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Vikas Kakkar

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Leader of Solutions Architecture at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
📍 Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Vikas Kakkar is the Head of Solutions Architecture for AWS Canadas SMB and Commercial Sales, leading 43 builders. A strategic leader with over 25 years of experience, he focuses on AI-driven cloud transformation and has a background in engineering and foreign trade.

Colleagues describe him as extremely knowledgeable, professional, and customer-centric, with a talent for explaining complex technical concepts in an easily digestible way. He is passionate about sharing his expertise, authoring a technical blog in his personal time.

Unique fact: Vikas created and scaled the "S3 Days" program from a local Toronto meetup into a successful, Canada-wide enablement series for AWS.

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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
Leader of Solutions Architecture
Job Level
Senior
Location
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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Building Tech Teams
He leads a team of 43 builders and expresses pride in developing talent, having advanced 25 Solutions Architects to senior roles within two years.
Cloud Business Growth
His team delivered over a quarter billion in ARR in FY25, achieving over 100% attainment with 19. 5% year-over-year growth for AWS Canada.
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Career

Work history

3-2024
Leader of Solutions Architecture
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
11-2022 - 3-2024
GTM Storage Specialist | Canada at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
1-2021 - 11-2022
Leader Solutions Architect (WWSO Storage)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
8-2018 - 12-2020
Principal Systems Consultant (Object Storage) & Cloud Adviser at Dell Technologies Canada
Dell Technologies
10-2017 - 8-2018
Advisory Systems Consultant (Software Defined Solutions) - Object Storage Specialist
Dell Technologies
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Education
2009 - 2011
Exec Post Graduate Diploma
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
1995 - 1999
Bachelor of Engineering
Nagpur University
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