Creative (10 granted patents, five pending), awards-winning, hands-on, customer-centric executive with a proven track record of delivering market-leading software products. Over 20 years of expertise in software architecture and design, of which 12+ years are in engineering leadership with multi-million-dollar budget management. Many of these products have defined and conquered new market niches in a highly competitive space.My entire approach is steeped in deeply understanding customers and the evolving market landscape. Collaborating with product teams, I align features with market needs, achieving substantial traction, customer loyalty, and revenue/profitability growth.At Dell, I led groundbreaking streaming data and analytics platform (SDP) development, enabling real-time and historical data ingestion, storage, and analytics from micro-edge-to-edge-to core/cloud. This plug-in architecture created a significant differentiator, garnering an unparalleled market response.Currently, as Head of Cloud Services at Intel, I built a high-performing engineering organization from scratch in just months. My team’s mission is to build an Intel Developer Cloud providing pre-release Intel hardware-as-software-cloud services (a mini-AWS) for enterprise customers, public cloud providers, external/internal developers, and students. Collaboration across functional teams made rapid go-to-market strategies real. The challenge was getting this all done from the ground up in just one year and getting it right.At AWS, as an L7 Software Engineering Manager, I led teams building distributed software infrastructure, dev tools, performance benchmarking, cloud monitoring, testing, DevOps, ops excellence, and platform quality. Additionally, I managed next-gen log-structured replication for distributed cloud storage systems.Throughout my career, I spearheaded critical initiatives differentiating my teams and companies in the hyper-competitive software space. Proficient in assembling performative teams from scratch, my teams consistently outperform the competition. My approach to quickly mobilizing highly capable teams —often building them from the ground up—has helped leapfrogging the competition. My approach to getting the best out of my teams springs from giving them a compelling mission and empowering them to exceed their perceived limits.As a frequent edge computing and leadership blogger, my postings are available at: https://ashishkumarb.medium.com/. I have also spoken at industry conferences, including Kubecon & cdCon, sharing insights & expertise