Overview of Building AI Apps on AWS

Fred Favelin globally leads Cloud Partners Solutions Architecture at MongoDB. Passionate about the challenges around data, Frédéric assists key accounts and cloud partners in building their applications and implementing their Big Data, IoT, or Artificial Intelligence projects as part of their digital transformation. Specializing in the Telecom and Finance sectors, he is involved from the initial identification of business needs to the implementation of complex architectures. He also helps the technical teams of his customers and cloud partners to improve their skills.

Igor Alekseev is a Principal Data and Analytics Partner Solutions Architect at AWS. In his role, Igor works with strategic partners to help them build complex, AWS-optimized architectures. Over the years, Igor has worked with Databricks, Splunk, and Datadog. Currently, Igor is a dedicated Partner SA for MongoDB. Prior to joining AWS, as a Data/Solution Architect he implemented many projects in the Big Data domain, including several data lakes in the Hadoop ecosystem. As a Data Engineer, he was involved in applying AI/ML to fraud detection and office automation.

Parker is a Curriculum Engineer on the Education team at MongoDB. Prior to joining MongoDB, he helped maintain a world class developer bootcamp that was offered in multiple universities. He is a self taught developer who loves being able to give back to the community that has helped him so much.

Sarah is a Senior Curriculum Engineer on the Curriculum team at MongoDB. Prior to MongoDB, she taught and developed curricula for developer bootcamps. Sarah has a MAT degree from Columbia University Teachers College and studied Software Engineering at Flatiron School in Chicago, IL.

Manuel is a Senior Technologist on the Curriculum team at MongoDB. Previously he was a Senior Technical Services Engineer in the Core team at MongoDB. In between Manuel worked as a database reliability engineer at Slack for a little over 2 years and then for Cognite until he re-joined MongoDB. With over 15 years experience in software development and distributed systems, he is naturally curious and holds a Telecommunications Engineering MSc from Vigo University (Spain) and a Free and Open Source Software MSc from Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain).

Colleen is a Curriculum Designer at MongoDB. She holds a Masters degree in English literature from NYU, and is passionate about using writing as a vehicle to teach. She has worked as a writing instructor and ghostwriter, and has spent her career focused on educational content development. For several years, Colleen was the lead editor for The Princeton Review’s “Cracking the SAT” and other test prep books. Prior to MongoDB, she was Senior Managing Editor for boot camp courses on data science and fintech, partnering with subject matter experts to design and deliver courses for learners of all levels.

Emily Pope is a Senior Curriculum Designer at MongoDB. She loves learning and loves making it easy for others to learn how and when to use deeply technical products. Recently, she's been creating AI and vector search content for MongoDB University. Before that, she's created learning experiences on databases, computer science, full stack development, and even clinical trial design and analysis. Emily holds an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education and began her career as an English teacher in Turkiye with the Fulbright program.