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In an industry that is often driven by speed and novelty, responsibility is sometimes overlooked. Manikandan Mylsamy has built a career around a skill that’s far less flashy but far more necessary. With over 17 years of industry experience, his work has focused on making technology reliable in the places it matters most: high-risk environments where downtime is unacceptable, and failure could have severe consequences for millions of users.
Mylsamy’s entry into technology began on the ground, in hands-on system support roles where outages were immediately disruptive. Supporting critical IT systems early in his career taught him that reliability is a skill that must be practiced every day.
If systems didn’t work properly, people couldn’t do their jobs. That intensity shaped his approach long before cloud computing became the default for infrastructure problems.
As enterprises and government organizations began to confront the limitations of using old, fragmented infrastructure, Mylsamy was repeatedly entrusted with handling some of their most complex modernization efforts.
Over time, he progressed from preliminary infrastructure roles into leading large-scale cloud transformations, often in environments that were already under strain. These were systems that supported essential services, global operations, and high-traffic platforms. Even the smallest errors can turn into severe disruptions.
What sets Mylsamy’s work apart is not simply that his migration efforts succeeded. He has led near-zero downtime transitions from legacy systems to scalable architectures, reducing operational risks while improving their performance, security, and cost efficiency. Many of the architectures and frameworks he designed became reference models that have been replicated across organizations and used to guide future transformation initiatives. His work sets a high bar for what responsible transitions look like in high-stakes environments.
As a Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services, Mylsamy currently does both engineering and executive decision-making. That means he is right at the customers’ side during impactful moments, such as complex migrations, critical incidents, and long-term cloud strategy planning.
Rather than focusing on tools alone, he turns technical decisions into positive business outcomes, helping organizations build more reliable and scalable architectures. He helps them align their business goals using measurable performance indicators.
Stakeholders often describe Mylsamy as someone to turn to when the stakes are high. Their trust is earned from his methodical approach, which includes a deep system analysis, phased execution, rigorous testing, and defined rollback strategies. By prioritizing preparation over speed, he has consistently delivered modernization programs that stabilize environments, lowering incident rates and reducing operational overhead through automation.
One of his core beliefs is that the best technological solutions should be built around people and outcomes. He sees technical leadership as a personal responsibility. It requires remaining calm under pressure and holding oneself accountable when systems are at a critical state.
His advice to emerging leaders is to prioritize technical depth over recognition, to personally seek responsibility, and let the consistent results speak for themselves.
Manikandan Mylsamy aims to continue leading large-scale innovation across industries and contribute to the best practices in cloud adoption and enterprise architecture. Through personal leadership, mentorship, and experience, he seeks to have a lasting influence by helping organizations create systems that stand the test of time.
