Maran Chandrasekaran is a Solutions Architecture Leader for FSI Banking and Lending at Amazon Web Services, where he advises Fortune 500 financial institutions on cloud transformation, AI adoption, and platform modernization in highly regulated environments.

With over 15 years leading platform engineering across banking, payments, and investment management — including roles at Capital One and USAA — Maran has delivered multimillion-dollar modernization initiatives replacing batch processes with real-time decision intelligence. He established a Machine Learning Center of Excellence that drove production adoption of 200+ models processing over 10 billion records daily, with strict compliance and risk controls.

He has led global cloud migrations, built self-service data platforms, and architected predictive analytics solutions for major sports organizations that contributed to championship-level performance.

A recognized thought leader, Maran authors technical publications on enterprise AI and holds advanced AWS certifications in Solutions Architecture, Machine Learning, and Security.