Zia Mohammad is a product leader with 10+ years building and scaling customer-facing platforms across AI, quantum computing, and mission-critical cloud infrastructure. At AWS he drives roadmap and security for Amazon ECR, a global backbone handling billions of container images for tens of millions of developers and most Fortune 100 enterprises across ~38 regions. Previously he owned multi-year product and monetization strategy for Amazon Braket and led multilingual NLP and AI portfolios at IBM Watson, pairing commercialization of early quantum runtimes with pragmatic revenue and pricing decisions. He also brings fintech platform experience from Chime, teaches mid-career product managers at BrainStation, serves on the founding board of the Science Diplomacy Grid, and holds patents in AI and quantum applications. Unusually for a product leader, his academic background spans electrical engineering, cognitive neuroscience, and archaeology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to responsible, public-impact technology.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA) Archaeology of the Classical, Master of Arts (MA) Archaeology of the Classical at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Certificate CORe: Credential of Readiness, Certificate CORe: Credential of Readiness at Harvard Business School Online
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The Ohio State University
Think 2018 Lab Session: Watson Assistant + Watson Language Translator to create a multilingual chatbot
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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