As we put together for AWS re:Invent 2024, we’re delighted to announce our ultimate cohort of recent AWS Heroes! These people exemplify the experience and dedication to leveraging AWS applied sciences and sharing data. Your contributions to the AWS group are significantly appreciated and we’re excited to rejoice them at the moment.
Ayyanar Jeyakrishnan – Bangalore, India
Machine Studying Hero Ayyanar Jeyakrishnan is a Principal Engineer/CEO at Wells Fargo. He’s an skilled machine studying and cloud fanatic, with a robust deal with AWS applied sciences. Ayyanar’s expertise consists of constructing knowledge platforms and architecting DevOps and MLOps options to optimize the deployment and administration of machine studying fashions on AWS. He’s keen about sharing his data and steadily speaks at business occasions and group conferences about MLOps, generative AI, and machine studying purposes.
Dzenana Dzevlan – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Group hero Dzenana Dzevlan He’s the co-founder and CTO of allOps Options, an APN companion firm. She is an professional observe professor at Burch Worldwide College and actively shares her data in DevOps, generative AI, and different rising applied sciences. Dzenana’s ardour for know-how extends past the classroom, as she actively advises college students on AI and cloud options. A devoted advocate for variety in know-how, she advocates for the inclusion and empowerment of ladies within the business. By way of talking engagements and mentoring applications, Dzenana evokes and equips the following technology of IT and cloud professionals.
Kenneth Attard – Valletta, Malta
Group hero Kenneth Attard is an Enterprise Architect at Betsson Group in Malta with over 20 years of technical expertise, together with the final eight years specializing in AWS Cloud Networking, Safety and Governance. Because the AWS Malta Person Group Chief and organizer of the Malta AWS Group Day, Kenneth is keen about fostering data and studying amongst cloud lovers and professionals. He’s additionally a frequent speaker at native and worldwide occasions, together with AWS Cloud Days, AWS Summits, and AWS Group Days in a number of nations.
Marcin Sodkiewicz – Wroclaw, Poland
Serverless Hero Marcin Sodkiewicz He’s a Principal Software program Engineer at Ryanair. It has been there since 2016 and was a part of an enormous technological leap, from the info heart to the cloud and constructing groups with a serverless mindset. Over these years, he is seen and realized lots, particularly the distinction the cloud makes in shortly delivering high-quality, scalable, dependable, and cost-effective software program. The profitability side is essential to him as he works at a low-cost airline with the mission of “making journey reasonably priced for everybody”, which coincides together with his curiosity in creating cost-optimized options that present advantages aggressive. Marcin blogs and talks about AWS by way of the lens of his favourite subjects: serverless and event-driven architectures, resiliency, value optimization, and observability. Moreover, he is among the organizers of the AWS consumer group in his metropolis, Wrocław.
Stephen Sennett – Melbourne, Australia
Group hero Stephen Sennett is a senior guide at Kinetic IT in Australia. As an skilled cloud technologist, he has labored with AWS for over a decade as an architect, guide, engineer, and educator. Stephen was a member of the AWS Group Builders program from 2021 to 2024, performing as a mentor to different members of the AWS group, and serving as a public talking coach for future thought leaders by way of the AWS New Voices program. He’s an skilled keynote speaker, delivering periods at AWS Group Days, AWS Summits, and different know-how conferences world wide. Exterior of his skilled function, Stephen is an lively volunteer emergency administration officer and non-profit board director.
Vadym Kazulkin – Bonn, Germany
Serverless Hero Vadym Kazulkin He’s Head of Growth at ip.labs GmbH (a subsidiary of Fujifilm) and brings greater than 20 years of expertise within the Java ecosystem. His present focus is designing and deploying extremely scalable AWS cloud purposes, and he’s keen about serverless structure. As co-organizer of the Java Person Group Bonn Meetup, Vadym actively shares his data at native and worldwide occasions, together with AWS and Java meetups, conferences, AWS Group Days, and ServerlessDays. Values group participation, each for data sharing and steady studying in cloud and serverless applied sciences.
Extra data
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