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Michael Rishi Forrester

Infrastructure. Governance.

Thirty years in operations, DevOps and cloud infrastructure, across four waves: cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, and now AI. I lead the AI workforce transformation stream at Accenture LearnVantage, advising CIOs, CTOs and CISOs on putting agentic AI into production without losing control of it. Author of Agentic Covenants, built on one premise: guardrails enforced by the AI tool are bypassable, guardrails enforced by infrastructure are not. I ship the reference implementations, not just the strategy.

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Where the thirty years went

  • 2026 – nowAccenture, AI Business Stream Lead, Leaders and OrganizationsLeads the AI workforce transformation stream within LearnVantage. Advises C-suite, security and engineering leadership on production AI adoption and governance.
  • 2023 – 2026KodeKloud, Principal Training ArchitectCurriculum strategy across AWS, CNCF and AI ecosystems. Quality gate for all curricula and trainers.
  • 2019 – 2025The Performant Professionals, Founder and PrincipalDistributed consultancy delivering transformation and technical enablement to enterprise clients in insurance, banking, transportation, manufacturing and technology, staffed across India, the Philippines, California and Atlanta.2022 – 2023 Amazon Web Services, Certification Technical Architect2020 – 2021 ThoughtWorks, Senior Principal Consultant and Platform Architect2019 – 2023 Web Age Solutions, DevOps and CloudOps Architect
  • 2018 – 2019Honeywell, Principal Digital Architect, Connected EnterprisesGlobal architect for the Sentience and Forge IoT platform. Primary architectural advisor to the CTO and CEO across $2B+ in initiatives.
  • 2017 – 2018IgnitionOne, VP of Technical OperationsScaled a Fortune 500 marketing platform from millions to billions of daily transactions.
  • 2014 – 2016Inform, Inc, Director of Engineering Operations and DevOpsEleven direct reports across infrastructure, support and data services.
  • 2013 – 2014inBloom, Senior Manager of IT Operations
  • 2011 – 2013WorthPoint, Director of Infrastructure and OperationsIncluding a full data-centre-to-AWS migration.
  • 1996 – 2012Majere Enterprises, Founder and OwnerA twenty-person consultancy in infrastructure, CI/CD and team performance.

Current certifications

19 current, generated from Credly. Expired credentials are not listed.