Janakiram MSV (Jani) is a practicing architect, research analyst, and advisor to Silicon Valley startups. He focuses on the convergence of modern infrastructure powered by cloud-native technology and machine intelligence driven by generative AI. Before becoming an entrepreneur, he spent over a decade as a product manager and technology evangelist at Microsoft Corporation and Amazon Web Services. Janakiram regularly writes for Forbes, InfoWorld, and The New Stack, covering the latest from the technology industry. He is an international keynote speaker for internal sales conferences, product launches, and user conferences hosted by technology companies of all sizes. His previous experience includes Microsoft, AWS, Gigaom Research and Alcatel-Lucent.