About

Alexey Bokov is a Cloud Strategist at Splunk with extensive experience in Microsoft Azure, AWS, and C++ development. With over 9 years of experience as an Azure Enterprise Architect and Technical Evangelist, Alexey has led the architecture design and development efforts for top tier enterprise customers worldwide, serving as a trusted technical and business advisor. He has also managed customers and ISV pipelines based on area and industry, including Security ISV, Travel & Transportation, and Global SIs. Alexey's skills in leadership and technical excellence have been honed over his 18.86 years of relevant experience. He has mentored and advised on business models, product vision, and strategy for pre-seed startups, and coached at Skolkovo startup school. He is also a long-time reviewer as a subject matter expert in cloud computing for Packt Publishing and has authored 8 books on Azure and one book on GCP. In addition to his extensive experience, Alexey holds multiple certifications, including Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Solutions Expert: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, and 14 more. He has also received awards for driving revenue and cloud adoption, including the Microsoft Russia Q4 Hero (2014) and CEE Sharefighter (2013). Alexey has worked for top companies such as Microsoft and LG Electronics, where he served as a Principal Architect and Project Manager. He was responsible for managing and leading 7 geo-distributed teams with a budget of $1.5M, building up an end-customer facing cloud storage application from scratch, and developing a product deployed and used as core cloud storage technology on LG. Alexey holds a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI and a Middle School Diploma from Middle School 510 in Moscow. His tech stack includes Azure, AWS, Senior Software Engineer, product manager, DevOps, GCP, Backend, infra, Web, Search, Frontend, and Android.