Arunkumar Amaran is a senior technology leader with over 20 years of experience in architecting and delivering enterprise-scale data and AI platforms. Currently a technology manager at Macy’s Systems & Technology, he leads initiatives in cloud-native data engineering, AI-driven analytics, and enterprise data architecture on GCP. His work focuses on building unified data foundations that enable scalable, governed, and real-time data access across business domains. Arunkumar is a senior member of IEEE and actively contributes as a Technical Program Committee member and reviewer for international conferences in AI, data engineering, and emerging technologies.