AWS Ambassador Program
Recognizing AWS Ambassadors’ impact and dedication
About the Program
The AWS Ambassador Program builds a community of AWS professionals. These professionals are thought leaders at an influential position at AWS Partners. AWS Ambassadors drive their organization's AWS proficiency and share their thought leadership. AWS Ambassadors have fundamental AWS expertise and experience supporting our customers in their success with the AWS cloud. The program fosters sharing with and collaborating among peers in the community and AWS.

Meet the Ambassadors
Total results: 270
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NAMER
Trevor Sullivan (Stratusgrid)
Solutions ArchitectTrevor Sullivan is a Solutions Architect at StratusGrid and a software industry professional with more than 20 years of cloud and automation experience.Ambassador Since: 2025 -
ASEAN
Ravi Channavajhala (Accenture)
AWS Solutions ArchitectA technologist with an innovative spirit and exceptional motivation, Ravi brings to the table over 20 years of IT experience with the financial industry in the areas of Investment Banking, Equities and Fixed Income Trading etc. He has proven track record of designing and implementing pioneering cloud solutions in large IT enterprises, utilizing hyperscaler providers such as AWS.
Ambassador Since: 2025 -
NAMER
Nausheen Jawed (PwC)
Director, Cloud EngineeringNausheen is an AWS Solutions Architect in PwC's Cloud Engineering practice based out of Washington, DC. She has over 9 years of experience designing and building solutions in the cloud space, with a focus on reliability and security. She is a builder at heart, who enjoys upskilling on emerging cloud services and mentoring new graduates on ways to build a career in cloud.Ambassador Since: 2025 -
NAMER
Clement Pakkam Isaac (Deloitte)
Specialist SeniorClement Pakkam Isaac is a Specialist Senior at Deloitte Consulting and a distinguished Solutions Architect holding 15 AWS certifications. With over 12 years of experience in technical consulting and leadership, he has designed and implemented large-scale cloud solutions for the higher education and consumer industries. Clement’s expertise spans Automation, Generative AI, Resiliency, Observability, Security, Migration, Modernization, and Digital transformation. As a trusted advisor, he empowers organizations to adopt advanced cloud practices and drive innovation through scalable and secure cloud infrastructure solutions.Ambassador Since: 2025 -
EMEA
Cedric De Schepper (Deloitte)
Solutions ArchitectCedric De Schepper is a Solutions Architect at Deloitte. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing cloud infrastructures across industries. He works closely with clients to assess current environments, plan cloud migrations, and lead the technical execution of proposed solutions.Ambassador Since: 2025 -
INDIA
Akhil Khandelwal (AceCloud)
Sr Manager AWSAkhil, the Senior Manager of AWS Migration at RTDS, brings over 13 years of experience in the IT industry. His technical expertise is reflected through a suite of prestigious certifications, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty, Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer, AWS SysOps Administrator, and ITIL v3. As a Distinguished Cloud Architect, he possesses in-depth experience in architecture, design, solution building, business transitions, data center migrations, cloud foundation establishment, and cloud adoption acceleration. He is dedicated to continuous learning and expanding his expertise in essential technology domains. His specializations include cloud solutions, Cloud Adoption roadmaps, blogging, consulting, and relationship management with people, clients, and stakeholdersAmbassador Since: 2025 -
KOREA
Cheolgu Lee (LGCNS)
Cloud professional service team leaderCheol Gu Lee has worked as as an IT Architect and Consultant for IT at LGCNS for 25 years, including consulting on LG global IT Center, Build Private Cloud for customer, and consulting on transition to public cloud. Successfully carried out mass migration to AWS by leading the AWS 70in70 Project to transform LG CNS' entire IT environment to AWS. Contributing to establishing customer's Public Cloud First strategy and leading the expansion of public cloud by sharing quarterly Cloud Trend Reports, made direction suggestions to key customers in each field.
Ambassador Since: 2024 -
NAMER
Jeff serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at ClearScale, where he leads technical teams and oversees the company’s technical strategy. He is a lifelong learner, with over 13 years of experience in AWS technologies, Jeff was among the first globally to achieve both the AWS Solutions Architect Professional and AWS DevOps Professional certifications. He has a proven track record of leading diverse technical teams across multiple disciplines, including software development, IoT, big data, serverless computing, data science, enterprise cloud migration, and DevOps transformation. Residing in Austin, TX, with his wife and four children, Jeff enjoys the city’s vibrant music scene.
Ambassador Since: 2024 -
NAMER
Zakaria Dahani (Eviden)
Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer / AWS GenAI ArchitectZakaria is a Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and an AWS Generative AI Architect at Eviden. Zakaria has more than 8 years of experience on small and large scale AWS projects including Cloud Landing Zones, Hub&Spoke network architectures, event driven security architectures, IAC using terraform, AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK, CI/CD using tools such as Github Action, Bitbucket pipeline, Gitlab CI, and AWS CodePipeline, Microservices Architectures using ECS, Fargate and EKS, Big Data architectures, Serverless architectures, End User Computing (EUC) using Amazon Appstream and Workspace, Data Migration using Amazon Datasync and Snowball, and Generative AI using Amazon Bedrock. He has also worked on Disaster Recovery Strategy, and conducted the AWS Well Architected Framework Review for some clients. Zakaria has also delivered online training to accelerate team ramp-up on the AWS cloud. With his Engineering Degree and a MSc degree in Big Data, Zakaria is also an AWS Generative AI Architect and has strong foundations on Data Lake, ML, MLOps, LLM, LLMOps, GenOps, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Prompt Engineering, Knowledge Base, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Embedding, Vector Store, LLM Agent, Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock. He is also working on building the Eviden’s GenOps Framework and contributed to obtain the AWS Generative AI Competency for Eviden. Zakaria holds all the AWS 15 Certifications.
Ambassador Since: 2024 -
EMEA
Zipporah Wachira (Silicon Overdrive)
AWS Cloud Solutions ArchitectZipporah Wachira (Zippy) is an accomplished AWS Cloud Solutions Architect at Silicon Overdrive, with over five years of experience in the ICT industry. Beginning her career in Networking Technologies, Zippy transitioned to cloud technologies three years ago, where she discovered her passion for architecting innovative solutions and guiding clients through complex cloud migration journeys.Ambassador Since: 2024 -
APAC
JinFeng is the CTO of Xiamen Hanwei Software Technology, he has been engaged in IT industry for more than 10 years. Before entering the field of cloud computing, he was mainly engaged in system integration. He was responsible for SAP ECC and HANA projects in the manufacturing industry, and Oracle RAC database upgrade and transformation projects in the medical and financial industries. He has relevant experience in hardware and application disaster recovery and high availability. In 2017, he entered the field of cloud computing and joined Amazon Cloud and worked as an SA. He studied and researched in computing, networking, database and serverless.
Ambassador Since: 2024 -
EMEA
Miguel Angel Muñoz Sanchez (Logicalis)
AWS Senior Architect and Technical LeaderMiguel is a Cloud Architect at Logicalis Spain with vast experience in Infrastructure and Cloud environments. He has worked the last few years helping customers on their journey to the cloud and has been involved in several large enterprise projects to implement Cloud native and hybrid cloud solutions.
Ambassador Since: 2024 -
INDIA
Adit Modi (Lauren)
Solutions ArchitectAdit Modi is a Solutions Architect at Lauren with over a decade of hands-on experience in cloud and DevOps. He holds 10 AWS certifications and specializes in AWS-related DevOps, Data Engineering, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). As an AWS Ambassador and HashiCorp Ambassador, Adit is a passionate advocate for community-driven growth, actively contributing to the tech community as a speaker, organizer, and volunteer.
Ambassador Since: 2024 -
UKIR
Ivan Casco (StratusGrid)
Principal Solutions ArchitectIvan holds all AWS certifications and brings a deep passion for Cloud Architecture and DevOps adoption. With extensive experience architecting systems at internet scale across multi-region environments, he excels in designing solutions that balance technical innovation with real-world business needs. He is always evolving and investigating to be on top of the field in every single project I touch, whether its Cloud, Software Development, DevOps or ML/AI.
Ambassador Since: 2024 -
INDIA
Nagababu Medicharla (Searce)
Senior ManagerNagababu Medicharla is a Lead Cloud Architect at Searce. He has overall 10+ years of experience across AWS, Network & Security, Governance & Compliance, DevOps, Kubernetes, IOT & AI. He has designed and Implemented Large Scale Data Center Exit programs and Cloud Migrations to AWS. He has helped several Startups, FinTech and HealthTech companies in modernizing the legacy applications to latest microservices and serverless architecture. He frequently publishes his work and learnings on Medium and LinkedIn. He actively connects with industry experts, fellow Architects and novice cloud engineers to contribute and share knowledge.Ambassador Since: 2024 -
UKIR
Prasenjit Roychoudhury (TCS)
Cloud ArchitectPrasenjit Roychoudhury is AWS Technical Architect with Tata Consultancy Services. He has 20+ years experience in architecting solution for large and complex projects in digital transformation programs in various markets. Prasenjit is passionate about leveraging AWS services to solve business use cases for highly available and scalable applications. He is currently working as AWS Architect while supporting complex applications in production environment and reviewing new architecture designs for cloud transformation journey. Prasenjit has extensive experience of AWS solution design, architecture, observability and cost optimization. Prasenjit is passionate about cloud learning. He specializes in solution architecture including Microservices based architectures using DevOps model. His area of interest includes ML use cases and models. He mentors and interacts with Technical Leads on solution architecture and observability in cloud.
Ambassador Since: 2024 -
EMEA
Julian Michel (Capgemini)
Managing IT Architect Cloud/AWSJulian Michel is a Managing IT Architect at XL2 by Audi & Capgemini, with a strong focus on the automotive industry. As the Team Leader of the Custom Cloud Solutions team and Thought Leader within the internal AWS community, he plays a key role in driving AWS cloud projects and strategy. Julian's technical expertise focuses on serverless cloud applications and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enabling scalable and efficient solutions for clients. His background as an SAP Consultant in Smart Manufacturing has also made him a specialist in AWS-SAP integration. Since 2020, Julian has held multiple AWS certifications, including both Professional-level certifications, underscoring his deep technical knowledge.
Ambassador Since: 2024 -
APAC - INDIA
Gaurav Kankaria (Oneture)
Head of Analytics and AI/MLGaurav is the Head of Analytics and AI/ML at Oneture Technologies with close to a decade of experience in problem-solving using Analytics and AI/ML solutions in the Retail and BFSI Industry. He has implemented scalable Data Lakes and Warehousing solutions for multiple Global organizations from India. These solutions were further used by businesses in downstream analytics (visualization tools and Rapid Insights) and AI/ML (prediction, recommendation, customer analytics) solutions, leading to significant Top-Line and Bottom-Line impact for its customers.
Ambassador Since: 2024 -
INDIA
Varun Kumar (Amdocs)
Software ArchitectVarun is an accomplished professional with more than 12 years of diversified experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Software Configuration, Build/Release Management, System/ Cloud Administration, Support, and Maintenance of Linux & Windows server environments throughout the software development lifecycle - from development to production. He has sound knowledge of CloudFormation, shell scripting, Docker, Packer, Jenkins, Terraform, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild CodeCommit, CodePipeline and other DevOps tools. Varun also has expertise driving automation deeply into software development processes with Ansible, shell scripting, and jenkins in order to enhance the CI/CD processes. He is a certified Expert in IaaS on AWS, and maintains a YouTube channel where he vlogs about cloud adoption and AWS-related topics.
Ambassador Since: 2024 -
INDIA
Ramandeep Kalear (Tech Mahindra)
Solution ArchitectRamandeep Kalear is a Solution Architect at Tech Mahindra based out of Gurgaon. She has 17 years of experience specializing in Cloud Architecture, Technical Solution design, Strategy, Consulting, Development and Data Center migrations. She assists companies in their cloud transformation journey by designing solutions that empower them to achieve business objectives. As part of TechM Practice team, she has been instrumental in leading TechM to achieve AWS competencies (like Telco, Automotive, SAP, Network, Cloud operations) and service delivery (like EKS, WAF, Service Catalog). Her career spanning from working with ITSM tools to Hybrid cloud to Automation-RPA and now to Cloud Architect demonstrates a drive for continuous learning. Raman is passionate about AWS and is currently certified in AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty and AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerAmbassador Since: 2024 -
EMEA
Sven Seiler (Reply)
PartnerSven Seiler is a seasoned leader in cloud technologies with over two decades of experience in business development and digital transformation. Since 2014, he has specialized in Cloud Adoption, Migrations, Internet of Things and Modern Application Development within the AWS ecosystem. As Managing Director of Storm Reply and Partner at Reply, an AWS Premier Partner, Sven leads a team dedicated to crafting innovative cloud solutions that empower businesses to scale and thrive in the digital era. Beyond management, Sven is committed to knowledge-sharing and innovation, regularly writing blog posts (e.g. on the latest GenAI services), speaking at AWS events, and delivering university lectures to inspire the next generation of cloud experts. A passionate advocate for community building, Sven has organized the AWS User Groups in Dortmund and Düsseldorf, creating a space for collaboration, learning, and networking within the AWS DACH region. Despite his extensive expertise, Sven remains committed to continuous learning and staying ahead in the evolving cloud industry. His strategic and hands-on approach ensures that every project is efficient, scalable, and future-proof for long-term success.Ambassador Since: 2024 -
EMEA
Håkon Eriksen Drange (Sopra Steria)
Principal Cloud ArchitectHåkon Eriksen Drange is based in Oslo, Norway and holds the position as Principal Cloud Architect at Sopra Steria, acting as AWS Competency Lead and Well-Architected Program Lead. With more than a decade of experience with AWS he is a subject-matter-expert which advises project teams and clients on how to increase quality and pace of innovation in areas such as cloud transformation strategy, modernization, DevOps and Continuous Delivery, all anchored in Well-Architected principles. Håkon has a passion for automation, infrastructure-as-code, evolving architecture, high scalability and security. He actively contributes to the community by sharing his thought leadership and experience as public speaker and blogger.Ambassador Since: 2024 -
EMEA
Marco Kuendig is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at copebit AG, an advanced AWS consulting partner based in Switzerland. With a deep-rooted expertise in AWS technologies, Marco has been an influential figure in the AWS ecosystem since 2014. He is the founder and owner of the "Containers on AWS" meetup, fostering a community of professionals passionate about containerization and cloud-native solutions. Marco frequently presents at AWS events, where he shares his knowledge on Kubernetes, artificial intelligence, and databases. His presentations are known for their clarity and practical insights, making complex topics accessible to a wide audience. He is a strong advocate for cloud migration, emphasizing the strategic advantages of DevSecOps practices and the transformative potential of AWS services. Marco's professional journey is marked by a dedication to education and community engagement. He excels in conveying the benefits of cloud adoption, aiming to equip organizations with the tools and knowledge necessary to thrive in the digital era. His commitment to continuous learning and innovation underscores his role as a thought leader in the cloud computing domain.Ambassador Since: 2024 -
JAPAN
Keisuke Matsuda (Iret)
EngineerKeisuke Matsuda is a Infrastructure Engineer at Iret with experience in system development. He is mainly responsible for cloud infrastructure and observability. He writes technical blog posts on the company blog called “iret.media”.Ambassador Since: 2024
Frequently Asked Questions
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Who can be an AWS Ambassador?
AWS Ambassadors are AWS professionals within the AWS Partner community. They are thought leaders and influential in driving proficiency on the AWS cloud at their partner organizations.
AWS Ambassadors are passionate about AWS and share their passion and expertise internally through presentations, study groups and workshops, and externally through public speaking, writing blog posts or white papers, publishing articles, and sharing content on social media.
In this capacity, AWS Ambassadors are instrumental in driving proficiency at their organization through various APN programs and AWS certifications, as well as launching new opportunities and developing offerings to support customers in their success on the AWS platform.
The AWS Ambassador holds either a business or technical leadership role at their organization.
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How do AWS Ambassadors differ from AWS Heroes?
AWS Ambassadors are considered an extension of the AWS partner team and are focused on influencing their organization's AWS proficiency and thought leadership. They share their expertise both internally and externally through publicly consumable content.
In contrast, AWS Heroes are recognized individuals for their significant contributions to the AWS community. They are not directly tied to an AWS partner, but instead focus on sharing their knowledge and passion for AWS through various community-focused activities.
While some individuals may hold both AWS Ambassador and AWS Hero titles, the programs have distinct goals, with Ambassadors primarily serving their organization, and Heroes serving the broader AWS community.
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How can I apply to become an AWS Ambassador?
To apply for the AWS Ambassador program, you must:
- Be an employee of an AWS Partner organization
- Be driving your organization's AWS proficiency and adoption
- Share your AWS expertise and thought leadership both internally and externally
- Reach out to your AWS Partner Solutions Architect or Partner Manager to initiate the application process
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I couldn’t find an AWS Ambassador in my region, How can I find a partner to help me with a project?
Please use the AWS Partner Solutions Finder to find a partner based on industry, use case, product, or keyword.
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My question is not listed here. How can I get help?
The AWS Partner team continues to improve the AWS Ambassador Program based on customer feedback. If you have feedback or questions, please reach out to your AWS Partner Solutions Architect or Partner Manager.
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