Our Expert Instructors
Learn from industry professionals with years of real-world experience
Mike Bainbridge
Mike Bainbridge is an enterprise technology leader with over 20 years of experience, including senior roles at Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. He learned workshop facilitation the hard way, in front of real customers with decisions on the line. He has delivered hundreds of sessions across every level from engineering teams to boardroom executives.
Giuseppe & Max
Giuseppe Battista is a senior solutions architect at Amazon Web Services with more than 12 years of industry experience. He's helped countless enterprise and startup customers build secure and scalable AI solutions on AWS. More recently, his focus has shifted to personal productivity. Massimo Berta started his career in tech as a webmaster in the early 2000s, formerly employed at Apple (Technical Trainer and Instructional Designer) and AWS (Partners Trainer and Startups Solution Architect), always passionate about democratizing access to technology for everyone.
Kate Gawron
Leader in cloud databases | Published author | App Builder | Supercar Instructor | AWS Community Builder
Matheus Guimaraes
馃彈 Architecture & Distributed Systems | 鈽侊笍 Cloud Strategy | 馃摎 Technical Educator | 馃帳 Speaker
Lee Gilmore
AWS Hero | AI-First | AWS North Conference Organiser | International Speaker | Entrepreneur
Sascha M枚llering
Principal Specialist Solutions Architect @ AWS | Platform Engineering | Distributed Systems | AI-Native Software Development
Luca Mezzalira
Distributed Architecture & Micro-Frontends 路 O鈥橰eilly Author 路 International Speaker 路 QCon Cohorts Facilitator 路 Architecture Storyteller & Content Creator
James Eastham
James Eastham is a Serverless Developer Advocate at Datadog, AWS Community Builder, and a Microsoft MVP. He answered phones in front-line support, administered databases, and developed modern application backends with a range of technologies. He worked at AWS, working with some of the biggest companies on the planet, migrating workloads from data centers into the cloud and modernizing in the process. James produces content on YouTube focused on architecting and building applications with serverless technologies using .NET and Rust. He also has a strong interest in and expertise in event-driven architecture and building more loosely coupled systems.
Mark Sailes
Mark Sailes is a principal Solutions Architect at an AWS Partner. Previously he worked at AWS as a Specialist SA for Serverless for 6.5 years. For the last 4 years at AWS he focused on improving the developer experience for Java builders. He worked closely with the AWS Lambda runtimes team as well as the AWS SDK team.