My AWS Community Builder Journey

Below is a timeline of my activities and contributions as an AWS Community Builder.

2025-03-28
Presentation In Person Generative AI
I spoke at Western Sydney University, presenting on Agentic AI's impact and how AWS influences space.
2025-03-28
Published Book
Published a book called Cloud Native Anti-Patterns
2025-02-17
Technical Presentation In Person Serverless
Spoke at Brisbane Serverless Meetup. Serverless Reinvent announcements that mattered
2025-01-29
Presentation In Person Community/Career/Other
Spoke at AWS User Group Melbourne on Reinvent recap panel.
2025-01-29
Podcast/Audio Dev Tools
Spoke on the Logicata Cast about latest AWS news
2025-01-08
Presentation In Person Community/Career/Other
Spoke at AWS Wollongong User Group. Did a Reinvent Recap
2024-12-04
reInvent Community/Career/Other
Spent time as a representative on the AWS Community Builder & User Group booth
2024-12-04
reInvent Community/Career/Other
Presented a PeerTalk with customers at Reinvent. My session was Building Scalable Microservices Architectures @ 10am in the Venetian Content Hub
2024-12-04
reInvent Generative AI
Spoke at Reinvent: DEV342: IaC and AI: Tales from the Trenches. Presented on the Expo floor theater 3
2024-10-22
Blog Post Dev Tools
Blog about using Amazon Q Developer to change EC2 Userdata to a container/ecs
2024-09-26
Presentation In Person Serverless
Spoke at Baseline connect meetup about lessons in serverless
2024-09-06
Presentation In Person Containers
Spoke at the KCD conference in Sydney. Was part of a kubernetes panel representing the AWS EKS perspective.
2024-09-02
Blog Post Generative AI
Create a blog about SOAP > REST to API GW using Amazon Q Developer
2024-05-21
Presentation In Person Serverless
Spoke at Serverlessdays ANZ about Agnostic Serverless IaC
2024-05-16
Podcast/Audio Serverless
Spoke on the sounding board about serverless databases
2024-04-23
Technical Presentation In Person Generative AI
Spoke and organized the Github User Group with a presentation that focused on co-pair programming and how CodeWhisperer (prior to being renamed to Amazon Q for developers) is an amazing option
2024-04-09
AWS Events Generative AI
We had a booth at AWS Summit Sydney and I was on said booth from 9-10 of April. Great event, a tonne of community collaborations
2024-03-19
Video Dev Tools
Video cast with AWS Hero Johannes Koch where we deep dive into GitOps, CDK and all things GitOps
2024-03-07
Presentation In Person Serverless
Spoke @Sydney Serverless Meetup @ the AWS Office on Market Street Sydney. Spoke on how App Composer and CodeWhisperer bring forward a pathway to Serverless
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2024-02-29
Event Hosting In Person Serverless
Hosted the Brisbane Serverless Meetup @ Mantel Group head office in Fortitude Valley. Had a youtube stream for this as well.
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2024-01-31
Blog Post Serverless
Create a Blog on AWS hosted via Astro SPA and using CDK + Lambda + Cloudfront to add features to it. It will be the focus of all serverless content I publish with cross links to Company blogs and personal blogs
2024-01-31
Presentation In Person Serverless
Spoke at a AWS Recap Panel at the AWS user group Melbourne. Further proof can be found in LinkedIn social posts.
2024-01-18
Presentation In Person Community/Career/Other
Presented a re:Cap at the AWS User Group Wollongong. With a focus on AI and Serverless
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2023-11-29
reInvent Other AWS Services
Spent an hour on the AWS Ambassador booth talking on AWS community and ambassadors
2023-11-29
Podcast/Audio Serverless
AWS Serverless focused podcast episode going through patterns and ways to avoid pitfalls with Serverless in AWS
2023-11-28
reInvent Other AWS Services
Spent an hour with my fellow Community builders @ Reinvent to help out with the Community Developer lounge. Interacted with attendees, spoke on how to join the community and what it entails.
2023-10-27
Podcast/Audio Serverless
Joined a podcast to speak on CDK + Serverless through a Gen AI perspective. How gen AI has contributed to how we shape and form our IaC and the impact it's having.
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2023-10-25
Presentation In Person Serverless
Spoke on our Event Storming activities with a AWS client which we moved from a Java monolith to AWS Lambda + Event Bridge
2023-10-25
Presentation In Person Serverless
Spoke at Domain Drive Design Sydney on how we used Event Storming to get to A Serverless and Event Driven app.
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2023-10-21
Presentation In Person Community/Career/Other
Spoke at South by South West(SXSW) on Careers in IT and how AWS Certs are a great place to separate yourself from the pack.
2023-10-20
Event Hosting In Person Machine Learning
Deep racer event run Melbourne VS Sydney
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2023-10-19
Presentation In Person Serverless
Slide 9 onwards, I did a 10 min demo on Application Composer showing how App composer allows for easy pocing and discovery of sam templates via import of SAM
2023-10-19
Event Hosting In Person Serverless
Ran the Serverless Meetup in Brisbane Queensland. Hosted a Panel on Serverless that deep dived into modern usecase, caveats, when to use, and how to get to serverless. Panel: Steven Cook - Senior AWS SA, Rowan Udell - AWS Ambassador, Brendan Richards - Lead Software engineer
2023-10-06
Podcast/Audio Serverless
First episode of a Serverless focused podcast with guest being AWS Hero Nick Triantafillou, we spoke on his AWS Serverless + IOT implementation of his home christmas lights setup that is featured in Devtember each year.
2023-09-28
Presentation In Person Dev Tools
Spoke at the Tech Talks Australia meetup where I spoke on AI through the devops lens. My main focus here was for people to use CodeWhisperer and how it won't be taking your job, but empowering you in it.
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