
MEET OUR SUMMIT SPEAKERS

Principal Advocate
Ricardo Sueiras

Over 30 years spent working in the technology industry, helping customers solve business problems with open source and cloud.
Currently I am a Developer Advocate at AWS focusing on open source, where I help raise awareness of AWS and our customers open source projects and technology, and work towards making AWS a great place to run your open source software.

Senior Cloud Advocate
Ismaël Mejía

Ismaël Mejía is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft working on the Azure Data and AI team. He has more than a decade of experience architecting systems for startups and financial companies. He has been recently focused on distributed data systems.
He is an active contributor of many open-source projects like Apache Beam (Google Dataflow SDK) and Apache Avro and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Senior Developer Advocate (CEE)
Wojtek Gawroński

Wojtek is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS dedicated for Central and Eastern European region. Working with Cloud Computing and Data Engineering since 2015 - in different roles: starting from IT Operations Engineer, Software Engineer and Cloud Architect. Functional programming and Serverless architecture aficionado.
9x Certified AWS Specialist. Speaker, lecturer, and content creator.

Lead QA Consultant
Steve Upton

Steve is a Quality Analyst at Thoughtworks who works to build empowered teams, capable of delivering and taking ownership of quality. He has worked on a wide variety of products, from mainframes to microservices and has a particular interest in complex socio-technical systems and how we work with them. He is passionate about complexity theory, building quality into culture and testing as part of continuous delivery in modern, distributed architectures. Outside of work, Steve enjoys travel and mountains.