About
I’m Niv Raz. I’ve spent more than 25 years in technology, most of them as a CTO, including roles at a large financial institution and at VMware Israel. Today I’m a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, working with enterprise customers on generative AI and Amazon Bedrock.
Most of my work happens between two conversations. Engineers are figuring out what the models can actually do. Executives are deciding what it’s worth. My job is to connect the two.
This blog is where I write down what I see in the field:
- What separates AI projects that ship from the ones that stay demos
- Where agentic AI creates real leverage, and where it’s noise
- Architecture decisions and what they cost the business
- Lessons from years in the CTO seat
I founded the CTO Corner Podcast and CTO communities, and I speak regularly on AI and technology leadership. I write in English and Hebrew.
Based in the New York area. The best way to reach me is LinkedIn.
The views here are my own and don’t represent Amazon or AWS or VMware or IBM or My wife.