Jay Kantaria

Jay Kantaria serves as the Director of Cloud Operations & Engineering at Rhapsody, where responsibilities include leading a global team across four sites and managing relationships with AWS to optimize cloud utilization and implement best practices in cloud FinOps. Prior to Rhapsody, Jay held positions as Lead DevOps Architect/Consultant at GeoLogics Corporation for Raytheon, Senior Technical Manager of DevOps at Verizon, and Global DevOps, SCM & Infrastructure Manager at Tektronix Communications. Early career experiences include managerial roles in configuration management and engineering at XO Communications, covering a range of technical disciplines. Jay holds a Master of Science in Software Engineering from Southern Methodist University and a Bachelor of Science from California State University - East Bay.