Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
Jinesh Varia joined Amazon Web Services as Technology Evangelist in 2006 right when AWS announced its first service. Since then he has been helping businesses take advantage of disruptive technologies like Cloud Computing that are changing the way businesses compete in the new web world. Jinesh has spoken at more than 150 conferences and User Groups around the world. His passion lies in cloud architectures, Big Data, distributed systems and web services. He is focused on furthering awareness of web services and often helps developers and architects in Start-ups, SMEs, Enterprises and Universities leverage Amazon’s innovative services.
Jinesh has over 15 years of experience in XML and Web services and has worked with standards-based working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions in UBmatrix including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software engineer, working on various financial services projects including Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh’s publications have been published in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Penn State University.