Giovanni Abreu · Principal, Karaya Group
You work with Giovanni, start to finish.
Karaya Group is the independent advisory practice of Giovanni Abreu, for government and enterprise IT: IT modernization and cloud migration, compliance readiness, program delivery, and mergers and acquisitions. Experience built at Amazon Web Services, Epic Games, and Humana.
What Giovanni brings.
More than ten years leading programs at Amazon Web Services, Epic Games, Humana, and high-growth cloud providers: acquisitions from diligence to Day 1, modernization, compliance, portfolio governance, and recovery.
The career started in 2016 on the operations floor, as a network operations intern and technician, and worked up to leading programs for C-level executives. The advice comes from someone who has done the work at every level of it.
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Mergers and acquisitions, end to end
- Diligence, integration planning, contract and vendor transitions, migration sequencing, and Day 1 readiness, with the budget owned through close.
- Repeatable playbooks that bring acquired companies onto shared cloud, SaaS, and operating models. Built at Epic Games.
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Modernization and cloud migration
- Moving legacy systems and regulated workloads to cloud and SaaS, sequenced so operations keep running.
- Built at Amazon Web Services, Epic Games, and Humana, including regulated healthcare workloads.
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Governance, compliance, and launch readiness
- Launch gates, readiness reviews, acceptance criteria, and reporting that hold up to audit and to the board.
- Built across large-scale launches at Amazon Web Services and delivery frameworks at high-growth cloud providers.
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Program recovery and executive escalation
- Taking over at-risk programs, resetting the plan, and protecting customer commitments when something breaks late.
- Serving as the escalation path to the CEO and C-suite, and making the trade-offs explicit.
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Portfolio and team leadership
- Portfolio governance across planning, budgets, prioritization, and resourcing.
- Building and leading cross-functional teams of program managers, planners, and engineers.
IT modernization
The sequencing, platform, and cloud migration choices behind moving off legacy systems.
Compliance readiness
Readiness for NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, and FedRAMP, before the assessor arrives.
Program delivery
Governance, recovery, and federal acquisition planning for programs that have to land.
Mergers and acquisitions
Diligence, integration planning, Day 1 readiness, and contract and vendor transitions through close.
How the work is held.
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Independence
No products to resell, no staff to place, no vendor to favor.
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Directness
You get the recommendation and the reasoning, not a hedge.
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Evidence
Each claim is tied to something you can check.
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Scope discipline
Each engagement is bounded and ends when you have the recommendation.
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Confidentiality
Your information stays separate from every other engagement.
Independence and personal capacity.
Karaya Group is Giovanni's independent practice, run in a personal capacity. Nothing on this site speaks for any other organization.
A conflict check runs before any detail is shared, so you learn early if the work cannot be taken. An NDA is available before deeper material changes hands.
Start a conversation.
Tell Giovanni what you are working on. He replies personally within two business days.
Prefer email? Write to contact@karaya.group.