Hazel Sáenz

Hazel is a Software Architect at Cognits, a software development company that assists businesses in the U.S. and Latin America.

She has been involved in software creation and design for over two decades, starting with on-premise applications, and then transitioning to cloud-based applications in the recent years. Her primary focus is modernizing on-premise applications to cloud environments using AWS as her cloud provider, predominantly designing high workload architectures in Serverless frameworks.

Hazel enjoys sharing her knowledge with the community through technical talks at local and international events, participating in AWS Summits, AWS Community Days, and meetups, as well as writing technical articles in both English and Spanish. You can find her content here. Additionally, Hazel is the leader of the AWS User Group Guatemala, where she excels at organizing inclusive events and bringing her knowledge back to the community.