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Arvind Balakumar

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Corporate Vice President of Engineering, AI Infrastructure at AMD
📍 Seattle, Washington, United States

Arvind Balakumar is the Corporate Vice President of AI Infrastructure at AMD, leading engineering for cluster-scale AI solutions. His career spans leadership roles at AWS, Google Cloud, and Intel, focusing on hyperscale compute, cloud scalability, and infrastructure automation. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Arvind has demonstrated a commitment to community involvement through past volunteer work. He previously served as an Action Center Coordinator for Vibha in Seattle, a non-profit organization focused on supporting underprivileged children.

Unique fact: At AWS, he led the strategic execution for global infrastructure scalability across 120 Availability Zones in 38 regions.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Corporate Vice President of Engineering, AI Infrastructure
Job Level
Senior
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
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AI Infrastructure
He currently leads the engineering for AMD's Helios AI server-rack platform, which is designed to meet the insatiable demand for AI compute.
Cloud Scalability
As a General Manager at AWS, he led the vision and execution for scaling global infrastructure across compute, networking, and data centers.
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Career

Work history

11-2025
Corporate Vice President of Engineering, AI Infrastructure
AMD
11-2025
General Manager - AWS Infrastructure Scalability
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
General Manager, AWS Infrastructure Automation Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4-2020
Director of Product, AWS Infrastructure Automation Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4-2020
Head of Product and Technology Partnerships - Compute and AI Infrastructure, Google Cloud
Google
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AMD Hires AWS Executive As Lead Engineer For 'Helios' AI Server .... Featured in CRN
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Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
MS
Clemson University
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