As we gear up forward of AWS re:Invent 2024, we’re thrilled to announce our ultimate cohort of recent AWS Heroes! These people exemplify experience and dedication to leveraging AWS applied sciences and sharing data. Their contributions to the AWS neighborhood are significantly appreciated, and at present we’re excited to rejoice them.
Ayyanar Jeyakrishnan – Bengaluru, India
Machine Studying Hero Ayyanar Jeyakrishnan is a Principal Engineer/Government Director at Wells Fargo. He’s a seasoned machine studying and cloud fanatic with a powerful concentrate on AWS applied sciences. Ayyanar’s experience contains creating information platforms and architecting DevOps and MLOps options to streamline the deployment and administration of machine studying fashions on AWS. He’s enthusiastic about sharing his data and incessantly speaks at trade occasions and neighborhood meetups on MLOps, generative AI, and machine studying purposes.
Dzenana Dzevlan – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Group Hero Dzenana Dzevlan is a co-founder and Technical Supervisor at allOps Options, an APN Associate firm. She is an professional apply lecturer at Worldwide Burch 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 mentors college students in cloud and AI options. A devoted advocate for variety in tech, she champions ladies’s inclusion and empowerment within the trade. Via talking engagements and mentorship packages, Dzenana evokes and equips the subsequent 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 previous eight years specializing in AWS Cloud networking, safety, and governance. Because the chief of the AWS Malta Person Group and organizer of the Malta AWS Group Day, Kenneth is enthusiastic about fostering data and studying amongst cloud fans and professionals. He’s additionally a frequent speaker at each native and worldwide occasions, together with AWS Cloud Days, AWS Summits, and AWS Group Days throughout a number of nations.
Marcin Sodkiewicz – Wrocław, Poland
Serverless Hero Marcin Sodkiewicz is a Principal Software program Engineer at Ryanair. He has been there since 2016 and was a part of a large technological leap, from the information heart into the cloud and groups constructing with a serverless-first mindset. Over these years, he has seen and realized quite a bit—particularly the distinction the cloud makes in rapidly delivering high-quality, scalable, dependable, and worthwhile software program. The profitability side is tremendous essential to him, as he works at a low-cost airline with a mission of “making journey reasonably priced for everybody,” which matches his curiosity in constructing cost-optimized options that convey aggressive benefits. Marcin blogs and talks about AWS by the lens of his favourite subjects: event-driven and serverless architectures, resiliency, value optimization, and observability. Moreover, he is without doubt one of the organizers of the AWS Person Group in his metropolis – Wrocław.
Stephen Sennett – Melbourne, Australia
Group Hero Stephen Sennett is a Senior Marketing consultant 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 between 2021 and 2024, performing as a mentor to others within the AWS neighborhood, and serving as a public talking coach for upcoming thought leaders by the AWS New Voices program. He’s an skilled keynote speaker, delivering classes at AWS Group Days, AWS Summits, and different tech conferences around the globe. Outdoors of his skilled function, Stephen is an energetic volunteer emergency administration officer, and non-profit board director.
Vadym Kazulkin – Bonn, Germany
Serverless Hero Vadym Kazulkin is Head of Improvement at ip.labs GmbH (a Fujifilm subsidiary), and brings over 20 years of Java ecosystem experience. His present focus is designing and implementing extremely scalable AWS Cloud purposes, with a ardour for 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. He values neighborhood engagement, each for sharing insights and steady studying in cloud and serverless applied sciences.
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— Taylor