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We’re excited to announce the most recent cohort of AWS Heroes, acknowledged for his or her distinctive contributions and technical management. These passionate people symbolize numerous areas and technical specialties, demonstrating notable experience and dedication to information sharing inside the AWS group. From AI and machine studying to serverless architectures and safety, our new Heroes showcase the breadth of cloud innovation whereas fostering inclusive and interesting technical communities. Be a part of us in welcoming these group leaders who’re serving to to form the way forward for cloud computing and provoking the following era of AWS builders.
Kristine Armiyants – Masis, Armenia
Group Hero Kristine Armiyants is a software program engineer and cloud help engineer who transitioned into expertise from a background in finance, having earned an MBA earlier than changing into self-taught in software program improvement. Because the founder and chief of AWS Person Group Armenia for over 2.5 years, she has remodeled the native tech panorama by organizing Armenia’s first AWS Group Day, scaling it from 320 to 440+ attendees, and main a crew that brings international-scale occasions to her nation. By way of her technical articles in Armenian, hands-on workshops, and “no-filter” weblog sequence, she makes cloud information extra accessible whereas mentoring new consumer group organizers and early-career engineers. Her dedication to group constructing has resulted in 5 new AWS Group Builders from Armenia, demonstrating her dedication to creating inclusive areas for studying and development within the AWS group.
Nadia Reyhani – Perth, Australia
Machine Studying Hero Nadia Reyhani is an AI Product Engineer who integrates DevOps greatest practices with machine studying methods. She is a former AWS Group Builder and commonly presents at AWS occasions on constructing scalable AI options utilizing Amazon SageMaker and Bedrock. As a Girls in Digital Ambassador, she combines technical experience with advocacy, creating inclusive areas for underrepresented teams in cloud and AI applied sciences.
Raphael Manke – Karlsruhe, Germany
DevTools Hero Raphael Manke is a Senior Product Engineer at Dash0 and the creator of the unofficial AWS re:Invent planner, which is used to assist construct a schedule for the occasion. With a decade of AWS expertise, he makes a speciality of serverless applied sciences and DevTools that streamline cloud improvement. Because the organizer of the AWS Person Group in Karlsruhe and a former AWS Group Builder, he actively contributes to product enhancement by way of public talking and direct collaboration with AWS service groups. His dedication to the AWS group spans from native consumer group management to offering worthwhile suggestions to service groups.
Rowan Udell – Brisbane, Australia
Safety Hero Rowan Udell is an unbiased AWS safety guide specializing in AWS Identification and Entry Administration (IAM). He has been sharing AWS safety experience for over a decade by way of books, weblog posts, meet-ups, workshops, and convention shows. Rowan has taken half in lots of AWS group packages, was an AWS Group Builder for 4 years, and is a part of the AWS Group Day Australia Organizing Committee. A frequent speaker at AWS occasions together with Sydney Summit and different group meetups, Rowan is thought for remodeling complicated safety ideas into easy, sensible, and workable options for companies securing their AWS environments.
Sangwoon (Chris) Park – Seoul, Korea
Serverless Hero Sangwoon (Chris) Park leads improvement at RECON Labs, an AI startup specializing in AI-driven 3D content material era. He’s a former AWS Group Builder and the creator of “AWS Classroom” YouTube channel, and he shares sensible serverless structure information with the AWS group. Chris hosts month-to-month AWS Classroom Meetups and the AWS KRUG Serverless Small Group, actively selling serverless applied sciences by way of group occasions and academic content material.
Toshal Khawale – Pune, India
Group Hero Toshal Khawale is an skilled expertise chief with over 22 years of experience in engineering and AWS cloud expertise, holding 12 AWS certifications that reveal his cloud information. As a Managing Director at PwC, Toshal guides organizations by way of cloud transformation, digital innovation, and software modernization initiatives, having led quite a few large-scale AWS migrations and generative AI implementations. He was an AWS Group Builder for six years and continues to function the AWS Person Group Pune Chief, actively fostering group engagement and information sharing. By way of his roles as a mentor, frequent speaker, and advocate, Toshal helps organizations maximize their AWS investments whereas staying on the forefront of cloud expertise tendencies.
Be taught Extra
Go to the AWS Heroes webpage in the event you’d wish to be taught extra concerning the AWS Heroes program, or to attach with a Hero close to you.
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