DBT Bureau
Pune, 30 Sep 2025
CrowdStrike announced the appointment of Amjad Hussain as chief resilience officer. Reporting directly to CEO and founder George Kurtz, Hussain will help shape how CrowdStrike advances resilience across its platform and business, accelerating CrowdStrike’s defining principles of operational excellence and reliability across the company. He will also work across the cybersecurity ecosystem to raise the bar for resilience and help establish new industry best practices.
“What defines CrowdStrike is how we execute relentlessly, transparently, and with resilience at the core,” said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. “Amjad’s leadership will accelerate that focus, advancing how we embed resilience into every layer of our technology and operations.”
With more than 25 years of experience driving engineering and operational excellence at global technology leaders, Hussain joins CrowdStrike as the company leads cybersecurity into the agentic era. His role expands on CrowdStrike’s ongoing work to deliver AI-powered security with uncompromising performance and reliability.
Hussain was most recently chief technology officer at Vanilla, where he led R&D across engineering, product, design, AI, security, and IT. He previously served as director and general manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), building and driving operational excellence across multiple products like AWS CloudFormation, AWS Systems Manager, and Amazon EC2. Hussain also held engineering leadership roles at Microsoft across Azure, Windows Server, and Bing.
“CrowdStrike is trusted to secure some of the most mission-critical environments in the world,” said Hussain. “That responsibility drives relentless innovation in how the company designs for performance and scale, and I’m honored to play a role in advancing operational excellence and reliability as defining principles of the platform and the company.”
