Naga Surya Teja Thallam – Cloud & AI Infrastructure Leader | Driving Enterprise-Scale Innovation Surya Thallam is a seasoned cloud and AI infrastructure leader with a proven track record of transforming enterprise-scale systems across industry giants like Salesforce, Cisco, and Seagate. His career is defined by a passion for building resilient, scalable, and intelligent infrastructure solutions that power today’s digital economy. At Salesforce, Surya has been a key force behind the expansion and optimization of global production infrastructure. He led the design and deployment of Agentforce, an AI-driven platform that accelerates automation and enhances operational intelligence. His efforts in capacity planning, monitoring, and multi-region scalability have enabled seamless go-live transitions across more than 10 global regions, ensuring high availability, security, and cost efficiency across both physical data centers and cloud substrates (AWS, Alibaba, GCP, Azure). During his tenure at Cisco, Surya managed AWS infrastructure supporting over 2,000 customers. He spearheaded cloud architecture and automation strategies that delivered over $3 million in cost savings, while also ensuring performance, compliance, and secure cloud operations. As a scrum leader, he has driven agile development practices, DevOps pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code automation to enhance delivery velocity and reliability. Earlier at Seagate, Surya led large-scale big data initiatives, managing a 160-node Hadoop production cluster and supporting enterprise analytics workloads. His deep expertise in Hadoop, Spark, Hive, and Python enabled seamless migrations to the cloud and optimization of high-performance data workflows. With 28 awards for technical excellence and leadership, Surya is recognized as a thought leader in AI infrastructure, cloud transformation, and big data strategy. He continues to push the boundaries of innovation, enabling enterprises to harness the full power of modern cloud and AI ecosystems.