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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 data. Their contributions to the AWS neighborhood are vastly appreciated, and right now we’re excited to have a good time 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 growth workflows and help innovation. As an energetic member of the AWS and Cloud Native communities, he often shares his experience at occasions like KubeCon, AWS re:Invent, AWS Neighborhood Days, and Kubernetes Neighborhood Days. By way of his initiative, “Degree Up with Ahmed,” he shares sensible insights and sources to assist engineers develop their expertise and keep forward within the evolving tech panorama.
Badri Narayanan Kesavan – Singapore
Neighborhood 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 neighborhood. He has delivered a number of talks at AWS Singapore Summit, AWS Summit ASEAN 2023, AWS Neighborhood Days, and numerous consumer group meetups. As an energetic AWS neighborhood chief, he organizes meetups and workshops underneath the AWS Singapore Person Group the place he frequently conducts periods on various AWS subjects, participating a large viewers to foster innovation and collaboration. He has additionally authored the e-book “Mastering Amazon EC2)” which is a complete information to constructing sturdy and resilient purposes on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Marcelo Paiva – Goiânia, Brazil
Neighborhood Hero Marcelo Paiva has over 30 years of expertise in expertise and is the CTO at Softprime Soluções, main product growth 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 modern options utilizing AWS. Captivated with tech communities, Marcelo based the AWS Person Group in Goiânia in 2018, serving to develop the local people. At present, he organizes occasions corresponding to JoinCommunity and Cloud Summit Cerrado, fostering studying and networking within the Cerrado area.
Raphael Jambalos – Quezon Metropolis, Philippines
Neighborhood Hero Raphael Jambalos manages the Cloud Native growth staff at eCloudValley Philippines. His staff has applied dozens of cloud-native purposes throughout a number of industries for patrons within the Philippines. He’s energetic in serving to the AWS Person Teams develop within the Philippines, and is obsessed with connecting with the neighborhood 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 professional, 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 neighborhood. Stav actively shares her experience by talking at AWS neighborhood occasions, in addition to safety and container conferences. She can be a pacesetter of the Israel AWS Person Group and is a pastry-chef college graduate and licensed skipper.
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Go to the AWS Heroes web site for those who’d prefer to study extra concerning the AWS Heroes program, or to attach with a Hero close to you.
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