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Roger Barga

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Senior Vice President, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure at Oracle
📍 Seattle, Washington, United States

Roger Barga is the Senior VP of AI & ML at Oracle Cloud, with a distinguished career leading cloud, data, and machine learning businesses at Microsoft and AWS. He holds a PhD from Oregon Health & Science University and is described by colleagues as a strong technical mentor with clarity and humility.

Fueled by a passion for solving complex problems with data, he transitioned from biomedical sciences to a career in technology. He is dedicated to making data science accessible, having co-authored a book on the subject and serving as an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington.

Unique fact: He founded and led the AWS Robotics and Autonomous Services division, launching AWS RoboMaker to scale intelligent robotics development.

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Experience
34 Years
Current Role
Senior Vice President, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
Personality Overview

How Roger shows up

Risk-Accepting
Impact-Oriented
Conviction Driven

They measure a product on its merit but can be influenced by strong testimonials. They respond well to objective pitches but also attach some value to relationships. They usually prefer to drive the conversation.

Priorities

Topics Roger cares about

Enterprise AI/ML
His role at Oracle is centered on helping CIOs and CTOs modernize their data foundations and safely deploy machine learning at enterprise scale.
Cloud Data Platforms
He has a history of building and scaling foundational cloud services, including real-time data streaming with Amazon Kinesis and database services at Microsoft Azure.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Senior Vice President, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle
7-2022 - 2-2025
Vice President and General Manager, Azure Database for MySQL
Microsoft
2-2021 - 7-2022
GM, AWS AI/ML, Computer Vision & AI Services, AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
3-2018 - 2-2021
General Manager, AWS Robotics and Autonomous Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
9-2014 - 3-2018
General Manager & Director of Development, Kinesis
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
In the press

Media appearances

Why Oracle's AI chief builds AI internally first. Featured in FastForward (BoldStart VC)
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Education
1992 - 1996
PhD
Oregon Health & Science University
1985 - 1987
Science MSc
University of Idaho
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Dominance (D)

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