SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Anton Babenko
AWS Community Hero / Terraform influencer
Doing serverless on AWS with Terraform for real
Anton is AWS Community Hero and helps companies around the globe build solutions using AWS and specializes in infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, and reusable infrastructure components.
He spends much of his time as an open-source contributor on various Terraform & AWS projects. Such as Terraform AWS modules (downloaded more than 200 million times), Terraform best practices ebook (www.terraform-best-practices.com), doing serverless with Terraform (serverless.tf), Terraform Weekly (weekly.tf), Your Weekly Dose of Terraform (http://bit.ly/terraform-youtube).
Anton co-founded and co-organizes AWS, DevOps, and HashiCorp User Groups in Norway and often speaks at technical meetups and conferences.
Doing serverless on AWS with Terraform for real
More and more companies are adopting serverless technologies as the community is defining the best practices, tools, and patterns.
Companies using Terraform as their infrastructure as a code tool are often required to reinvent the wheel when they work with serverless.
In the talk, I will explain why managing serverless applications with Terraform is a good idea and how https://serverless.tf open-source project has started as an organic response to the accidental complexity of many existing tools used by serverless developers.
I will demo a complete serverless application (including building and deploying it) using Terraform and open-source components.
Angel Marinov
AWS Principal Consultant
Developing AWS Skills:
Insights into Becoming an AWS Solutions Architect
Angel is a seasoned AWS Principal Consultant with over 10 years of experience in the IT industry. He is passionate about helping organizations design and implement cloud solutions that meet their business needs. Over the past 6 years, Angel has focused exclusively on AWS cloud architecture, design, and implementation, working closely with customers to guide them through their cloud adoption journey. For the past 3 years, Angel has been focusing also on building and leading a Professional Services team of cloud experts.
As an AWS Authorized Instructor for the past 2 years, Angel has been sharing his expertise through comprehensive training sessions. He brings a wealth of practical knowledge and real-world experience to his instruction, ensuring that his students gain a thorough understanding of AWS best practices and strategies for success.
Developing AWS Skills: Insights into Becoming an AWS Solutions Architect
As the demand for cloud-based solutions continues to grow, AWS has become a critical skillset for businesses and organizations of all sizes. This session will explore the need for AWS skills in our region and provide insights into becoming an AWS Solutions Architect.
In today's fast-paced and constantly evolving business landscape, it's more important than ever for organizations to upskill their people. By investing in developing their employees' AWS skills, organizations can not only stay competitive but also improve operational efficiency.
Whether you are a C-level stakeholder or an individual looking to take your AWS skills to the next level, this session will provide valuable insights and guidance for developing your personal or organization's AWS skills.
Hristo Stoyanov
DevOps Team Lead
RDS MySQL Upgrade challenges with scale
Hristo has been working in the software industry since 2008 when he began working part-time at a local ISP as a System/Network Administrator, all while still in high school. Since then, he has worked at a variety of organizations.
He considers the cultural aspect of DevOps to be just as important as the technology itself. He is a 7x Certified AWS professional.
As a team lead, Hristo firmly believes in leading by example and maintaining open communication.
RDS MySQL Upgrade challenges with scale
We want to share our team's experience of upgrading RDS MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8. It's about a master + a read replica setup with 26TB big EBS volumes, used by about 200 different ECS services and several Lambda functions. We wanted to achieve a minimum downtime upgrade. This was needed so we can move to Graviton instance type and reserve the DB instances to cut costs. We tried 3 approaches and eventually succeeded. Wanted to share the lessons learned with each attempt:
1. RDS Blue Green
- What EBS lazy-loading means on that size in reality
- How to speed up lazy-loading
- How you can (can't) trade-off data consistency for performance.
2. DMS
- Important considerations: parallel writing, Large Objects (LOBs)
3. RDS Replica Promotion
- How and why it worked?
- Caught a bug with gp3 IOPS provisioning in Multi-AZ
Georgi Kostadinov
Co-founder & CTO @ Kelvin Health, CTO & Head of AI @ Imagga
Building a Scalable and Secure AI Infrastructure for Healthcare on AWS
Georgi, a renowned expert with over a decade of experience in developing cutting-edge machine learning algorithms for image and video analysis, played a pivotal role in engineering Imagga Cloud AI—a leading AI infrastructure that has processed over 30 billion customer data points. As a founding team member and technical director at Kelvin Health, he contributes to a groundbreaking HealthTech solution for home-based preventive medicine using medically-verified AI to analyze thermal images. In 2020, Forbes Bulgaria recognized Georgi as one of the top 30 innovators under 30 for his accomplishments in computer science and innovation. Additionally, in 2023, Georgi was recognized as one of the Top-100 most influential IT leaders in Bulgaria.
Building a Scalable and Secure AI Infrastructure for Healthcare on AWS
Join us for a 30-minute session where we'll provide a detailed overview of Kelvin Health's AI infrastructure that is able to analyze and store thermal medical data while being HIPAA compliant. We'll explore the architecture of the infrastructure and discuss how we leveraged AWS services to achieve scalability, security, and compliance. In this session, you'll learn:
* The key considerations when building a scalable and secure AI infrastructure for healthcare on AWS
* The benefits of using AWS services for building a HIPAA-compliant infrastructure
* The architecture of Kelvin Health's AI infrastructure and how it integrates with AWS services
* The lessons we learned and best practices we followed when building our AI infrastructure
Whether you're a healthcare provider, researcher, or developer interested in building healthcare solutions on AWS, this session will provide valuable insights into building a scalable and secure AI infrastructure for healthcare on AWS.
Ivaylo Vrabchev
Principal Cloud Architect & Country Manager @ Phi Partners
FinOps on AWS
Ivaylo is an experienced Solution Architect / DevOps engineer, Trainer and Technical Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. His core skills are Public Cloud Services (AWS), CI/CD, DevSecOps and FinOps. Ivaylo is well versed in the complete technology life cycle from design and implementation to maintenance and enhancement. He has solid experience leading and growing teams to overcome challenges and work together to beat targets. Ivaylo is a thought leader in the Bulgarian and Global AWS communities. In 2021, the AWS team recognised him as one of their worldwide Ambassadors.
FinOps on AWS
When embarking on a cloud journey, it is imperative to devise and execute a proper cost management strategy that involves cross-company collaboration between Finance, Technology, and Business Leadership. This collaborative effort fosters agility, innovation, decentralized decision-making, and rapid adaptation to change. The abbreviation FinOps encompasses all aspects of this strategy, and during the event, Ivo will discuss the underlying principles, commonly employed tactics, and tools utilised to implement FinOps on AWS.
Todor Todorov
Yotpo SMSBump, Senior DevOps Engineer, AWS Community Builder
Chaos Engineering on AWS Workshop
Todor Todorov contributes to Yotpo's success in AWS via applying his technical knowledge, increasing developers velocity and organizing AWS KT sessions in the format of "Lunch and Learn" events. Todor is in an Yotpo SMSBump internal community leader role and has multiple certifications on AWS.
Before that, Todor was engaged as an AWS Architect at DXC.Technology and Senior Cloud and DevOps engineer at MentorMate.
Pationated about containers, Fargate, Kubernetes and Serverless, Todor is one of the AWS Community Builders in Bulgaria.
Todor admits that he can’t swim well, but he loves to sail a boat or a yacht. In addition to water, he feels great when traveling by land with his family to places they visit for the first time. And this is a real win-win situation, because it is so fully indulged in another passion - driving.
Chaos Engineering on AWS Workshop
This is covering the official AWS workshop and represents an introduction to chaos engineering using Amazon Web Services (AWS) tooling, with a focus on AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS). It introduces the core elements of chaos engineering:
* form a hypothesis (plan),
* introduce stress (do),
* observe (check), and
* improve (act).
You will learn how to use FIS and other AWS tools to inject faults in your infrastructure to validate your system's resilience as well as verifying your alarms, observability, and monitoring practices.
This is a technical workshop introducing chaos engineering practices for Dev, QA and Ops teams. For best results, the participants should have familiarity with the AWS console as well as some proficiency with command-line tooling.
Additionally, chaos engineering is about proving or disproving a hypothesis of how a particular fault might affect the overall system behavior (steady-state) so an understanding of the systems being disrupted is helpful but not required to do the workshop.
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Dimitar Dimitrov
Leading the infrastructure team at Dext
Taming your AWS bill – embracing ARM and other tips
Having started with software development in high school and working part-time during his university years, Dimitar spent a long time doing full-stack web development, including managing servers. This prepared him well for his current role of a lead of the Dext infrastructure team where he's been tackling all kinds of challenges since 2016.
Taming your AWS bill – embracing ARM and other tips
Dext is predominantly an AWS shop. Clouds are great enablers of growth – including your cloud bill. It's been an ongoing challenge to keep our AWS cloud costs at bay for the past 4-5 years, with lots of learnings along the way. The most recent one has been our journey from x86 to ARM for which we will share lessons learned. I plan to also mention what our general approach to cost saving in AWS is – how we look at our AWS costs, what we do for Kubernetes workloads (a kubecost-inspired approach but without kubecost) and some other tips and tricks that are only mentioned in passing the fine print of some AWS documentation somewhere, or not mentioned at all. We'll cover S3, EC2, compute in general, traffic, load-balaners and others.
Vasil Nedelchev
EnduroSat, Software Engineer
Cloud Solutions for Space Challenges
Vasil is a software engineer with a passion for innovation and problem-solving. He is currently a member of the EnduroSat Ground Segment Team, where he works on developing cutting-edge software solutions for mission operations using various AWS services, including DynamoDB, Lambda, S3, and others.
In addition, he is constantly keeping up with the latest developments in the AWS platform and is always eager to explore new ways to optimise cloud infrastructure.
Cloud Solutions for Space Challenges
In this event, we will discuss our experience building a Satellite Mission Operation Platform using AWS services, including DynamoDB, Lambda, AppRunner, and more. We will share insights on how we have successfully leveraged these services to support critical mission operations and highlight best practices for building scalable and reliable cloud-based applications.
Throughout the talk, we'll dive into the challenges we faced in building our mission operation platform, how we designed our infrastructure for high availability and fault tolerance, and the best practices we implemented to ensure reliability and scalability.
Additionally, we will share real-world examples of how we have successfully implemented these practices in our own satellite mission operation platform.
Pavel Kaminsky
PCI QSA, Founder & CEO at 7Security GmbH
Cost-efficient PCI DSS on AWS Serverless
Pavel Kaminsky is the guy Fintech founders call when they need to implement secure payment environments and cost-efficient PCI DSS. He is a mentor for VISA Innovation Program, Level39, Startupbootcamp, Fintech Hive, Impact Hub, to name a few, and a regular lecturer at various IT security conferences. Pavel is also the founder & CEO of 7Security - a QSA company authorized to provide PCI DSS certification to merchants and payment service providers in Europe, CEMEA and the USA. He works with startups daily, helping them to find solutions that work for small, energetic, and flexible teams. Pavel is a brainiac at building payment environments on AWS and GCP serverless components that optimize the PCI implementation and maintenance, and simply make the projects less expensive.
Cost-efficient PCI DSS on AWS Serverless
There are many misconceptions surrounding PCI DSS - the security standard, applying to all companies that transmit, process, or store cardholder data. It is widely believed that it’s difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to implement the standard. I beg to differ. In my workshop, I will demonstrate how serverless technology is a complete game-changer when it comes to PCI DSS. By using serverless components for your payment environment, you can save time, money, and effort. You don’t have to waste efforts on PCI DSS when you can focus on your business instead.
Ivan Iliev
Accedia, Senior DevOps Consultant
Self-Service deployment with AWS Proton
Hey, I am a DevOps Consultant at Accedia with extensive experience in cloud administration and automation. Global digitalization is of a particular interest for me and I believe that it can help everybody and affect our lives for good. I like to think forward and resolve the problems now rather than in the future as this save both time and money. However, in my free time I like to take inspiration from having a walk in the mountains and switch off from the world for a moment.
Self-Service deployment with AWS Proton
In the context of AWS Cloud Infrastructure, we usually utilize many resources from different services for different deployments. Over time, the number of applications and resources can increase significantly and, thus, make it harder for management and optimization due to time-consuming tasks. One solution to this challenge is Self-Service portals. It allows developers to become less dependent on additional help from Infrastructure and DevOps teams by granting them access to universal tools and environments.
Rosen Rankov
Data and Analytics manager
How to Build a Data Lake with Glue
Rosen is an experienced professional with a strong background in managing large volumes of data. He has a track record of optimizing databases, creating robust architectures, and successfully migrating data to public cloud providers. As the Data & Analytics Manager at MentorMate, he is responsible for developing and maintaining business relationships with partners, building high-performing teams of experts, expanding the department's service offerings, and exploring new technologies to test their suitability for the company.
Rosen's impressive career spans over 15 years, starting at A1 later he served as an Oracle DBA at Hewlett-Packard Bulgaria Ltd, where he honed his skills in database administration. He then worked as an Oracle Consultant at Luxoft. In 2017, Rosen co-founded Data Cloud Solutions, where he served as the CEO and Data Consultant, successfully growing the company until it was acquired by MentorMate. Rosen has also earned multiple Oracle and AWS certifications and has spent nine years specializing in performance tuning.
How to Build a Data Lake with Glue
In the era of big data, organizations are accumulating vast amounts of data from various sources. To derive meaningful insights from this data, it is crucial to have a robust data storage and processing infrastructure. AWS Glue, along with other AWS services such as AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, and AWS S3, provides a powerful platform to build and manage a scalable and cost-effective data lake. This guide aims to provide a detailed description of how to construct a data lake using these AWS services.
Wojciech Gawroński
Developer Advocate at AWS for Central and Eastern European (CEE) region
Builder's Guide to Generative AI on AWS
Wojtek is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS dedicated for Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. Working with Cloud Computing and Data Engineering since 2015 - in different roles: starting from IT Operations Engineer, Software Engineer and Cloud Architect. Functional programming and Serverless architecture aficionado. 9x Certified AWS Specialist. Speaker, lecturer, and content creator.
Builder's Guide to Generative AI on AWS
You have likely witnessed all the focus and attention on generative AI in recent months. Generative AI is a subset of machine learning powered by ultra-large ML models, including large language models (LLMs) and multi-modal models (e.g., text, images, video, and audio). Applications like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion have captured everyone’s attention and imagination, and all that excitement is for good reason. At AWS, we believe AI and ML are among the most transformational technologies of our time, capable of tackling some of humanity’s most challenging problems. That is why, for the last 25 years, we have invested heavily in the development of AI and ML, infusing these capabilities into every business unit. Yet, we have much more to come, and it’s coming fast! Starting with existing hardware - like AWS Inferentia or AWS Trainium - and services - like Amazon SageMaker, Amazon CodeWhisperer, through recently announced - like Amazon Bedrock, and Titan foundational models - the landscape of available solutions enables many innovative use cases. Generative AI is poised to have a profound impact across industries, hence why we provide a guide for the engineering roles on how those can help you build and innovate (or how in AWS we call them: builders).
Boyan Krosnov
CTO - StorPool Storage
Our experience with EC2 and EFA networking for a scale-out block storage solution delivering 1M+IOPS
Boyan is the CTO of StorPool Storage. StorPool is a fully managed primary storage platform which provides the easiest way to convert standard servers stacked with NVMe SSDs into high-performance, linearly scalable primary storage systems. Before that, Boyan has had experience in various fields, such as hardware design and production, IT infrastructure product design, service delivery, networking, teaching networking and programming, and informatics contests.
Our experience with EC2 and EFA networking for a scale-out block storage solution delivering 1M+IOPS
StorPool Storage is a primary storage platform designed for large-scale cloud infrastructure. Traditionally, customers deploy StorPool on standard servers in their datacenter space. It is often used for storing and managing the data of workloads that demand extreme reliability and ultra-fast data access times – databases, web servers, virtual desktops, real-time analytics solutions, and other mission-critical software.
Since August 2022 it’s possible to perform Proof of Concept deployments of StorPool Storage on i3en.metal instances in AWS.
This talk will outline the technical details of how we deploy a scale-out block storage solution over EC2 and EFA networks to deliver 1M+ IOPS to a single EC2 r5n instance. We'll share details about the architecture of the solution on AWS, features and capabilities of AWS that we benefited from and challenges we faced while developing and deploying it.
Martin Nanchev
Flutter Entertainment, Data Platform DevOps
AWS CodeGuru for Python
Meet Martin Nanchev, an AWS expert with all 12 AWS certificates, an AWS Authorized Instructor, and AWS Community Builder. He has extensive experience working on projects in Telecommunications, IoT, and mobile scouting applications. He is an SME for the AWS SysOps Associate exam and currently works at Pokerstars, building the next-generation data platform. In his free time, he shares his knowledge and passion for AWS with others in the AWS user group.
AWS CodeGuru for Python
Improve performance efficiency and execution time of Lambda Python code using CodeGuru Profiler + Lambda Powertools
Yasen Spasov
Territory Manager – Southeast Europe, AWS
AWS Partnership - A Guide for Services and Product Companies
Yasen Spasov is Territory Manger at Amazon Web Services since 2019. In his role, he is helping clients in building, migrating and optimizing meaningful solutions on AWS.
He is growing the AWS Partner Network in nine countries in Southeast Europe through new and existing AWS partners.
Before that, Yasen has had experience in various fields, such as business development, engineering, pre-sales, sales, customer success management and agile consulting.
AWS Partnership - A Guide for Services and Product Companies
There are several options on partnering with Amazon Web Services. It could be difficult to navigate all the different types of AWS Partnership paths and the complementary programs associated with them. In this presentation we will make a big overview on the AWS Partnership types, their requirements, benefits and how to navigate them as being a services or product oriented company.
We will look into other complementary programs like the AWS Marketplace, AWS Activate for Startups, AWS Training & Certification and how they could be of help in developing a successful partnership with AWS.
Stoyan Stoyanov
DevOps Engineer, AWS
How to build a data mesh in AWS
Stoyan works for AWS as a DevOps Engineer. He has more than 10 years of experience in software engineering, public and private clouds, DevOps, Data Engineering and Security. He lives in Berlin, Germany with his family.
How to build a data mesh in AWS
In this session, Stoyan will explain the concepts behind the data mesh architecture, how it is different from a classical data lake or data hub and will walk you through the different AWS services needed to build a data mesh. It will be a hands-on session with live coding and a demo.
Nikolay Bunev
Delivery Lead, AWS Professional Services, SoftwareOne
Networking design concepts in AWS
Nikolay is an AWS Solutions Architect with over 15 years of extensive experience in the IT industry. For the past 5 years, his unwavering focus has been on crafting cutting-edge architectures, designing robust solutions, and flawlessly implementing them into the AWS cloud. He has played a pivotal role in guiding numerous AWS customers through their transformative journey of cloud adoption, and helping them with setting up CCoE while conducting training sessions to empower teams with the latest industry best practices.
He has served as a lecturer, leading a university course on AWS in Sofia’s university Faculty of Mathematics and informatics, and is a regular speaker at the AWS User Group Sofia events.
He has been recognised as an AWS Community Builder for 4 years in a row.
Networking design concepts in AWS
In today’s digital landscape, designing a robust and scalable network infrastructure is crucial for the success of any cloud-based application.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a range of networking services and features that allow businesses to build secure, high-performance, and flexible networks.
In this presentation, we will look into essential services such as Amazon VPC, AWS Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site VPN, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Private Link which are the keystones of key networking design concepts and their evolution within the AWS ecosystem and understand how they cohesively align to specific application requirements or business goals in order to contribute to the overall success of your cloud architecture.
Asen Lambrev
Bosch Digital Cloud Guild Leader / Service Delivery Lead
Stanislava Goranovа
Global Account Manager, AWS Automotive
From zero to cloud hero – enterprise transformation in six months. The Bosch Digital journey in AWS cloud enablement
Asen Lambrev, located in Bosch Digital in Sofia, brings 17 years of IT experience, with the past 6 years dedicated to Bosch. With a strong commitment to client-centricity, he specializes in project management and service delivery. Asen is also the founder and leader of the Bosch Digital Cloud Guild, where he actively drives innovation and digital transformation within Bosch."
Stanislava Goranova
Being part of the AWS family since 2017, Stanislava is on a mission to help Automotive and Manufacturing leading enterprises accelerate their cloud transformation. Throughout her career, Stanislava has been helping AWS digital native and enterprise partners and customers in their cloud adoption and pace of innovation. She is located in Munich, Germany, from where she operates as a Global Account Manager, covering customers in APAC, EMEA and North America.
From zero to cloud hero – enterprise transformation in six months. The Bosch Digital journey in AWS cloud enablement
In the rapidly evolving landscape of modern business, adaptability and innovation are essential for sustained success. The story of Bosch Digital’s transformation journey in AWS cloud enablement is a remarkable testament to this reality. In just six months, Bosch Digital, a digital pioneer within Bosch, went from zero to emerging as a cloud hero, spearheading a groundbreaking enterprise transformation by building their Bosch Digital Cloud Guild.
In this talk, Asen Lambrev, Bosch Digital Cloud Guild Leader / Service Delivery Lead, and Stanislava Goranova, Global Account Manager, AWS Automotive, will share their valuable insights on how the Bosch Digital Cloud Guild was established, what were the challenges and successes and how the organizations can benefit from transformational programs like these.
Daniel Rankov
CEO and Chief Cloud Officer, Several Clouds
Managing 100s AWS Accounts
Daniel Rankov builds and leads Several Clouds to become a premier Cloud and DevOps consulting company.
Before that, Daniel Rankov led the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) team and guided the overall Cloud and DevOps strategy at MentorMate. Daniel is in a player-coach role and has multiple certifications on AWS, Azure and Kubernetes. He also leads DevOps and AWS corporate training.
Daniel is co-organizer of the AWS Bulgaria User Group, and in 2021 he was recognized as the first AWS Community Hero in Bulgaria.
Managing 100s AWS Accounts
More and more organizations are adopting AWS multi-account strategies. We see SaaS vendors using dedicated account per client, or companies using separate accounts per environment like Dev/Stage/Prod, or event AWS account per microservice.
This session will review the approaches to managing 100s of AWS accounts and resources.
We will review and share experience for multi-account strategies, what and how many core accounts we need, setting up the "Landing Zone", Identity and Access Management, applying security guardrails, and enabling the account owners to provision resources.
We are going to show how to ease the multi-account management and governance with Amazon services like Control Tower, CloudFormation StackSets, Identity Center, Security Hub, EC2 inventory and patch management with Systems Manager, Inspector, GuardDuty, Transit Gateway, Network Firewall and more.
Provisioning resources with Infrastructure as Code deployment CI/CD pipelines, CloudFormation templates and Product Catalog.
While the time is short, we will dive deep into the most interesting parts.