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Dani Traphagen is a Senior Startup Solutions Architect focused on the Life Sciences space. She has a passion for helping customers in bringing their ideas to reality. She studied Molecular and Cellular Biology in school and worked in the IT department all throughout college. Following graduation, Dani contracted at GitHub and began working with Startups in the open source software space. She has worked as a Technical Trainer and Solution Architect at DataStax, GridGain and Confluent. Dani now brings her scientific experience to the interface of cloud computing to support her customers at AWS. She also advises on the Startup journey and helps others to navigate the process of growing their business. In her free time, you can catch Dani in any kind of water sport. If it has two hydrogens and an oxygen, she’ll be there with a board.

Darko a Senior Developer Advocate based in Seattle, WA. His goal is to share his passion and technological know-how with Engineers, Developers, Builders, and tech enthusiasts across the world. If it can be automated, he will definitely try to do so. Most of Darko's focus is towards DevOps and Management Tools, where automation, pipelines, and efficient developer tools is the name of the game – click less and code more so you do not repeat yourself - is his motto! As a passionate collector of old computers, he has a collection of computers and games and they came as an inspiration to tinker with computers as much as possible! Like deploy AWS infrastructure through a Commodore 64.