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Brian Hammons

Brian Hammons

Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

Stockholm, Sweden

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Brian Hammons is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, focused on Kubernetes-native AI agent platforms and cloud-native modernization. He recently led the first AWS-backed contribution of the kubernetes-sigs Agent Sandbox CRD into the open source awslabs/ai-on-eks project, an end-to-end pattern combining the Agent Sandbox CRD, gVisor, and FQDN-aware egress via Cilium. A member of the team that launched Amazon EKS, Brian has spent nearly a decade bootstrapping open source projects and communities, including eksworkshop.com, Data on EKS, Twelve-Factor Modernization, and CNOE. He has helped launch some of the largest Kubernetes platform deployments in the cloud, and is a longtime advocate for widening access to cloud-native expertise, particularly through mentoring engineers from underrepresented backgrounds entering the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Amazon EKS
  • AWS Architecture
  • Open Source Software
  • Cloud Native & Kubernetes
  • Data Architecture
  • Cloud Native Development
  • AWS Data & AI

AWS EMEA Containers Developer Experience Round Table 2024

Session:
Keynote

Description:
We are excited to invite you to our AWS EMEA Containers Developer Experience Round Table, where we are bringing together a select group of customers and AWS specialists to discuss container-related technologies, challenges, and opportunities to drive broader collaboration and share best practices with a primary focus on Containers Developer Experience. We hope you can join us for this in-person and invite-only event!

Topics include:
Developer Portal / Workflows / Templates for Starting Projects
Cloud Native Operational Excellence - Best Practices
Developer Productivity / DevEx
Platform Observability

Speakers:
Brian Hammons, Jennifer Lin

October 2024 Berlin, Germany

NextGen Developer Symposium 2024

Session:
Driving Developer Productivity with Generative AI at SAP Database & Analytics

Description:
In this session, learn how SAP’s database development unit embarked on an innovative project exploring generative AI's applications in developer productivity and software development lifecycle. Key areas include fault localization, automated bug fixing, code optimization, refactoring, and commit reviews. Attendees will learn how the project aims to enhance CI/CD processes through test assessment for flaky tests, reducing false positives in security code scans, and optimizing tedious tasks that hinder core development capacity. In addition, dive deep into how the team is leveraging Amazon SageMaker, to drive innovation rapidly and advance generative AI's adoption, ultimately boosting developer productivity and streamlining the software development lifecycle.

Speakers:
Sebastian Baumgaertner, Vice President | Head of Cross Engineering HANA Database & Analytics, SAP
Brian Hammons, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

September 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

AWS re:Invent 2023

Session:
GenAI on EKS Showcase

Speakers:
Vara Bonthu, Alex Lines, and Brian Hammons, AWS

Event Link:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/get-your-questions-answered-at-reinvent-2023-in-the-aws-modern-applications-and-open-source-zone/

November 2023 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

AWS Container Day at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

Session:
Building your data pipeline in Amazon EKS using Argo Workflows and Events

Description:
Kubernetes has gained widespread adoption in the field of data processing because of its ability to package and deploy applications as containers with all required dependencies, as well as its support for running data frameworks at scale. In this session, learn how to build a data platform on Amazon EKS with Data on Amazon EKS Blueprints. The platform includes all the necessary Kubernetes add-ons like Spark Operator for managing Spark jobs, Fluent Bit for logging, and Prometheus for metrics. With the help of Argo Workflows and Argo Events, learn how to build the platform to be event-driven, which triggers workflows on demand by listening to Amazon SQS.

Speakers:
Brian Hammons, Principal Containers Specialist, AWS; Victor Gu, Containers & Serverless Solution Architect, AWS; Vara Bonthu, Sr. Solution Architect, AWS

April 2023 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

AWS re:Invent 2022

Session:
Optimize your Apache Spark jobs on Kubernetes using Amazon EMR on EKS

Speakers:
Brian Hammons, Jamal Arif

Source Blog Link:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/design-patterns-to-manage-amazon-emr-on-eks-workloads-for-apache-spark/

November 2022 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

AWS re:Invent 2020

Session:
Intersectional Approaches to Inclusive Design

Description: The role of technology in society is more than infrastructure. The products, services, and experiences we are creating today will impact how people perceive, engage, and access the world around them. Join this session to discuss why applying an equity lens is important to creating inclusive and innovative products that reflect the reality of today and the real potential of tomorrow. Join Joshua Kissi, acclaimed photographer/director and cofounder of TONL (a stock photography platform that captures the essence of multicultural people, places, and stories), AWS Senior Solution Architect Brian Hammons, and AWS Inclusion Diversity and Equity Customer Leader Humeera Khan for this session.

Speakers:
Brian Hammons, Joshua Kissi, Humeera Khan

Presentation Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP0VQ_rtjR8

November 2020 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

AWS re:Invent 2020

Session:
Changing the game - Addressing intersectionality with inclusive design

Description:
In this session, join AWS Solutions Architect Brian Hammons and Trailhead General Manager Heather Conklin to learn how they have built technical careers in gaming and how they approach inclusion in game technologies.

Speakers:
Brian Hammons, Heather Conklin

Presentation Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMA3wlc6lSc

November 2020 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018

Session:
Kubernetes the AWSome Way! hosted by AWS

Description:
Kubernetes is a popular cloud-native open-source orchestration platform for container management, scaling and automated deployment. It includes a rich set of features such as service discovery, multi-tenancy, stateful containers, resource usage monitoring, and rolling updates. This workshop will get you started with operating a Kubernetes cluster on AWS. In addition, it also explains how to deploy applications to this cluster.

Some of the questions that will be covered in this workshop are:
How do we create and manage a Kubernetes cluster?
How an application is mapped to Kubernetes abstractions?
How does service discovery work between different applications?
How to scale, generate logs and monitor an application?
How to create a CI/CD pipeline? – How do we integrate with tools such as Maven?
How applications can store configuration data and secrets?

Instructors/Speakers:
Brian Hammons

Event Link:
https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2018/co-located-events/aws-workshop/

April 2018 Copenhagen, Denmark

J-Fall 2017

Session:
Kubernetes on AWS

Description:
Kubernetes is a popular cloud-native open-source orchestration platform for container management, scaling and automated deployment. It includes a rich set of features such as service discovery, multi-tenancy, stateful containers, resource usage monitoring, and rolling updates. Some of the questions we will go over are: How do we deploy using infrastructure technologies like CloudFormation and Terraform? How can CLI clients such as kops, kubeadm, juju-charms and minikube be used to interact with Kubernetes? What does a clean CI/CD pipeline look like using AWS? How do we integrate with tools such as Maven? In this code-driven workshop you will learn how to package, deploy, scale, and monitor your Java application using Kubernetes and the AWS cloud.

Instructors/Speakers:
Arun Gupta, Brian Hammons

Workshop Link:
https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-workshop-for-kubernetes

November 2017 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Brian Hammons

Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

Stockholm, Sweden

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