As we gear up forward of AWS re:Invent 2024, we’re thrilled to announce our closing cohort of latest AWS Heroes! These people exemplify experience and dedication to leveraging AWS applied sciences and sharing information. Their contributions to the AWS neighborhood are drastically appreciated, and right now we’re excited to have fun 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 robust give attention to 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 keen about sharing his information and continuously speaks at business 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 skilled observe lecturer at Worldwide Burch College, and actively shares her information in DevOps, generative AI, and different rising applied sciences. Dzenana’s ardour for expertise extends past the classroom, as she actively mentors college students in cloud and AI options. A devoted advocate for range in tech, she champions ladies’s inclusion and empowerment within the business. By means of talking engagements and mentorship applications, Dzenana conjures up and equips the following era 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 keen about fostering information and studying amongst cloud lovers 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 middle into the cloud and groups constructing with a serverless-first mindset. Over these years, he has seen and discovered lots—particularly the distinction the cloud makes in shortly delivering high-quality, scalable, dependable, and worthwhile software program. The profitability facet is tremendous necessary 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 means of the lens of his favourite matters: event-driven and serverless architectures, resiliency, price optimization, and observability. Moreover, he is among the organizers of the AWS Person Group in his metropolis – Wrocław.
Stephen Sennett – Melbourne, Australia
Group Hero Stephen Sennett is a Senior Advisor 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 means of 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. Exterior 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 Growth at ip.labs GmbH (a Fujifilm subsidiary), and brings over twenty 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 information 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.
Be taught Extra
Go to the AWS Heroes web site in case you’d prefer to be taught extra concerning the AWS Heroes program, or to attach with a Hero close to you.
— Taylor