Arunkumar Amaran is a Senior Technology Leader with over 20 years of experience building enterprise-scale, AI-driven, cloud-native data platforms across retail and industrial technology domains. As Technology Manager at Macy's Systems & Technology, he leads the Unified Data Foundation — a GCP-native platform powering real-time data pipelines across Merchandising, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, and Customer domains — and pioneers agentic AI frameworks that automate code generation and enterprise modernization at scale.
A Senior Member of the IEEE and published researcher in Responsible AI, Generative AI, and Streaming Data Architecture, Arunkumar has presented at IEEE international conferences, reviewed 80+ technical papers globally, and serves on Program Committees across four international conferences. He is passionate about building trustworthy, human-centric AI systems that balance innovation with accountability.