terraform based software package that helps setting up Observability for Amazon EKS environments easy and simple. This leverages the AWS Distro for Open Telemetry Collector to automatically collect infrastructure metrics, Kubernetes control plane metrics, application metrics and traces from the environment and publishes several dashboards on Amazon Managed Grafana for customers to monitor.

Recognitions

Mentions of my work in 3rd party websites