AWS Community Day
Hyderabad
AWS
Community Day
Hyderabad
18th March 2023
Radisson Blu | Banjara Hills
Highlights
Expert Talks
See and learn the details of what industry leaders and SMEs are building on the AWS cloud and how they are leveraging AWS services for the future!
Workshops
Instructor led hands-on AWS workshop projects to learn how to build real-world applications using multiple AWS services and other leading technologies.
Quiz On!
Participate in all day long challenging AWS quizzes from experts that puts your cloud knowledge to the test. Top the leaderboard to win prizes!
Panel Discussion
Expert panels discuss various topics relevant to the current industry trends. AMA with multiple thought leaders on community, upskililng & careers.
Tickets
Reserve Your Seat
First come first serve basis. Book yours today to avoid last minute rushes and expenses!
Early Bird
- Conference Day Pass
- Breakout Sessions
- Tea, Lunch & Hi-Tea
- Goodies Bag
Nawaab
- Conference Day Pass
- Breakout Sessions
- Tea, Lunch & Hi-Tea
- Goodies Bag
Standard
- Conference Day Pass
- Breakout Sessions
- Tea, Lunch & Hi-Tea
- Goodies Bag
Workshop Add-on
- Workshop Access
- *Requires Conference Day Pass
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About Us
Amplifying AWS Skills Through Communities
If you want to challenge the rules and redefine the possibilities of cloud technology, AWS User Groups are the place to be. Join a vibrant community of cloud builders who are united by their desire to share technology experience and build skills in your city.
You can amplify your AWS knowledge, collaborate with leaders and peers, and even make friends—all within an open, safe environment that encourages free thinking and diverse viewpoints. We are currently at 4,000+ members!
Speakers
Event Schedule
09:30AM
Welcome & Introduction
09:35AM
Keynote - Chandra Balani
Chandra Balani is Head Global Enterprises, India at Amazon Web Services India Private Limited.
Global Enterprises include Global Accounts with huge India presence in various verticals like Financial Services, Manufacturing, Automotive, Life Sciences, Media, High Tech and others.
Before Global Enterprises, Chandra led the geo expansion team in India and SAARC to build and run AWS business across Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Gujarat, Bangladesh and Nepal. Chandra is working in AWS India out of Hyderabad from last 9+ years. He comes with about 25 years of experience in IT Industry.
Chandra has helped large enterprises with their digital transformation journeys, helping them move to the cloud and innovate faster. Chandra also advises large enterprise on building a culture of innovation across their organization. Chandra leads the Inclusion, Diversity and Equity initiatives for AWS in India.
He is very active on LinkedIn and uses the social media platform to update his network about the latest innovation from AWS and Amazon. In his free time, he enjoys singing on Karaoke and listening to Bollywood songs.
09:55AM
Startup Box: Programs & Best Practices for Startups to Build & Scale on AWS
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| Kedar N R Sr Account Manager at |
Nayanendu M Sr Solutions Architect at |
In this session, the audience will learn about programs & tools that will help startups get started on AWS. The session will also cover best practices for startups.
Kedar N R is a Sr. Account Manager at AWS and has over 9 years of experience in Technology and Sales domain. He joined AWS in 2017 and has supported startups across Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi NCR in his previous roles.
Nayanendu Mishra (Nayan) is a Sr. Solutions Architect with 12+ years of experience in domains such as DevOps, Cloud Native, Containerization, Virtualization, Linux, NFV, SDN, APIs & AWS Serverless. Nayan joined AWS in 2017 and his recent stint before transitioning to the Solutions Architect role was as a Senior Cloud Support Engineer (SME in EKS & Opsworks).
10:20AM
AWS User Group Hyderabad Showcase
10:40AM
Panel Discussion – Women In Tech
11:25AM
Tea Break
11:40AM
Track 1 - Highway to Code-Driven Infrastructure
Aayush Jain
AWS Engineer at Classmethod Inc.
In this talk, I’ll explain why I switched to another method of deploying infrastructure, the issues I face with each method of deployment, and best practices for using IAC.
Aayush Jain has been working as an AWS Engineer at Classmethod since December 2020 and have 8 Aws certificates to date. In his job, he deploy AWS resources in production envrionment using scripts and Templates. He also blogs about AWS related events and updates.
Track 2 - Unlocking the Power of Amazon OpenSearch: An Overview
Dheeraj Choudhary
Lead System Engineer at EPAM Systems
AWS Community Builder
Amazon OpenSearch Service is an analytical service offering by aws which makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, a website search, and more that makes it easy for customers to run large-scale search and analytics workloads for their production workload.
Dheeraj is a Lead Engineer At EPAM with 10+ years of experience as a DevOps / Build and Release Engineering, Software configuration management in automating, build, deploy and release, cloud providers and APIs for Amazon (AWS) and likes to Share Knowledge contributing to Open Source community which mainly includes Cloud, DevOps,Linux etc. Dheeraj is also an AWS Community Builder & AWS User Group Pune Organizer.
Track 3 - Zero to Hero in Building ML models
Vaibhav Malpani
Senior Software Engineer at Incedo Inc.
SageMaker Studio helps you Preprocess the data, Train your Machine Learning models using the best possible Algorithm by understanding your data, Deploy the model, Monitor the deployed model, and Debug the model.
Vaibhav is a Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of expertise working with Cloud Technologies. He works on designing architecture for the projects using cloud services. Building Projects using AWS ML services. He has worked in building Chatbots, Search engines using Elasticsearch deployed on AWS. He has also worked in creating CI/CD pipelines using CodeBuilds and deploying it to AWS Lambda.
He likes to share his work by giving talks at various conferences and through writing blogs.
12:20PM
Track 1 - Building Multi-Tenant Apps with a SaaS-Driven Multi-Region Approach
Srinivasulu Kopparapo
Head Platform Engineer at 5Data Inc
Complex SaaS applications serving the different Regions/countries and still enabling the multi-tenant features.
Srinivasulu is a Technologist and an Author of a book:
Track 2 - Amazon EventBridge integrations with SaaS product events
Jones Zachariah Noel N
Sr. Developer Advocate at Freshworks Inc.
AWS Serverless Hero
The session is focused on how you can build integrations with SaaS product events with your application via Amazon EventBridge. The demo will walk you through the integration with Freshworks product – Freshdesk events which triggers a Step Functions execution and uses EventBridge API Destinations to update Freshdesk.
Jones Zachariah Noel N is a Senior Developer Advocate experiencing Developer Relations ecospace at Freshworks and has previously worked as Cloud Architect – Serverless where Jones was focused on designing and architecting solutions built with AWS Serverless tech stack.
He writes regularly about AWS Serverless and also talks about new features and different Serverless services which can help you level up your Serverless applications’ architecture. Speaker and contributor at multiple AWS forums – AWS UGs, AWS re:Skill India, AWS Community Day India and ASEAN region, AWS Summit India, AWS GameDay, AWS APJ Community Summit 2022, AWS Dev Day Bengaluru. He also runs his newsletter (fortnightly basis) “Everything AWS, Serverless and Architectures” about the recent happening in Serverless. Jones co-runs a YouTube podcast called The Zacs’ Show Talking AWS about DevOps and Serverless practices. Jones also co-organizes AWS User Group Bengaluru.
Track 3 - The Happy Data Scientist's Guide to ML Data Prep
Vivek Raja P S
VP – Product at Nexstem
AWS Machine Learning Hero
AWS UG Madurai Lead
The session covers the features and capabilities of Amazon SageMaker Wrangler in effectively preparing the data as part of MLOps
This session covers
– Intro to Amazon SageMaker DataWranger
– Dashboard walkthrough
– Built-in data preparation in SageMaker Studio Notebooks
– Real-Time and Batch Inference in Data Wrangler
– Bringing data from external SaaS Solutions
– Glimpse of new features
Vivek is working as Vice President – Product at NexStem which is a Brain Computer Interfacing Company. He is one of youngest AWS Heroes in the world when he was recognised as AWS Machine Learning Hero at the age of 22.
He leads AWS User Group Madurai and winner of “Invent and Simplify” community award at AWS APAC Community Leaders Summit 2022 for his innovative methods of creating community value in tier 2 cities and nominated as “Best User Group”. Besides that, he is Guinness World Record Holder, 16x Multi-cloud certified, blogger and published over 10 research papers along with 2 patents.
1:35PM
Lunch Break – 40 Mins
2:15PM
Track 1 - Auto Deployment: Provisioning Multi-Tenant Event Streaming Platform
Vimal Gupta
Solution Architect at Tech Vedika
This session gives a peek into how we transformed an Event Live-streaming OTT platform developed using Web3 and NFT; to enable “white-label” access model for various brands for monetizing their respective live-streams.
Vimal is a technocrat with over 15 years of experience in Software & Firmware Development, Enhancement & Maintenance, Application Support, and a Leading role in Team Management. He has extensive exposure in the end-to-end development of software products from requirement analysis to system study, designing, code testing, debugging, documentation and implementation.
He is AWS certified Solution Architect with in-depth knowledge of various AWS Services and deliverd end to end solution using various AWS services.
He is currently involved in all phases of the projects right from requirement gathering to the delivery of the system. He is responsible for maintaining coding standards & quality, technology architecture, and any of the POCs that need to be implemented. He also provides technical guidance to the offshore team.
Track 2 - AWS Glue: Incremental Data Processing & Dynamic Scaling Nodes
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| Arun Kumar Nagaraj Lead Data Engineer at Presidio |
Naveen Chandar B Sr. Data Engineer at Presidio |
This session will cover the features and Benefits of AWS Glue Service with a use case. The use case elaborates how AWS Glue is effectively used to process incremental data and dynamically handle the glue job worker node based on the source data size from S3.
Arun is a lead data engineer at Presidio over 6 years of experience on AWS Cloud technologies. He works on designing/developing the data pipeline for streaming as well as batch processing as prescribed by AWS best practices. He also worked on designing the data pipeline architecture for a new product that quickly scaled from 0 to 125000 daily active users. He is also a blockchain enthusiast.
Naveen is a senior data engineer at Presidio over 4 years of experience. He worked on automating ETL processes across billions of rows of data, which reduced manual workload significantly. Designed, developed, deployed and maintained data services for 20+ pipelines. He is interesting in exploring devops stuff’s.
2:15PM – 4:15PM
Workshop - Demystifying MLOps - Propelling Models - Prototype to Production
Shadab Hussain
Senior Associate – MLOps at TheMathCompany
AWS Community Builder
In this hands-on workshop, we will build an MLOps pipeline that leverages Amazon SageMaker, a service that supports the entire pipeline for ML model development, and is the heart of this solution. Around it, we will add different AWS DevOps tools and services to create an automated CI/CD pipeline for the ML model. This pipeline will prepare the data, build our docker images, train and test the ML model, and then integrate the model into a production workload.
You will need to purchase a Worskhop Pass to be able attend this hands on workshop.
Shadab is working as a Senior Associate – MLOps at TheMathCompany & he is one of the Managing Partners for the Quantum Computing India community. He formerly worked as a Developer Advocate at the London Stock Exchange Group.
He has around 5 years of experience in Analytics and building end-to-end ML pipelines on the cloud using the AGILE framework. He has also published a few research papers at National and International conferences. His research investigates use cases of Quantum Computing in Finance.
He is also an AWS Community Builder for #data.
2:55PM
Track 1 - Streamlining AWS Cloud with Terraform and Jenkins Automation
Ashok Kalakoti
VP – Infra & Platform
Fully automated workflow to provision the AWS cloud Infrastructure using open-source tools like Jenkins as Orchestrator and the Terraform tool to use CICD pipelines based on the GitOps operating model. Which this approach, the provision of cloud resources is a more secure and effective way of controlling the Terraform modules release. This solution also extends the self-help or self-service approach for developers to use pre-defined and secured modules to submit the infrastructure provisioning via git merge/PR.
Vimal is a technocrat with over 15 years of experience in Software & Firmware Development, Enhancement & Maintenance, Application Support, and a Leading role in Team Management. He has extensive exposure in the end-to-end development of software products from requirement analysis to system study, designing, code testing, debugging, documentation and implementation.
He is AWS certified Solution Architect with in-depth knowledge of various AWS Services and deliverd end to end solution using various AWS services.
He is currently involved in all phases of the projects right from requirement gathering to the delivery of the system. He is responsible for maintaining coding standards & quality, technology architecture, and any of the POCs that need to be implemented. He also provides technical guidance to the offshore team.
Track 2 - Fortifying the Cloud: Essential Security Strategies to Protect Resources
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| Medha Shree Solutions Architect at |
Shashank C Technical Trainer at |
We will be introducing participants to Common cloud security challenges, AWS Shared responsibility model, one slide introduction to NIST Framework Core and the five core functions (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover), introducing and aligning AWS Security Solutions to five domains introduced earlier, some scenarios demonstrating how and which services will be triggered, and lastly wrap up with quick updates from re-invent:2022 for the security related services.
Medha Shree is a Solutions Architect at AWS, India. She is part of Migration specialist team at AWS, helping numerous customers across the segments like Start-up, SMB and Enterprises in their Migration and Modernisation Industry. Medha supports customer from different industry segments with onboarding and then modernisation journey to the AWS Cloud. She actively contributes in content creation and enabling people activities. When not working, Medha loves playing badminton and exploring new places.
Shashank Chinchli is currently working as Technical trainer at AWS. He has 11 years of experience and he is experienced in designing secure, scalable, accessible architecture and interactive web applications with a strong interest in security within Cloud & Security.
3:35PM
Track 1 - Rocket your App into Orbit with AWS AppSync: Unleashing GraphQL
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| Abhishek Wagh Platform Engineer at Quantiphi Inc. AWS Community Builder AWS UG Nashik Leader |
Vishal Alhat Senior DevOps Engineer at Forcepoint AWS UG Pune Organizer |
This session revolves around how modern applications can be efficiently developed using AWS AppSync, details about the service’s features, pros, and cons, followed by a demo.
Abhishek is a platform engineer at Quantiphi, an AWS Community Builder, and an AWS User Group Nashik Leader. He has over 3 years of experience working on AWS and work on microservices architecture majorly on serverless paradigm.
Track 2 - Everything Fails: Crafting a Cloud Rescue Plan to Weather Any Storm
Neetul Mallan
Sr. DevOps Engineer at EZops Technologies
This session will cover how you can plan your disaster recovery scenarios by making use of various AWS integrated backup solutions to withstand high impact failures and how to restore from backup to an active working environment efficiently espcially with databases.
– Why Disaster Recovery?
– What are the types of DR strategies?
– AWS backups solutions to help achieve your RTOs & RPOs
– Use Case: Backing up your RDS Snapshots in S3 Glacier using Java SDK
– What are RDS Snapshots
– Why S3 glacier?
– What is Java SDK
– Demo
– Restoring Snapshots
– Disaster Recovery Best Practices
Neetu Mallan, is working with EZOps Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. as a Senior DevOps Engineer.Currently catching up with automation & DevOps best practices, she specializes in programming of backend Java components, micro services for financial applications & has experience in a wide variety of asset classes.
She is a co-organizer of AWS User Group Madurai & has a passion for learning & teaching all things AWS. Outside of her day job, she spends time working on her pet projects in AWS, writing blogs, learning new tech, spending time with her daughter & occasionally reading.
4:30PM
Certification Session
Deepika Nair
Technical Training Delivery Manager at
This session will help you understand the AWS certification path that is suitable for you and the various resources & program that can help you become certified quicker. This session will also test your knowledge on AWS by walk through of several challenging certification styled questions.
Deepika Nair is a Training Delivery Manager with the AWS Training and Certification India team. She has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry. In her previous roles, she has donned the hats of an Instructional Designer, S/W Developer and Trainer. She specialized in building Java /JEE applications using open source Web and ORM frameworks and enabling developers on these technologies.
She is a Champion AWS Authorized Instructor who is passionate about skilling professionals on all things cloud. She has trained hundreds of people on AWS in her tenure of 5+ years with the company. In her current role she leads a team of highly skilled technical trainers and manages the AWS Training Delivery function in India to ensure a world class training experience to her customers.
5:15PM
Closing
5:30PM – 6:30PM
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