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As we dive into 2025, we’re thrilled to announce our newest group of AWS Heroes! These distinctive people have demonstrated excellent experience and innovation, and are dedicated to sharing information. Their contributions to the AWS group are significantly appreciated, and right now we’re excited to rejoice them.
Ahmed Bebars – New Jersey, USA
Container Hero Ahmed Bebars is a Principal Engineer at The New York Occasions, the place he leads the design and supply of scalable developer platforms that improve productiveness and empower engineering groups. With deep experience in containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native applied sciences, Ahmed builds sturdy infrastructure options that streamline improvement workflows and assist innovation. As an lively member of the AWS and Cloud Native communities, he ceaselessly shares his experience at occasions like KubeCon, AWS re:Invent, AWS Group Days, and Kubernetes Group Days. Via his initiative, “Stage Up with Ahmed,” he shares sensible insights and assets to assist engineers develop their expertise and keep forward within the evolving tech panorama.
Badri Narayanan Kesavan – Singapore
Group Hero Badri Narayanan Kesavan is an Engineering Lead and Options Architect with over a decade {of professional} expertise, specializing in AWS Cloud options, platform engineering, and DevOps automation. Badri’s ardour lies in studying and sharing with the group. He has delivered a number of talks at AWS Singapore Summit, AWS Summit ASEAN 2023, AWS Group Days, and numerous consumer group meetups. As an lively AWS group chief, he organizes meetups and workshops below the AWS Singapore Consumer Group the place he often conducts classes on various AWS matters, partaking a large viewers to foster innovation and collaboration. He has additionally authored the ebook “Mastering Amazon EC2)” which is a complete information to constructing sturdy and resilient functions on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Marcelo Paiva – Goiânia, Brazil
Group Hero Marcelo Paiva has over 30 years of expertise in expertise and is the CTO at Softprime Soluções, main product improvement and analysis in digital biometrics, facial recognition, and synthetic intelligence (AI). With greater than a decade working with cloud computing, he focuses on constructing scalable and revolutionary options utilizing AWS. Captivated with tech communities, Marcelo based the AWS Consumer Group in Goiânia in 2018, serving to develop the local people. At this time, he organizes occasions reminiscent of JoinCommunity and Cloud Summit Cerrado, fostering studying and networking within the Cerrado area.
Raphael Jambalos – Quezon Metropolis, Philippines
Group Hero Raphael Jambalos manages the Cloud Native improvement workforce at eCloudValley Philippines. His workforce has applied dozens of cloud-native functions throughout a number of industries for purchasers within the Philippines. He’s lively in serving to the AWS Consumer Teams develop within the Philippines, and is obsessed with connecting with the group past Manila. In his free time, he likes to learn books and write about cloud applied sciences on his Dev.to weblog.
Stav Ochakovski – Tel Aviv, Israel
Container Hero Stav Ochakovski is a DevOps Engineer at Beacon and a cybersecurity knowledgeable, managing extremely scalable multi-cloud environments. With a background in DevOps engineering and instruction, Stav seamlessly transitioned into the dynamic cybersecurity start-up scene. A champion of container applied sciences and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), she brings deep experience in Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and logging options to the AWS group. Stav actively shares her experience by talking at AWS group occasions, in addition to safety and container conferences. She can also be a pacesetter of the Israel AWS Consumer Group and is a pastry-chef faculty graduate and licensed skipper.
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Go to the AWS Heroes web site when you’d wish to study extra in regards to the AWS Heroes program, or to attach with a Hero close to you.
— Taylor