Misha Nikoo

Commander
DISC Type : D

Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

New York, New York, United States

Overview

Misha is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services with over five years of experience. A Purdue University engineering graduate, she specializes in advising SMB customers on cloud best practices, focusing on secure, scalable, and cost-optimized environments. People who have worked with her describe her as energetic and humble.

Outside of her technical role, Misha is passionate about traveling and experiencing new cultures. She stays active through regular workouts and enjoys expressing her creativity through various crafting activities.

Unique Fact: Misha is a published author on the official AWS Blog, where she wrote about using automation to resolve operational tasks.

Personality Overview

Decisive

Risk-Taker

Candid & Clear

They like to act fast and expect others to do the same.  They are very proud of what they do. They respond better to strong and respectful interactions.

Topics They Care About

Cloud Cost Optimization
Developed automation to delete unused resources, resulting in significant savings for a customer, and has written about EBS volume management.
Infrastructure as Code
Has hands-on experience creating data lake infrastructure using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) in Python.
Cloud Automation
Authored an AWS blog post on using Systems Manager Automation runbooks to standardize and automate cloud operational tasks.

Media Appearances

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Work History

1-2025
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
9-2023 - 1-2025
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
9-2021 - 9-2023
Cloud Infrastructure Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
5-2018 - 8-2018
Electrical Engineering Op Tech Intern at ArcelorMittal USA

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) from Purdue University
Minor in Mathematics from Purdue University

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Insights For Selling To Misha

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Objectively showcase the impact that your product creates
  • Get to the point quickly instead of spending time doing small talk
  • Be respectful but crisp

DONT's

  • Don’t focus on process and rules, give the impression of being a ‘gets it done’ person
  • Avoid being a storyteller and don’t try to oversell
  • Avoid being too verbose

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Misha is

  • Conviction around the impact matters the most to them, followed by a sense of achievement and ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Misha

  • If they are not convinced, they will say no without any hesitation.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Misha move?

  • They can take decisions very fast if you manage to convince them.
  • Can Misha take some risk or not?

  • The risks don’t matter much to them.

You And Misha

Personality Compatibility


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