Michael Cymerman

Strategic cloud and customer engineering leader with 30+ years of experience delivering classified cloud transformation, AI platform deployment, and enterprise modernization initiatives across the Intelligence Community, and Department of Defense. Successfully led technical organizations, advised executive stakeholders, supported strategic opportunities exceeding $100M, and helped drive adoption of secure cloud-native architectures in classified and air-gapped environments.

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Master Principal Solutions Architect at ORACLE (2026-02 – Present)

• Architect and deploy complex cloud topologies supporting Intelligence Community OCI regions utilizing OCI Compute, VCN, FastConnect, and secure infrastructure services.
• Lead technical discovery, requirements gathering, and enterprise architecture planning for classified multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Design scalable reference architectures supporting high availability, disaster recovery, and secure workload migration.
• Provide technical sales leadership, opportunity reviews, customer planning sessions, and strategic resource prioritization.
• Advise government customers and senior technical stakeholders on cloud transformation strategy, operational readiness, and secure enterprise adoption.

Lead AI Solutions Architect at C3.AI (2025-08 – 2026-01)

• Worked directly with Intelligence Community customers in a post-sales engineering role supporting deployment and operational use of AI-driven mission solutions.
• Led architecture and engineering discussions demonstrating the capabilities of the C3 AI Application Platform.
• Integrated enterprise data flows into standardized C3 AI data models supporting performance monitoring and anomaly detection.
• Supported AI and analytics initiatives involving large-scale data migration, transformation, and operational data handling.
• Designed scalable and reusable AI reference architectures supporting customer mission requirements.

Staff Solutions Architect at VMware/Broadcom (2021-10 – 2025-05)

• Led architectural strategy and technical oversight for IL5/IL6 VMware Cloud deployments supporting classified government workloads and FedRAMP-aligned environments.
• Served as the lead Solution Engineer supporting approximately $100M in strategic defense opportunities alongside a single account executive for two major defense agencies.
• Guided customers through VMware Cloud Foundation product packaging, cloud adoption strategy, and capability expansion efforts to increase platform consumption and mission adoption.
• Directed cross-functional coordination with AWS, Sequoia, BAE Systems, and government stakeholders to replicate air-gapped cloud environments.
• Designed secure monitoring and oversight architectures leveraging AWS Cross-Domain Solutions.
• Advised Intelligence Community stakeholders on migration readiness, enterprise transformation efforts, and cloud adoption strategy.
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP VCF 5.2, VCP-vSphere Data Center Virtualization).

Solutions Architect Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2020-05 – 2021-10)

• Managed and mentored a team of seven Solutions Architects supporting Intelligence Community customers and mission-critical federal programs.
• Led hiring efforts resulting in 15 successful technical hires into AWS.
• Conducted performance reviews, promotion evaluations, mentoring, and performance improvement planning activities for engineering team members.
• Led customer engineering engagements focused on cloud migration, modernization, security, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Supported migration of five major mission-focused applications and projects from on-premises environments into AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Led executive and technical architecture reviews, customer planning sessions, sales reviews, and advisory engagements with government leadership and Prime Contractor organizations.
• Worked with senior government executives and mission leadership to help shape early cloud adoption strategy and operational policy alignment for classified cloud environments.
• Partnered with government organizations during AWS expansion into air-gapped regions to modernize policies and operational approaches incompatible with cloud-native environments.
• Developed proof-of-concept solutions utilizing Lambda, Aurora, Kubernetes, and modern cloud-native technologies.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, Developer Associate, and DevOps Professional.

Senior Technical Staff at Yankee Cloud Consulting (2018-07 – 2020-05)

• Formed and led multi-partner engineering teams supporting U.S. Government cloud modernization initiatives.
• Designed and implemented modern enterprise applications and automated CI/CD delivery pipelines supporting secure mission operations.
• Led cloud infrastructure architecture, deployment automation, operational engineering, and accreditation support activities.
• Presented architecture recommendations and enterprise transformation strategies to community-wide review boards and leadership stakeholders.
• Supported deployment of AI-enabled translation technologies into classified government infrastructure.
• Designed Kubernetes-based deployment architectures using EKS and KOPS while supporting migration efforts from Google Cloud to AWS.
• Representative Customers & Programs: CACI, Raytheon, Lilt

President & Senior Consultant at ITPath Consulting (2003-07 – 2018-06)

• Led secure cloud transformation, enterprise modernization, systems integration, and architecture initiatives across the Intelligence Community.
• Directed architecture, deployment, accreditation support, operational rollout, and technical delivery activities for numerous mission-critical systems.
• Guided engineering teams on cloud migration strategies, distributed systems design, ATO processes, and secure enterprise architectures.
• Worked closely with senior government leaders, partner organizations, and executive stakeholders to shape technical strategy and modernization roadmaps.
• Supported customer-facing transformation initiatives involving secure collaboration platforms, enterprise integration, biometrics, distributed systems, and large-scale operational infrastructure.
• Participated in executive briefings and technical strategy discussions focused on cloud adoption and modernization within classified environments.
• Representative Customers & Programs: Raytheon, SAIC, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, United States Army, Titan Secure Systems

Engineering, Architecture, Technical Leadership, and Program Management roles at Lockheed Martin, GroupServe, Qwest Communications, Digital Focus (1995 – 2003)

Held progressively senior engineering, architecture, technical leadership, and program management roles.

• Key contributions included distributed systems engineering, enterprise platform architecture, secure infrastructure design, operational support systems, customer-facing enterprise applications, and large-scale systems integration.
• At Qwest Communications, led a geographically distributed organization of approximately 70 personnel across six locations delivering customer-facing B2B enterprise platforms and large-scale integration initiatives.

Masters in Systems Engineering – Virginia Polytechnic & State University (1998)

Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering – University of Michigan (1995)