Meet the Newest AWS Heroes (September 2018 Edition)

AWS Heroes are passionate AWS enthusiasts who use their extensive knowledge to teach others about all things AWS across a range of mediums. Many Heroes eagerly share knowledge online via forums, social media, or blogs; while others lead AWS User Groups or organize AWS Community Day events. Their extensive efforts to spread AWS knowledge have a significant impact within their local communities. Today we are excited to introduce the newest AWS Heroes:

• Jaroslaw Zielinksi
• Jerry Hargrove
• Martin Buberl

Jaroslaw Zielinski – Poznan, Poland

AWS Community Hero Jaroslaw Zielinski is a Solutions Architect at Vernity in Poznan (Poland), where his responsibility is to support customers on their road to the cloud using cloud adoption patterns. Jaroslaw is a leader of AWS User Group Poland operating in 7 different cities around Poland. Additionally, he connects the community with the biggest IT conferences in the region – PLNOG, DevOpsDay, Amazon@Innovation to name just a few.

He supports numerous projects connected with evangelism, like Zombie Apocalypse Workshops or Cloud Builder’s Day. Bringing together various IT communities, he hosts a conference Cloud & Datacenter Day – the biggest community conference in Poland. In addition, his passion for IT is transferred into his own blog called Popołudnie w Sieci. He also publishes in various professional papers.

 

Jerry Hargrove – Kalama, USA

AWS Community Hero Jerry Hargrove is a cloud architect, developer and evangelist who guides companies on their journey to the cloud, helping them to build smart, secure and scalable applications. Currently with Lucidchart, a leading visual productivity platform, Jerry is a thought leader in the cloud industry and specializes in AWS product and services breakdowns, visualizations and implementation. He brings with him over 20 years of experience as a developer, architect & manager for companies like Rackspace, AWS and Intel.

You can find Jerry on Twitter compiling his famous sketch notes and creating Lucidchart templates that pinpoint practical tips for working in the cloud and helping developers increase efficiency. Jerry is the founder of the AWS Meetup Group in Salt Lake City, often contributes to meetups in the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco Bay area, and speaks at developer conferences worldwide. Jerry holds several professional AWS certifications.

 

Martin Buberl – Copenhagen, Denmark

AWS Community Hero Martin Buberl brings the New York hustle to Scandinavia. As VP Engineering at Trustpilot he is on a mission to build the best engineering teams in the Nordics and Baltics. With a person-centered approach, his focus is on high-leverage activities to maximize impact, customer value and iteration speed — and utilizing cloud technologies checks all those boxes.

His cloud-obsession made him an early adopter and evangelist of all types of AWS services throughout his career. Nowadays, he is especially passionate about Serverless, Big Data and Machine Learning and excited to leverage the cloud to transform those areas.

Martin is an AWS User Group Leader, organizer of the AWS Community Day Nordics and founder of the AWS Community Nordics Slack. He has spoken at multiple international AWS events — AWS User Groups, AWS Community Days and AWS Global Summits — and is looking forward to continue sharing his passion for software engineering and cloud technologies with the Community.

To learn more about the AWS Heroes program or to connect with an AWS Hero in your community, click here.

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