Shekhar Shetty

Shekhar Shetty is an accomplished Principal Cloud Architect at SAS since July 2017, specializing in cloud strategy, adoption, and operations of both legacy and new cloud-native offerings. Prior to SAS, Shekhar served as a Technical Solutions Architect at IBM, where responsibilities included designing client-specific solutions utilizing Watson and Bluemix, ensuring compliance with security policies, and guiding deployment teams. Experience also includes a role as Technical Manager at Accenture Technology Consulting, focusing on data center transformation and cloud enablement, and as an IT Architect at IBM Global Services managing application migrations. Early career experience includes a position as Senior Systems Engineer at the Los Angeles Times, where system optimizations were key. Shekhar holds a degree from the University of Mumbai.