SPUG: Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com

[Gryphon Shafer]

Also, here's the slide deck:

http://jvaria.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/AWS_Startup_Deck_jvaria.pdf


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Stephen Blum <zstephenblum at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Seattle Perl User Group: Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web
> Services, Amazon.com
>
> VIDEO:
> http://www.vimeo.com/2910256
>
> In this session, Jinesh Varia, Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, will share
> with you some cool ways to develop, test and run perl applications in the
> cloud.
>
> Amazon Web Services provides Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud aws.amazon.com/ec2
> (Amazon EC2) that allows requisition of machines on-demand using simple web
> service call and paying for computation by the hour. Amazon Simple Storage
> Service aws.amazon.com/s3 (Amazon S3) which is infinite digital storage in
> the cloud. Amazon SimpleDB aws.amazon.com/sdb which is database in the cloud
> and Amazon Mechanical Turk aws.amazon.com/mturk which is the on-demand
> Workforce and how these services can help companies to scale-out and go live
> quickly without any upfront investment.
>
> Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com
>
> As a Technology Evangelist at Amazon, Jinesh Varia helps developers take
> advantage of disruptive technologies that are going to change the way we
> think about computer applications, and the way businesses compete in the new
> web world. Jinesh has spoken at more than 50 conferences/UserGroups. He is
> focused on furthering awareness of web services and often helps developers
> on 1:1 basis in implementing their own ideas using Amazon's innovative
> services.
>
> Jinesh has over 9 years 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. He plays tennis and loves to trek.
>
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