AWS She Builds Tech Skills

Let's celebrate International Women's Day together with hashtag#SheBuilds ! Join Kandyce Bohannon, Tamara Gagliardi and Jigna Gandhi in our "Candid Chat with AWS Solutions Architects" episode. We shared stories from our career path as females in tech, tips and tricks for overcoming imposter syndrome and more.

Our guest for this episode is Nadia Reyhani. Nadia is a full-stack developer and DevOps engineer at Mechanical Rock, Australia's leading cloud native consultancy. In this episode Nadia will talk about using Amazon Bedrock to present a storytelling view using AI-generated text and images.

In this episode, Senior AI/ML Specialist, Romina Sharifpour is our guest. She talks about how her current interests lead to her career in Machine Learning and answers audience questions from algorithms to recommended ways to get into careers in Machine Learning. She demos Amazon Bedrock, which is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading A...

In this episode we are joined by Technology Influencer Kesha Williams from Slalom, who is an AWS ML Hero and AWS Ambassador will be our guest. Learn how she leveraged Machine Learning to predict crime. This episode will dive deep into the architecture and anyone interested in the technology is welcome to join

Generative AI is a powerful technology that can generate realistic and creative content. AWS provides a comprehensive platform for building and deploying Generative AI solutions. With partnerships with foundation model providers like StabilityAI and Hugging Face, Amazon SageMaker offers state-of-the-art infrastructure and tools for developers and businesses. In this session, we will help you to di...

Episode 22 - Security as top priority

In this episode we are joined by Technology Influencer Kesha Williams from Slalom, who is an AWS ML Hero and AWS Ambassador will be our guest. Learn how she leveraged Machine Learning to predict crime. This episode is business focused and tailored to IT professionals and architects; however, anyone interested in the topic is welcome to join!

This episode recorded at re:Invent 2022 talks about what the AWS She Builds Tech Skills show is all about with our hosts based globally in APJ, EMEA and North America. We then dive into how the APJ hosts, May Kyaw and Mai Nishitani became a Solutions Architect and the career path leading up to it. We talk about what we do as Solutions Architects on a daily basis so you might be encouraged to apply...

Episode 19 -Automatic content tagging using Amazon AppFlow and AWS AI Services

In this session, our guest Jyothi Madanlal who is a Solutions Architect from AWS talks about tools to help build your applications for the cloud. She will be showing us a demo with tools including AWS CDK, and Amazon CodeCatalyst, as well as dive into two golden pathways with AWS Lambda, and Amazon Fargate. Make your next workload a delightful experience to develop, deploy, and operate. You can al...

Episode 17 - Infrastructure as Code

Kinnera Vajjala who is a Cloud Architect from AWS Professional Services talks about event-driven architecture patterns with AWS Serverless services for batch jobs such as AWS Lambda and AWS StepFunctions. When would you use batch jobs for your organisation? Financial Services organizations, from fintech startups to longstanding enterprises, have been utilizing batch processing in areas such as hig...

Are you using Kubernetes and want an easy way to bootstrap your clusters with open-source add-ons? In this episode, Anjana Vaidyanatha Iyer talks about fast tracking K8s adoption in your organisation with Amazon EKS Blueprints. More info on EKS Blueprints available here. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/bootstrapping-clusters-with-eks-blueprints/

In this episode, Caroline Johnston who is a Technical Account Manager at AWS, explorers dashboards you can use to optimise your cost and usage on AWS accounts. She also talks about her career at AWS as a Technical Account Manager and what her day to day looks like. Video episode available here on AWS She Builds Tech Skills playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz_z293f_fkWrHB...

In this episode, we will be joined by two recent graduates, Varvara and Ala, both based in London, who will tell us about their experiences as members of the AWS Graduate Program. You will have a chance to learn how to make your first professional steps if you’re still studying or are fresh out of college. And as always, we'll feature a hands-on demo! This time we will have a sneak peak at a susta...

In this episode we have a special guest, Nandini Ramani who is the Vice President of Monitoring at AWS. She was the keynote speaker at AWS ANZ Summit 2023 and the Tech Skills team caught up with her during her busy schedule in Sydney. Nandini talks about her illustrious career in Engineering to Senior roles from Startups to Enterprise organisations. How she’s involved in uplifting women around the...

Rohini Badwal, Director of Product at Brightside, provides an overview of the company and a new category of employee benefits called Financial Care that combines behavioral science, proprietary technology, and expertise from Financial Assistants to improve the financial health of working families.

In this episode, we will conduct a technical Deep Dive on how Wood Mackenzie is leveraging Satellite imagery of Liquefied Natural Gas plants to alert on supply disruption.

In this episode, Mai and May talks about AWS ANZ Summit and the people who support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through their day to day roles in Tech. To register for the on-demand/live-stream content for AWS ANZ Summit 2023 https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/sydney/livestream/ We also speak to Associate Solutions Architect from AWS, Bianca Yuen on how she succeeded in the Tech industry as...

In the first AWS She Builds Tech Skills EMEA episode, we talk about creating cloud native applications. Emilia demonstrates how to achieve this goal without managing any infrastructure and reducing maintenance efforts to absolute minimum. We hear about the capabilities of AWS Amplify, and how it can accelerate the application creation process and simplify environment management. Emilia proves that...

In this special episode for International Women's Day, 3 amazing women in Tech based in Australia talk candidly about their Tech career journey. Some of the topics covered include: What do you do on a daily basis? How did you get into the Tech role that you're currently in? What made you interested in Tech? Our 3 guests for the show: Kris Howard - Head of Dev Rel in Asia-Pacific & Japan, AWS L...