#159 Clay Magouryk - SVP of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Today we are talking to Clay Magouryk, the SVP of Engineering at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. And we discuss their move into the cloud infrastructure space, how responsibilities change as an organization matures, and attracting top talent with interesting problems and an audacious mission.

All of this, right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast

Clay Magouyrk is senior vice president of engineering for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. He is responsible for engineering and technical operations for Oracle’s enterprise-focused infrastructure-as-as-service (IaaS) platform and focuses on service delivery for an expanding product portfolio including compute, storage, networking, edge, and containers.

Magouyrk is a founding team member of Oracle’s cloud engineering development center in Seattle, tasked with building and deploying Oracle’s next-generation cloud infrastructure. He now leads a team of thousands of cloud engineers focused on supporting customers’ most mission-critical workloads via best-of-breed products and solutions.

Prior to joining Oracle in 2014, Magouyrk spent four years as a senior engineer at Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Before that, he spent two years at Hilton Hotels in engineering. His experience has been focused on highly secure, reliable, performance-based systems. Magouyrk holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Memphis.

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