Taimur Rashid is Chief Business Development Officer at Redis Labs, where he is leading corporate strategy and emerging businesses with a specific focus on AI/ML. Before Redis Labs, Taimur was General Manager and Head of Customer Success at Microsoft, where he helped build one of the largest cloud-focused customer success organizations in the industry. He led the Cloud Solution Architects focused on Data, Analytics, and AI. Prior to Microsoft, he was responsible global business and market development at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for ~10 years where he was one of the founding members of the AWS Developer Relations team, and scaled the business to $25B in ARR. He holds a bachelorÕs in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. Bellevue, WA is home for Taimur, where he lives with his wife and three boys, and spends his time cross-training, hiking, biking, and reading books on business strategy.