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“interacted with the best and brightest in the cloud, data centre, and hyperscale space and worked with cloud, design, strategy, branding, and marketing teams to help our industry build a sustainable digital future”.

Kleyman was also at ATSG (MTM Technologies) for nearly a decade from 2011-2021, where he held multiple roles including Advisory Board Member and Chief Technology Officer, working to develop the transformational technologies and digital infrastructure.

From 2018-2019 he was Director of Technology Solutions at EPAM Systems, where he worked with digital innovation and engineering teams delivering solutions around DevOps, AI, ML, Blockchain, Robotics Process Automation (RPA), advanced cloud architecture, and more.

“My role allowed me to touch on a variety of advanced technologies to help organisations create competitive advantages, impact their users positively, and leverage new solutions and tools to their utmost capacity,” Kleyman recounts.

“Leaving EPAM was one of the most challenging career decisions ever; I'll always be an EPAM fan.”

Technological creativity, starting at the roots

“I came to the USA in the ‘90s as a political asylum refugee, fleeing the now-former USSR. I was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and I still vividly remember my life as a young person in Soviet Ukraine.”

Kleyman also recounts how his brother would participate in communications competitions, and how this eventually laid the foundations for his own telecoms career.

“My brother used the telegraph; he had all the tools, the headphones, the telegraph switch, and I watched him while he competed, rapidly moving his fingers to send messages to others across the country.”

“I heard the beeps and sounds of an incoming transmission and worked with my brother to feverishly write down what the other person was saying. It marked the start of my fascination with communication and bringing people closer together with technology”.

Inspiring technology’s pioneers of tomorrow Kleyman’s passion for education and the future of technology is clear, right from the outset.

“My proudest achievement has been the work I’ve been doing with students as part of a Capstone Project initiative with the Infrastructure Masons,” he says.

“It has been a lifelong dream of mine to be an educator, and with this Capstone programme, I can meaningfully give back to society.” The programme encourages more diversity to join the industry, with patrons including Kleyman working with students from multiple disciplines and backgrounds.

“I work with electrical, mechanical, civil, and computer engineers to show how their studies directly tie into the data centre industry”.

His work with Infrastructure Masons was formally recognised when he received the 2020 IM100 Award and the 2021 iMasons Education Champion Award for his work with numerous HBCUs and for helping diversify the digital infrastructure talent pool.