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Leadership at AWS
Leadership
Jeff Barr
VP, AWS EvangelismJeff Barr enjoys sharing the AWS story to audiences all over the world. Jeff has been in the software business since he was 16 and has worked at startups, big companies, and even had his own consulting practice. Jeff brings a lot of energy, passion, and experience to the table while he focuses on technical evangelism to get developers excited about new technologies. Jeff is a geek at heart and never minds getting his hands dirty.
Leadership
Tod Golding
Principal Partner Solutions ArchitectAs a Senior Principal Solutions Architect at AWS focused on SaaS application architecture, Tod spent the last 7 years immersed in cloud-optimized application design and architecture. He has more than 20 years of experience as an architect and developer at startups and tech giants (AWS, eBay, and Microsoft). In addition to speaking at tech conferences, Tod authored Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures (November 2023) and Professional .NET 2.0 Generics.
Leadership
Rima Olinger
Director, NAMER SI PartnersRima Olinger is the North America Lead for the AWS Partner Development organization. She is responsible for driving the strategy and growth of the AWS SI Partner organization in North America. Prior to this, Rima led the global VMware alliance at AWS. Before AWS, Rima was the Global Vice President of Distribution and Mid-Market for Avaya, where she led the effort to optimize the distribution landscape globally and laid the foundation for an ecosystem for Avaya’s transformation to a software vendor.
Leadership
Steve Seymour
WW Tech Leader, NetworkingSteve is the Worldwide Tech Leader for Networking at AWS and a Senior Principal in the AWS Solutions Architecture team. He leads a global community of people who use their networking expertise to help customers use AWS networking technologies to meet and exceed their business requirements. Steve is an author of the AWS Certified Advanced Networking Official Study Guide and during re:Invent also works as part of the Event Networking team—helping deliver the network infrastructure supporting the event.
Generative AI experts
Generative AI experts
Yuri Chamarelli
IoT Specialist Solutions ArchitectYuri Chamarelli is an AWS Internet of Things (IoT) and Serverless Specialist Solutions Architect based in Denver, Colorado. As an IoT specialist, he focuses on helping customers build with AWS IoT services and accomplish diverse business outcomes. He recently added generative AI to his focus. With a background in controls engineering and over 10 years of experience in IT/OT systems, he has helped several customers with industrial transformation and industrial automation projects throughout many industries.
Generative AI experts
Brooke Jamieson
Senior Developer AdvocateBrooke is a Senior Developer Advocate for AWS, based in New York City. They have degrees in mathematics and data engineering, and they combine this with professional experience in AI/ML to design, develop, deploy, and nurture intelligent solutions in generative AI. Outside of their “day job,” Brooke is a keynote speaker at technical conferences around the world. They are passionate about promoting STEM pathways to young women and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Generative AI experts
Mary Law
Sr. Manager, Data Portfolio Solutions Architect, President of AWS She BuildsA technologist and speaker, Mary Law is the APJ Data Enablement Lead at AWS. Mary supports customers and partners with data foundations and strategy so they can innovate with generative AI to accomplish more. As a leader, Mary understands that people matter. As President of AWS She Builds, she is passionate about empowering women and underrepresented people to start, pivot, or advance their careers in the cloud tech industry through enablement and mentorship.
Generative AI experts
Dan Ochs
Generative AI Senior Leader, Solutions ArchitectDan has over 20 years of experience in customer-centric technology roles, and he is tasked with innovating on behalf of his clients and their needs. He has most recently focused on generative AI, talking to customers, showing demonstrations, and thinking about the art of the possible. He’s specifically interested in open source UIs along with text-to-image generators and voice conversations with LLMs, and he is hopeful for a text-to-3D foundation model to come out soon. Let’s talk about generative AI!
Generative AI experts
Lukasz Panusz
Principal Solutions Architect Team LeadLukasz is a highly innovative technology leader and visionary. Lukasz is a Principal SA Team Lead for the EMEA CEE SMB market and ex-Chief Solutions Architect and CTO. Lukasz serves as a high-level strategic executive and hands-on tactical consultant to enterprises and SMEs in finance, travel, retail, ecommerce, hospitality, entertainment, defense, and more. Lukasz creates high-level partnerships around sustainable financial growth and competitive market positioning with the added advantages of generative AI.
Generative AI experts
Imtiaz (Taz) Sayed
Head of Solutions Architecture Community, AWS Data AnalyticsImtiaz (Taz) Sayed leads the Worldwide Data Analytics Solutions Architecture community at AWS. He is a Principal Solutions Architect and works with customers engaging in thought leadership, strategic partnerships, and specialized guidance on building modern data applications including generative AI. He is a published author and a technologist with over 22 years of experience on distributed architectures, data analytics, application service mesh, messaging systems, databases, and cloud migrations.
AWS solutions architects
Solutions architects
Tom Adamski
Principal Solutions Architect, NetworkingTom is a Principal Solutions Architect specializing in networking. He has over 15 years of experience building networks and security solutions across various industries—from telcos and ISPs to small startups. He has spent the last 6 years helping AWS customers build their network environments in the AWS Cloud. In his spare time, Tom can be found hunting for waves to surf around the California coast.
Solutions architects
Fiona Armada
Solutions ArchitectFiona is an expert in networking, cloud solutions, enterprise architecture, and IT transformations. As a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS in London, she has steered cloud strategy and adoption with the UK’s largest manufacturing enterprise customers. She plays a vital role in advising on cloud adoption, designing enterprise cloud solutions, and overseeing system migrations to AWS. Fiona is passionate about inclusion and diversity and increasing gender diversity in the field.
Solutions architects
Kenneth Hui
Service Solutions Architect LeaderKen is the Service Solutions Architect Leader for AWS Data Protection and the AWS Backup service. He has spent more than 20 years helping users and businesses with addressing their data resilience and data security challenges, on-premises and in the cloud.
Solutions architects
Alexandra Huides
Principal Networking Solutions ArchitectAlexandra Huides is a Principal Networking Specialist Solutions Architect supporting Strategic Accounts at Amazon Web Services. She focuses on helping customers with building and developing networking architectures for highly scalable and resilient AWS environments. Outside work, she is a licensed skipper and loves sailing, traveling, discovering new cultures, and reading.
Solutions architects
Jeremy Girven
Solutions ArchitectJeremy is a tenured IT professional with over 25 years of IT experience in a variety of industries. Jeremy has been with AWS for over 7 years in roles ranging from premium support, service team engineering, and solutions architecture. Jeremy is focused on helping customers integrate and bring their Microsoft technology investments to AWS. Jeremy’s depth areas are DevOps (AWS CloudFormation, AWS Systems Manager, and Terraform) on AWS, Active Directory, and the variety of Microsoft workloads running on AWS.
Solutions architects
Steph Gooch
Sr. Optimization Solutions ArchitectSteph is a Senior Optimization Solutions Architect in the AWS OPTICS team, where as a subject matter expert, she guides customers through ways to optimize their AWS spend. She also supports customers to develop cloud utilization, improve their financial processes, and learn about a range of topics. She is the host of a weekly Twitch show called The Keys to AWS Optimization and a successful blog author for AWS CFM blogs and the creator of the Optimization Data Lake in the AWS Well-Architected Labs.
Solutions architects
Francesco Marelli
Principal Solutions ArchitectAs a leader in the analytics SA team in Italy, Francesco has worked on EU-based projects for more than 25 years. He specializes in analytics for enterprise, startups, and ISVs. Armed with this knowledge, he can design optimized large-scale data platforms that form the basis for predictive advanced analytics and machine learning. He blogs for AWS Big Data and is a regular speaker. In his spare time, Francesco is passionate about music. He collects vinyls, plays bass and piano, and supports generative AI for the arts.
Solutions architects
Neel Mitra
Principal Solutions Architect, AWS Industry ProductsNeel is a Principal Solutions Architect with more than 19 years of experience transforming Fortune 100 organizations in finance, healthcare, consumer, retail, automotive, and avionic industries. Neel was recognized as an Industry Thought Leader in the 2022 Who’s Who in IoT report by Onalytica. His book, Intelligent Workloads at the Edge, is on how to harness the power of IoT, edge computing, analytics, and ML. His courses, AWS IoT: Developing and Deploying an Internet of Things and Industrial IoT Fundamentals, are on Udemy, Coursera, and edX.
Solutions architects
Prasad Rao
Principal Solutions ArchitectPrasad Rao is a Principal Partner Solutions Architect at AWS based out of UK, specializing in modernizing Microsoft Workloads on AWS. He leverages his experience to help AWS Partners across EMEA with their strategic technical enablement to build scalable architectures on AWS. He also mentors diverse people to excel in their cloud career journeys through his free mentoring initiative BeSA—Become a Solutions Architect.
Solutions architects
Aaron Sempf
Principal Solutions Architect, AABGAaron Sempf is a Global Principal Solutions Architect in the Global Systems Integrators (GSI) team. With over 20 years in software engineering and distributed systems, he focuses on solving for large-scale integration and event-driven systems. When not working with AWS GSI partners, he can be found coding prototypes for autonomous robots, IoT devices, and distributed solutions, and he loves talking about all things DevOps, automation, and development culture.
Solutions architects
Marcos Perez Seoane
Sr. Storage Specialist Solutions ArchitectMarcos, a Storage and Data Protection Specialist with decades of experience, joined AWS two years ago to help shape the AWS Backup roadmap based on customer feedback. He works closely with customers to understand their needs and collaborates with AWS engineers to develop new features that make AWS Backup a customer-focused data protection solution.
Solutions architects
Andra Somesan
Solutions ArchitectAndra is an AWS Enterprise Solutions Architect from Bucharest, Romania, with 10 years of experience learning about how business needs evolve over time and the digital transformations that meet their needs. She transitioned from telco to IT, focusing on cloud and DevOps, when she discovered the AWS community. She received the AWS All Builders Welcome Grant to attend re:Invent for the first time in 2021 and this year she is representing AWS as an employee, inclusion ambassador, and an EQ Champion.
Mixed roles and people managers
Mixed roles and people managers
Vijay Agrawal
Sr. Technical Program Manager for Event Technologies at AWSVijay is the technology owner of AWS event websites and the AWS tech stack for event platforms. Vijay has more than 20 years of experience and is a technology leader in this space. He is passionate about bringing innovative ideas, exploring tech architecture and leadership, and mentoring others on how to succeed in tech roles. He is open to talking about career development within AWS and any product or technology topics.
Mixed roles and people managers
Dawit Bereket
Sr. Mgr, Solutions Architects at AWSDawit is a 6-year AWS Solution Architecture Leader with 23+ years of leadership experience helping customers leverage technology to achieve their business goals. Dawit is passionate about building diverse, high-performance teams and have had the opportunity to do so supporting various technology segments. Dawit enjoys mentoring and supporting programs that aim to increase the level of participation and the diversity in STEM fields.
Mixed roles and people managers
Perry Blatstein
Senior Program Manager, Event Technology at AWSPerry Blatstein is a Senior Technical Program Manager on the AWS Global Event Technology team, blending his interests in security and technology to support events such as re:Invent, re:Inforce, and Global Summits. He previously served in the Central Intelligence Agency, and on the National Security Council working in the White House Situation Room, briefing the highest levels of government officials on national security matters and coordinating government-wide responses to international crises.
Mixed roles and people managers
Rick Suttles
Sr. Manager, Product Manager Tech - External Services at AWSRick Suttles leads Product Management for User Experience at AWS. He is responsible for the customer experience, including the AWS Management Console, Accessibility, and Privacy across AWS. His career includes working with non-profits, private and public sector, and higher education across product development, data management, and application integration.
Mixed roles and people managers
Anna Whitehouse
Head of Product for AWS Data Exchange at AWSAnna Whitehouse is a seasoned product manager with expertise in cloud data solutions. She is currently Head of Product Management for AWS Data Exchange, a third-party party data marketplace. Anna also actively contributes to diversity initiatives, such as Women in Data and Women at AWS. Connect with Anna for innovation and leadership in the cloud and data space.
Mixed roles and people managers
Sona Rajamani
Manager, Solutions Architects at AWSSona is a Strategic SA Manager based out of San Francisco. She has been at AWS for 6 years and worked as an SA for many years before transitioning into management. She has a CSE background with over 16 years of experience. She is passionate about CloudOps, and has published numerous technical blogs and workshops. She believes people are the foundations of a good enterprise and is an avid mentor, encouraging women to build their brand wherever they go!
Mixed roles and people managers
Michelle Matthews-Alexander
ID&E Leader, Marketing at AWSMichelle has been immersed in the world of multicultural marketing and communications for more than 15 years. Her infectious energy coupled with her ability to understand diverse audiences and drive organizational change has allowed her to create meaningful impact in both the tech and automotive industry. Michelle is the Global Head of ID&E Marketing, Customer Engagement & Events for AWS. She leads the team who creates and drives the narrative around ID&E efforts worldwide, internally, and externally.
Mixed roles and people managers
Anna Montalat
AWS Product Marketing Manager at AWSAnna Montalat leads product marketing for AWS analytics and streaming technologies. She has 10+ years of experience bringing new products to market, designing marketing strategies at scale, and enabling customers across technologies including quantum computing, data analytics, cybersecurity, and confidential computing. Anna is a leader and an entrepreneur at heart. She brings energy, passion, and experience to help organizations build customer-focused solutions and deliver bar-raising outcomes.
Mixed roles and people managers
Banjo Obayomi
Senior Developer Advocate at AWSBanjo is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS, where he helps builders get excited about using AWS. Banjo is passionate about operationalizing data and building apps. He has started a meetup and open source projects around utilizing data. When not building the next big thing, Banjo likes to relax by playing video games, especially JRPGs, and exploring events happening around him.
Mixed roles and people managers
Brian Searcy
Principal Technical Program Manager - AWS Event Technology at AWSBrian has been involved in AWS events since 2013, and 2023 is his tenth re:Invent. His focus is on the network connectivity required to support customers. He oversaw the expansion of the re:Invent network from a single venue supporting a few thousand customers and partners to a campus network incorporating most of the Las Vegas strip, supporting more than 65,000 attendees. High-density Wi-Fi design, public/private 5G, network security, and rapidly deployable and scalable networks are his areas of expertise.
Mixed roles and people managers
Ahuva Hazan-Fuchs
Principal Product Manager Tech at AWSAhuva Hazan-Fuchs is the Principal Product Manager Tech for AWS Application Migration Service, and Ahuva has been with AWS for over 2 years. She has held various product management and software development roles for nearly 25 years and has experience working at rapidly growing startups as well as large enterprise companies.
AWS Community leaders
AWS Community leaders
Irene Aguilar
Cloud Engineer at NTT DataIrene is a Cloud Architect, AWS Ambassador, and AWS Community Builder, with extensive experience in software architecture at the NTT Data Technology Unit. While her career began with backend architecture, Irene has evolved into a key player in the digital transformation landscape. In recent years, she has led the charge in designing and implementing cutting-edge cloud-native solutions for large enterprises, with a strong focus on leveraging AWS to drive innovation and scalability.
AWS Community leaders
Ernest Chiang
Director of Product & Technology Integration at PAFERS TechDiscover Ernest Chiang: immersed in AWS since 2008. Guiding PAFERS Tech, he’s been instrumental in AWS adoption on a global scale. Beyond formal settings, he's a known figure from Taiwan’s premier FLOSS gatherings to tech spheres at large. Venturing into fitness IoT, his Ernest PKM strategy highlights his pursuit of excellence. Celebrated as an AWS Community Hero, Ernest continues to inspire.
AWS Community leaders
David Krohn
AWS Solutions Architect at globaldatanetDavid is a cloud enthusiast fully engaged in designing innovative solutions within the extensive AWS landscape. His skills include cloud automation, infrastructure as code (IaC), continuous delivery, microservices architecture, and cloud security, all working together within the AWS Cloud.
As an AWS Community Builder and APN Ambassador, David engages with and supports the AWS Community by sharing knowledge and collaborating with professionals.
AWS Community leaders
Gizem Gür
Co-founder at SufleGizem Gür is a Senior Solutions Architect and Co-founder at Sufle, an AWS Advanced Services Partner, specializing in crafting AWS solutions for regulated environments. She is skilled in DevOps, security, cloud, and software development. Over 6 years with Sufle, her work reflects her commitment to precision and a genuine passion for continuous learning. Beyond her technical expertise, Gizem is recognized as an AWS Ambassador. She also champions diversity and inclusion in the industry.
AWS Community leaders
Danielle Heberling
Senior Software Engineer at EnsomataDanielle Heberling is an AWS Serverless Hero and got her start in community through her work at Stackery building developer tools, writing blog posts, and speaking. Much of this work she continues to this day.
When she’s not coding or talking about Serverless, you can often find her reaching back to her teaching roots by mentoring folks from underrepresented groups that would like to make a career switch into tech.
AWS Community leaders
Thorsten Höger
CEO, AWS Automation EvangelistThorsten is an AWS automation evangelist recognized by the AWS Heroes program. He helps tech leads of SMEs automate their AWS infrastructure using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). He also is the maintainer of several open-source projects and a contributor to the AWS CDK.
AWS Community leaders
Liz Rice
Chief Open Source Officer at IsovalentLiz Rice is an AWS Container Hero and Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud-native networking, security, and observability project. She is the author of Container Security, and Learning eBPF, both published by O'Reilly, and she sits on the CNCF Governing Board and on the Board of OpenUK. She was Chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee in 2019 to 2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018.
AWS Community leaders
Emanuel Russo
Executive Manager | Head of AWS Competence Center at Digital Architecture NTT DATA ItalyEmanuel is AWS Chief Architect at NTT DATA Italia. Passionate about cloud, he specializes in the design and implementation of cloud-native architectures and has experience in managing mission-critical applications. With a background as a developer, his motto is “everything-as-code” as he is a fan of automation and DevOps. Through communities, he loves helping other people and contributing to the most innovative projects in the IT landscape.
AWS Community leaders
Dinesh Sharma
Regional Practice Lead at DatacomDinesh is a Senior AWS Consultant at Datacom with over 14 years of experience working with various clients and industries across Australia and New Zealand. He loves to help organizations in their cloud journeys and guide them during each phase of transformation. Dinesh strongly believes that to provide the best solution you have to be the best listener—if you know the “what” and the “why,” then the “how” becomes clear!
AWS Community leaders
Brian Tarbox
Principal Solutions Architect at CaylentBrian is an AWS Hero and also an Alexa Champion. He runs the Boston User Group (bAWSton UG), which self-describes as “a wicked cool user group.” He has ten patents and a variety of certifications, including both AWS professional certifications.
AWS Community leaders
Wendy Wong
Business Performance Analyst at Service NSWWendy is an AWS Hero, Data Scientist, Business Analyst and AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate who solves business problems in cloud architecture, ETL modernization, AI/ML, and NLP. She is a Lead Instructor in Data Analytics at General Assembly Australia, Lecturer at Kaplan Business School, Instructor for LinkedIn Learning, and previously led Women in Data Science Sydney and Women in Big Data Sydney. She empowers others to innovate with data, generative AI, and ML.