Pooya Navid
Senior Mechanical Engineer Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Pooya Navid is a seasoned Mechanical Engineer with 14 years of experience, including 7+ years in the data center industry, specializing in advanced cooling solutions for hyperscale and colocation facilities. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), he develops high-performance, energy-efficient mechanical systems that support high-density and AI workloads.
Previously at Nortek Data Center Cooling, Pooya led the design of custom CDUs and developed numerical models to optimize PUE and WUE. He holds two M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and certifications in data center cooling, bridging research and industry to deliver innovative, scalable, and sustainable thermal solutions.
Seminars
Thursday 19th February 2026
Panel: Strengthening Stakeholder Communication to Bridge Gaps Between Design Intent & Operational Reality
3:30 pm
- Facilitating dialogue between rack manufacturers, infrastructure engineers and operations teams to ensure mechanical designs align with server/rack requirements
- Examining the lack of full-system integration ownership across vendors, designers and contractors, and how to prevent fragmented integrations and misalignment between components
- Highlighting breakdowns at commissioning handoff to identify where design plans often crash with operational realities to prevent issues early
- Building industry-wide collaboration frameworks to support rapid growth, knowledge transfer and alignment on evolving workload and cooling demands
