Saying the most recent AWS Heroes – June 2023

AWS Heroes dedicate their time to assist others construct higher and sooner on AWS. Heroes help and provides again to the group in quite a lot of methods: contributing to open supply initiatives, organizing AWS Neighborhood Days, talking at conferences, main workshops, mentoring builders, internet hosting meetups, and rather more.

Please welcome and say hey to our latest AWS Heroes!

AJ Stuyvenberg – Boston, USA

Serverless Hero AJ Stuyvenberg is a Workers Engineer at Datadog, and has been a member of the serverless group since early 2017. His work focuses on serverless and distributed system observability. AJ is an open supply creator and maintains a number of initiatives, which enhance the serverless developer expertise. He has additionally spoken at a number of conferences, together with AWS re:Invent and AWS Summits, and incessantly writes about serverless subjects on his weblog.

Danielle Heberling – Hillsboro, USA

Serverless Hero Danielle Heberling is a software program engineer with a background that features being a musician, educating at a Okay-8 public faculty, and dealing in technical help. She’s obsessed with constructing issues that make the world a greater place, whether or not that be by social change or chortle. When she’s not coding or speaking about serverless, you’ll be able to typically discover her reaching again to her educating roots by mentoring of us from underrepresented teams that want to make a profession swap into tech.

Dominik Grzywaczewski – Lublin, Poland

Neighborhood Hero Dominik Grzywaczewski is a Senior Cloud Web site Reliability Engineer at Chaos Gears with greater than 15 years of expertise in IT. His main goal is to help firms in gaining a deeper understanding of Cloud Computing applied sciences, and successfully leveraging them to drive sooner and safer innovation. Dominik shares his ardour by organizing technical meetups and workshops, and constantly collaborates with AWS group members. He additionally based the AWS Person Group in Lublin (Poland) and co-organizes the AWS Neighborhood Day convention in Warsaw (Poland).

Johannes Koch – Hessen, Germany

DevTools Hero Johannes Koch is a Sr. DevOps Engineer, Developer Expertise, GTS at FICO the place he contributes to the FICO®️ Platform. He shares his finest practices associated to Steady Integration and Steady Deployment (CI/CD) on his YouTube channel: cicdonaws. Johannes additionally based the AWS Person Group Bergstrasse, helped to start out the AWS Neighborhood DACH Förderverein, and is a part of the crew that organizes the AWS Neighborhood Day within the DACH area.

Michael Walmsley – Melbourne, Australia

Serverless Hero Michael Walmsley is a Lead Know-how Architect within the myWizard®️ Automation Group at Accenture, the place he’s centered on constructing event-driven merchandise within the cloud. He’s excited by the AWS Lambda Powertools open-source initiatives, and has been utilizing and actively contributing to them since 2020. Michael can be a passionate AWS group member in Australia, supporting native meetups and conferences. He helps manage and run the AWS Programming and Instruments Meetup in Melbourne, which focuses on working month-to-month hands-on coaching workshops which are open to everybody.

Mikey Fan – Beijing, China

Neighborhood Hero Mikey Fan is a Cloud-native Software Architect and SDN Developer. Since 2020, he has been actively exploring easy methods to construct revolutionary functions primarily based on AWS EKS, Personal 5G, and SD-WAN expertise, after which making use of them to 5G Edge Computing eventualities. Mikey can be a cloud-computing expertise evangelist and an open-source fanatic. He enjoys contributing code to open-source initiatives, corresponding to Kubernetes and Tungsten Material, and he likes to demo how these open-source applied sciences might be mixed with AWS cloud computing to create larger worth.

Ran Isenberg – Kfar Saba, Israel

Serverless Hero Ran Isenberg is a principal software program architect at CyberArk, the place he designs and builds serverless companies. He’s obsessed with CI/CD and AWS CDK, and has contributed a number of utilities to the AWS Lambda Powertools open-source undertaking. Ran additionally maintains quite a few serverless associated open-source initiatives on his GitHub account, such because the AWS Lambda cookbook – a serverless service template that will get you began within the serverless world with all the finest practices in seconds.

Sabiha Ali – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Neighborhood Hero Sabiha Ali is a Options Architect at ScaleCapacity. She makes a speciality of Amazon Join, architecting resilient and safe programs within the cloud. As an Amazon Join Ambassador, she helps companies improve their buyer experiences. Her unwavering ardour for studying has earned her quite a few AWS certifications (9X), solidifying her experience within the discipline. She grew to become an AWS Person Group Chief in Dubai after beginning out as an energetic AWS Neighborhood Builder. Sabiha can be dedicated to empowering girls within the tech trade, making her a valued skilled and an advocate for change.

Tomasz Dudek – Wroclaw, Poland

Machine Studying Hero Tomasz Dudek works as a Knowledge & AI Staff Lead and a Options Architect at Chaos Gears. He guides clients on how leveraging machine studying powered options may also help their companies thrive. He additionally designs AWS architectures and manages a data-focused crew. Moreover, Tomasz co-organizes the AWS Neighborhood Day Poland, and in addition to hosts the AWS Person Group in his hometown Wroclaw. He typically conducts workshops, corresponding to SageMaker Immersion Days, speaks at conferences, and shares his data within the type of quick posts on LinkedIn, and longer ones on his weblog, ‘MLOps and the way you tame it.’

Wojciech Dąbrowski – Katowice, Poland

Neighborhood Hero Wojciech Dąbrowski is Head of Cloud Structure at DTiQ, the place he leads the crew chargeable for the structure of cloud options and the cloud adaptation technique within the group. He has been an AWS Person Group Silesia chief since 2019, and has managed to prepare a number of on-line and offline meetups. As well as, Wojciech leads workshops and presents cloud computing and software program engineering subjects at varied occasions.

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If you happen to’d prefer to study extra in regards to the new Heroes or join with a Hero close to you, please go to the AWS Heroes web site or browse the AWS Heroes Content material Library.

— Taylor