Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company’s customer-centric technology vision.

As one of the forces behind Amazon’s approach to cloud computing, he is passionate about helping young businesses reach global scale, and transforming enterprises into fast-moving digital organizations.

Vogels joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University where he was a distributed systems researcher. He has held technology leadership positions in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.

Darko is a Senior Developer Advocate based in Seattle, WA. His goal is to share his passion and technological know-how with Engineers, Developers, Builders, and tech enthusiasts across the world. If it can be automated, I will definitely try to do so. Most of his focus is towards DevOps and Management Tools, where automation, pipelines, and efficient developer tools is the name of the game – click less and code more so you do not repeat yourself ! Also, he collect a lot of old technology and try to make it do what it should not. Like deploy AWS infrastructure through a Commodore 64

Matheus Guimaraes began his career over 20 years ago as junior video game programmer when C/C++ still ruled the world and HTML was an extra credit class. Much like the industry itself, his career evolved at pace over the years allowing him to be exposed to many different technologies and methodologies that all served to enrich his wide technical and field knowledge. Married to code and architecture, he maintained a hands-on approach throughout his journey from developer to CTO and everything else in between. Matheus remains very passionate about the role that technology plays in bridging the present with all the possibilities for our future.

Maciej Lelusz is the independent consultant, IT Architect, mentor, blogger, podcaster, IT community builder, CEO INLEO. He likes to share the knowledge and spread the good practices among the community of experts and T enthusiasts. Thus, he organizes AWS User Group Meetups in Krakow and VMUG (VMware User Group) events in Poland.
Few facts:
- 16 years of experience in data center and cloud computing technologies.
- vExpert title 12 Times in a row.
- AWS Hero, AWS CSA, VMware VCP3/4/5/6, Microsoft MCP i MCTS, DELL/EMC Technology Architect VNX, Isilon.​

Rostyslav is a specialist with over 8 years experience in Big Data and Data ingestion. He has experience with AWS projects of leading companies in the telecommunications, cloud computing and retail. Rostyslav's interests include data distribution, processing and mining.

Anamaria has seen her first computer when she was 4 years old and basically never let computer science, video games and engineering go ever since. She has worked in various technical roles from freelancer, full-stack developer, to data engineer, technical lead and CTO at various companies in Denmark, focusing on the gaming and advertising industries. She has been at AWS for over 2 years, working as a Senior Solutions Architect, focusing mainly on Life Sciences and on AI/ML . Anamaria has a Bachelor Degree in Applied Engineering and Computer Science, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and over 10 years of AWS experience. When she’s not working or playing video games, she’s coaching girls and female professionals in understanding and finding their path through technology.

Ovidiu is Sr. Solutions Architect for AWS, passionate about helping developers and enterprises build modern applications using the transformational capabilities of AWS services. His professional experience started in 2007, consists in different roles ranging from Software Developer, Database and Sys admin and Devops Engineer. He leverages his experience to help people bring new ideas to life, focusing on data-driven architectures, distributed systems and devops culture. In his free time he does triathlon, reads about human mind and emerging technologies.

Stas is a platform engineer at Grammarly and brings over 15 years of experience in  information technology, primarily focusing on cloud infrastructure. As a  platform engineer, he is passionate about sharing his experiences on building  scalable and secure cloud solutions with best practices and providing  comprehensive guidance in various areas such as networking, Linux, AWS  internals, operations, and many more.

As a Solutions Architect at AWS, Igor helps customers to implement their know-how and grow business with help of cloud technologies. His primary interests are in DevOps, containers, serverless, and Blockchain areas.

Before joining the company, Igor used AWS as a customer, building solutions and helping companies adopt cloud technologies in the fintech, e-commerce, banking, and Blockchain domains. For the past 13 years, he has worked on Java projects, done some Golang, Scala, and Kotlin development. Then, as a Solutions Architect, took responsibility for transitioning the legacy e-commerce monolith to the microservices in the AWS cloud. And for the last few years, he has focused on cloud transformations in Fintech companies, and Blockchain projects.

A highly skilled, certified Senior Java Engineer who offers a unique combination of cross-functional skills –
including a 10-year international track record of success in technical analysis and design.
Hands-on contributor with proven knowledge in system design, and development using development
best-practices and principles like SOLID, KISS, DRY.  Experienced with frontend/backend and ETL
development.
Active Agile SDLC practitioner with over five years of experience in team management

László Bodor is an experienced cloud architect focused on the AWS Cloud. Working in IT for more then 20 years he is now focused on architecting and building cloud native architectures which take full advantage of what the AWS cloud can offer. He has 4 AWS certifications, including a trainer certification from Amazon. Teaching cloud is another one of his passions, he trains students on how to architect for the cloud and also how to solve everyday problems that they might encounter working with AWS. László is involved in the Cluj (Romania) AWS community (User group leader) and in his spare time likes to travel and tend his fruit trees.

Yavor  Ivanov does databases for living since 1999. He has 3 AWS certificates  including “System Architect Professional”; 6 Oracle certificates including  “Certified Master”; other valuable certificates including “International  leadership” and “Psychology at Work”.   Yavor's heart is in the technical details, while his experience helps  him see the bigger picture.

Diana Cheng is a Sr. Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services where she works with Enterprise customers to help them achieve their business goals through the adoption of Cloud technologies. She has 10+ years of experience in software development and consulting. Prior to joining AWS, Diana worked as a team lead, architect, and consultant at a number of enterprise companies in different sectors

Dmytro has over 15 years of IT experience. He headed the System Architecture Group, key technology areas and consulting services of one of the largest Ukrainian service companies.As a technology leader Dmytro continues to build his architectural and consulting experience at N-iX.As an architecture coach and speaker he tries to share his experience with the community through special training, conferences, and architecture meetings.