Shamayel M. Farooqui is a serial innovator who thrives on building creative solutions to solve complex IT problems. He has successfully led IT teams which specialize in enabling DevOps within an organization by the using the power of automation. The teams he managed have been responsible for developing automation for business process automation and cloud management, including application migration on public cloud. He designed an innovation framework to simplify the process of driving innovation in an enterprise and has been at the helm of introducing a disruptive approach for modernizing IT processes and to ensure business is optimized by using these practices. He is well versed with cloud technology and is at the forefront of the adoption of IAAS and PAAS within his organization. Shamayel has also designed and architected the automation framework for implementing process automation solutions. He has delivered Process Automation as a Service for his organization, which was used to drive multiple optimization initiatives successfully to reduce operational costs and risks for IT. He has been a champion for running lean IT and has played the role of a mentor by coaching many IT engineers on automation and innovation practices. Shamayel has a master’s degree in computer science from Loyola University, Chicago and a certification from MIT’s Sloan Executive Education, titled “Innovation of Products and Services: MIT’s Approach to Design Thinking”.