Build a Modern Database Architecture with Confluent and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Joseph Morais started early in his career as a network/solution engineer working for FMC Corporation and then Urban Outfitters (UO). At UO, Joseph joined the e-commerce operations team, focusing on agile methodology, CI/CD, containerization, public cloud architecture, and infrastructure as code. This led to a greenfield AWS opportunity working for a startup, Amino Payments, where he worked heavily with Kafka, Apache Hadoop, NGINX, and automation. Before joining Confluent, Joseph helped AWS enterprise customers scale through their cloud journey as a senior technical account manager. At Confluent, Joseph serves as cloud partner solutions architect and Confluent Cloud evangelist.

Aditya Samant is a relational database industry veteran with over 2 decades of experience working with commercial and open-source databases. Over the years, he has held many roles, including database consultant, professional support, DBA and database architect. He currently works at Amazon Web Services as a Sr. Database Specialist Solutions Architect. In his current role, he spends his time working with customer designing scalable, secure and robust cloud native architectures. Aditya also helps service teams with design and delivery of the groundbreaking features for Amazon’s flagship relational database, Amazon Aurora.