AWS She Builds Tech Skills is a program designed to showcase women and their technical skills and advance their careers in the tech industry.
Hear from AWS Solutions Architects and our guests from around the world on how they architected their Cloud solution.
You can also learn about how they built their career on Cloud.
With a focus on AWS Cloud services and hands-on learning experiences, this program provides the perfect opportunity for all technologists to build their expertise and career in the Cloud.
We're also streaming live on the AWS Twitch channel, so if you want to see the demos and the architecture, head over to our Twitch live session on https://www.twitch.tv/aws every 3rd Thursday at 6-7PM US Pacific Time.
We're also available via YouTube on the AWS She Builds channel here. https://www.youtube.com/@awsshebuilds6774
In this session, our guest Pratima Singh who is a Senior ANZ Security Specialist Solutions Architect goes through the core concept of modern observability. You'll learn the differences between SLI, SLO, SLA and the golden signals to look out for.
Join us on the next AWS She Builds Tech Skills episode with the American College of Radiology! Shree Periakaruppan Senior Director Data Engineering and Analytics at the American College of Radiology (ACR) and Meesam Shah , Data Team Lead/Architect will dive into the technical implementation on how they moved away from their on-premises architecture to AWS. This allowed ACR to support 10X growth in their data. We will walk through ACR’s HIPAA compliant data lake and how they achieved 7X cost savi...
In this episode, Christina Chen who is a Site Reliability Engineer at Mantel Group talks about observability on Amazon EKS. She also talks about what she does on a daily basis as an SRE and how she pivoted from a completely different field into a tech role.
Join us on our next episode to learn how the American College of Radiology (ACR) solved for the technology needs of its Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute when growth of data outpaced their on-premises server capabilities. We will share a live demo that highlights how ACR leverages AWS cloud to enable secure and efficient research analytics of over 300TB of health care claims data for peer-reviewed research and online data tools including the new Cancer Equity Compass....
Aspiring to excel as an AWS Customer Solutions Manager (CSM)? Join Deanne and Brittany for an AWS She Builds coffee chat featuring Mary and Dana, experienced AWS CSMs, as they share career insights and advice for women in tech. Get an inside look at the CSM role, from daily responsibilities to essential skills. Mary and Dana will draw from their personal journeys, exploring the unique challenges and opportunities women face in the AWS ecosystem. Discover strategies for navigating the CSM intervi...
@Shamsah Hirani, Director at Teradata, shares her experiences as a woman in tech. She discusses her career journey, building technical skills, and the importance of mentorship and community for women in the industry. Shamsah offers valuable advice. Don't miss Shamsah's insightful perspectives on the challenges and strategies for women building successful careers in the tech field.
Join our next episode where we host three amazing interns from the Amazon Future Engineers program. Megan Grow, Kyndal Dixon, and Vennela Jonnala share their experiences working at a cutting edge tech company this past summer.
Join us for an insightful panel discussion where we will showcase how our amazing women champions support in accelerating Generative AI adoption and taking it from theory to practice. You will gain insights into both technical and non-technical strategies and practical applications!
Watch this episode with Optima Tax Relief! Shuba shares how implementing Amazon Connect helped multiple teams across the organization including the payments, tax professionals, tax preparers, compliance and case managers. Learn how they were able to leverage Amazon Connect features to increase agent productivity, reduce cost and increase sales. Ayesha walks through the architecture that helps Optima Tax Relief increase their revenue by supporting the sales teams.
Optima Tax Relief - Improve customer experience with Amazon Connect Join us for our next episode to learn how Optima Tax Relief helps individuals and small business owners resolve and manage IRS and state tax debt. Shubha will share her career in technology and how she supports Optima Tax Relief’s core products. Learn how Amazon Connect helped improved customer experience and reduce operational cost. You will hear first hand implementation lessons and what it takes to successfully migrate a cont...
In this series on DevOps on AWS, we have Kate Vu who is a Cloud Consultant from AWS partner, Mantel Group. She talks about Mantel Group's trainee program which helps diverse candidates become skilled in DevOps and Cloud. She also talks about building a Serverless pipeline using AWS CDK and Amazon ECS.
In the DevOps series of Tech Skills, our guest Nicola Smyth who is a Solutions Architect with the ANZ Startup Team talks about how to enhance builder productivity with Amazon Q for Developer. She dives into how Amazon's Next Gen dev tooling with Amazon Q Developer can help to speed up different stages of the software development lifecycle from understanding code, testing, and maintaining repos.
In this session, Dipali who is the Vice President of Data Engineering at Natwest Group talks about being an AWS Community Hero based in Delhi, India. She talks about how to ulock and share data securely with Amazon Datazone.
In this episode, Suzana Moraes who is a Full Stack Developer from Futureverse talks about being a Community builder in New Zealand. She also talks about her project she build on Amazon Rekognition.
Join this episode of AWS She Builds with your hosts Kandyce Bohannon and Eileen Lee as we learn more about the career journey of Michelle Johnson, CEO at Metrum Research Group, a company on a mission to defeat disease through their quantitative approach to drug development. In this revealing episode, we delve into the remarkable path that led this marketing maven to the forefront of Life Sciences innovation. Witness her fearless transition from the world of branding and professional sports to th...
Join us for an insightful episode with Swarna Mani, Director of Platform Engineering at Rithum. Swarna will share her journey with their Data Center migration to AWS and her experiences as a woman in the tech industry.
Zeenia Irani sits down with She Builds hosts, Han Tran and Kandyce Bohannon, and explore FINCA International's impactful work in driving social change and empowering women globally. Zeenia Irani, Director of Strategic Initiatives at FINCA, shares her personal journey and passion for working at a nonprofit organization dedicated to alleviating poverty. She discusses how FINCA is forging strategic partnerships, leveraging technology with AWS, and championing female leadership to tackle the multidi...
Join Kandyce Bohannon as she sits down with tech trailblazers from AHEAD, Shannon Kuehn and Gina Mirando, to talk about their journeys. You will hear about overcoming obstacles, maintaining work-life balance, and shattering stereotypes along the way. Whether you're already in tech or aspiring to enter it, you will get priceless insights and career advice from those who have walked the walk.
In this session, Wendy Wong who is a Data Scientist and AWS Data Hero talks about her journey from AWS Community Builder to Hero status. She also demonstrates Amazon Q for Quicksight using Spotify and Starbucks data sets.
In this session we Nadia Reihani who is a Full Stack Engineer from Trusst AI talks about her Devember project using real-time event-driven architecture with Amazon Rekognition and Serverless services like AWS Lambda and Amazon SNS. She also talks about how she became an AWS Machine Learning Community Builder and how you can join too.
Faster, Safer Development: How Cars.com Created and Scaled their Cloud Center of Excellence Join Kandyce Bohannon and Pragya Purohit on our next episode as we host Stella Camacho, Senior Engineering Manager of Cars.com. We will talk about the journey Cars.com went through to create their CCoE and enable development teams to rapidly and securely deploy applications following best practices.
Episode 31: Transforming Customer Experience: The Modernization of Mutual of Omaha's Contact Center, Part 2
On our next episode of AWS She Builds Tech Skills NA MJ Lola (Zulueta) and Kandyce Bohannon will talk with Dawn Pielstick from Mutual of Omaha. Dawn will talk about how they used AWS to modernize their contact centers and increase customer satisfaction while improving scalability and development flexibility and velocity....
Join us for our next episode where we will explore how Fresenius Medical Care built near real-time predictive analytics solution which provided better personalize care to patients undergoing dialysis treatment and helped deliver alerts for potential adverse events. We will hear directly from Hanjie Zhang , Director of Computational Statistics & Artificial Intelligence and Kanti Singh , Director of Data platform, engineering and data management at FMC. This episode is tailored to Business and...
Curious about vision planning and achieving your goals? How AWS builders achieve certifications and work life balance? The idea of writing out an annual vision may seem silly or even frivolous to some. Chat with us about setting up your vision: A study conducted by Dr. Gail Matthews at Dominican University, participants who wrote down their goals were 42% more likely to achieve them than those who didn't write them down. The simple yet powerful ritual of drafting a vision and revisiting it daily...
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 AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon. You can leverage thes...
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
