AWS Community Day South Florida Miami Edition 2026

AM Grobelny

Cloud Architecture & DevOps

I've spent the past 10+ years working on or helping people work on software. I was also a professional educator previously in my career, so I have a particular passion for helping people more easily understand difficult concepts. I currently work at AWS, and I'm focused on helping people learn through experience by using AWS GameDay.

Darko Mesaroš

General

Darko Mesaros is a Distinguished Developer Advocate at AWS, focused on developer productivity, Rust, and AI coding assistants. He created AWS's "Build On Live" livestream program — over 1,500 episodes reaching more than 1.3 million developers — and has spoken at 100+ conferences, including AWS re:Invent. Off camera, he restores vintage computers and puts them to work in ways they were never meant for.

I am a Sr. Customer Solutions Manager in AWS Strategic Accounts. Based in South Florida.

Francisco Arencibia Quesada

Security, Data & Analytics

Francisco Arencibia is a Senior DevOps Engineer and Cloud Architect specializing in AWS, DevSecOps, and Platform Engineering. He is a frequent international conference speaker, founder of XOps Conference, and Chapter Leader of AiSec Engineers Spain. Passionate about automation, cloud security, and AI, he enjoys sharing real-world lessons learned from operating production environments.

Johnathan DeSarro

Cloud Architecture & DevOps

Johnathan DeSarro is a Systems Engineer at Christ Fellowship Church, where he works with enterprise infrastructure spanning networking, servers, virtualization, endpoint management, security, and cloud technologies. His passion for technology extends well beyond the workplace through an extensive home lab and years of experimenting with self-hosted services, virtualization, and game servers. Johnathan enjoys turning complex infrastructure into something practical, approachable, and fun. Whether he is building out enterprise systems or experimenting in his home lab, he is always looking for new ways to make technology more useful, and occasionally more entertaining.

Jon Sastre

AI/ML & Modern Applications

Jon Sastre is the Artificial Intelligence Practice Director at CloudHesive, where he helps organizations design and deploy secure, scalable, enterprise-grade AI solutions. With more than 25 years of experience in technology, cloud, and digital transformation, Jon brings a unique combination of technical expertise, business strategy, and executive leadership. Prior to joining CloudHesive, Jon's prior role and experience at Amazon Web Services (AWS) involved working closely with customers and partners to accelerate cloud and AI adoption. He is also an experienced educator and former Adjunct Professor at Florida International University, where he taught AI and Data Strategy & Data Governance. Jon holds an undergraduate and  Master’s degree in Management Information Systems from F.I.U. and multiple industry certifications across AWS, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft, and Google Generative AI.

Julissa Rodriguez

Cloud Architecture & DevOps

Tech Lead at Enara Health & AWS Community Builder

Lamech Bob-Manuel

Cloud Architecture & DevOps

Lamech "Mac" Bob-Manuel is a 15 year Benefits Administration Technology Leader with experience in Software Development and Data Integrations. He holds a BA from the University of Central Florida and is a proud alumnus of Miami Carol City Senior High School. He is 2x AWS Certified, helps lead the West Palm Beach AWS User Group, and is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

Luis Guirigay

Cloud Architecture & DevOps

Luis Guirigay is the WW Head of Infrastructure Solutions at AWS where he leads the technical offerings and business strategies for Compute, Storage and Networking Solutions. Luis and his team build and deliver production-ready, supported AWS Solutions which help customers and partners solve their most pressing use cases and challenges. He is a published author, speaker, and subject matter expert in the areas of cloud, performance engineering, high availability, and disaster recovery.

Mar García

Security, Data & Analytics

Mar García is the Founder and CEO of HOPE Consulting Group, a digital engineering firm focused on technology transformation, Artificial Intelligence, and business solutions. She was recognized as a LinkedIn Top Team Leadership Voice and LinkedIn Top Project Manager Voice in 2024. Mar is a speaker at AWS, Microsoft, and Google communities, a member of Women in Technology Peru, and Digital Strategy Lead at BNI Efectividad. With more than 15 years of experience in technology leadership, she has led large-scale operations and high-impact transformation initiatives, managing teams of over 120 professionals within the IBM ecosystem and supporting organizations in the financial sector. Mar has completed executive studies in Business Management, Leadership, and Innovation through Tecnológico de Monterrey and MIT. Today, she helps organizations bridge technology and business through AI, automation, and digital transformation initiatives focused on measurable outcomes.

Raphael Moura

AI/ML & Modern Applications

Senior Cloud Architect & Staff Engineer with over 10 years of experience designing high-scale distributed systems. AWS Community Builder & Leader Throughout my career, I have architected solutions for global companies (US, Ireland, Brazil), moving seamlessly between massive data pipelines (Kafka/Spark) and event-driven serverless architectures. My expertise lies in bridging the gap between business goals and technical implementation, ensuring systems are not just functional but also cost-efficient, secure, and resilient.

Raviteja Sankuratri

Cloud Architecture & DevOps

Cloud engineer turned Generative AI Architect — I build production-grade GenAI systems on AWS that are secure, cost-efficient, and actually work at scale. With a foundation in DevOps and AWS Solutions Architect (Associate) certification, I've spent years managing the infrastructure that makes applications run. I am working for JohnDeere and I also going to present a session for AWS CommunityDay Tulsa

Rocio Baigorria

Cloud Architecture & DevOps

Rocio Baigorria is a data engineer with a background in software engineering, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures. She has worked on modernizing applications, designing serverless solutions, and building data platforms that balance scalability, resilience, and operational simplicity. An active member of the AWS community, Rocio regularly shares practical lessons learned from real-world projects through technical talks, community events, and content focused on cloud architecture, serverless patterns, and data engineering. Her work is driven by a passion for making complex systems easier to understand and operate. She is currently focused on helping teams design resilient event-driven systems and modern data platforms using AWS services and cloud-native architectural patterns.

Vipindas Aravindakshan

Cloud Architecture & DevOps

Senior Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer with 15+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale cloud transformation, platform engineering, and modernization initiatives across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Specialized in designing secure, scalable, and cost-optimized cloud architectures for mission-critical applications aligned with business objectives. Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD automation, and DevOps practices to enable reliable and efficient software delivery across diverse cloud platforms. Experienced in migrating and modernizing legacy systems and building enterprise-grade platforms using cloud-native services across AWS, Azure, and equivalent ecosystems. Skilled in implementing integration, identity, security, and observability frameworks, including API management, IAM/SSO, container platforms, and event-driven architectures. Experienced in FinOps and cloud cost optimization, along with SRE and monitoring practices to ensure high availability and performance. Recently expanded into AI-driven cloud infrastructure, leveraging platforms such as AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, and AgentCore, alongside equivalent AI/ML services in other cloud providers, to support scalable intelligent applications and automation workloads.