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Short bio

Rohini Gaonkar is a Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services focused on cloud architecture and AI. With over 16 years in tech, across roles like Solutions Architect, and Developer Advocate, she helps builders make sense of cloud and AI without the hype. She shares this through talks, videos, and articles, speaking at conferences and community meetups regularly.

Long bio

Rohini Gaonkar is a Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services focused on cloud architecture, cost optimization, and AI.

With over 16 years in the industry, 12+ of those at AWS, she has worked across Cloud Support, Solutions Architecture, and Developer Advocacy across the globe. Her experience includes helping businesses of all sizes design, migrate, and deploy critical workloads on AWS, with core expertise spanning cloud architecture design, cost optimization, scalability, and infrastructure orchestration.

Rohini brings a combination of deep hands-on cloud experience and a builder-first approach, helping developers understand not just how systems and AI tools work, but how to use them without the fluff, including where they break. She's now bridging that cloud architecture background with hands-on AI and agentic systems.

Today, she shares these insights through talks, videos, and articles, for a personal following of 30K+ builders across platforms, speaking at conferences and community meetups regularly. She's also passionate about growing developer communities, having helped build and strengthen AWS communities across multiple regions, with a focus on creating spaces where underrepresented builders, especially women in tech, feel supported and empowered to grow.