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Jorge Alvarez

Jorge Alvarez

Principal Solution Architect Specialist in Migration and Modernization

Dublin, Ireland

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I have more than 18 years in IT working in different industries.

My career started as .NET Framework developer and expert in Microsoft technologies. Working in products such as SharePoint gave me the chance to understand the infrastructure side of the code and On-premise best practices.

In 2010, I experienced with Mobile and Front-End technologies which helped me to move to more Full-Stack vision of the projects.

In 2013, I started working with different cloud providers. From 2015 to 2019 working like the Head of Productivity and Digital Workplace and afterwards like Cloud Lead I used my expertise to help customers to move to the Cloud and get the maximum benefit of it.

In 2019, I joined Amazon working as a Software Development Manager and I moved to Senior Solution Architect to leverage all my expertise and experiences in the customers Migration and Modernization journey.

In 2023, I was speaker in AWS London Summit and part of the supporter team for Modernization workshops in AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas.

Continue with my progress in conferences, in 2024, I was speaking in AWS Dublin Cloud Day, part of the AWS London Summit, Conf42, AWS Innovate and speaker in re:Invent.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Cloud Modernization
  • Cloud Migration
  • aws
  • Development
  • Modern Software Development
  • Application Modernization
  • CloudFormation
  • Terraform
  • NodeJS
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS Serverless
  • GenAI
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Amazon Q

Modernize your application using Strangler Fig & Leave/Layer patterns

Do you have legacy applications in the modernization process but at the same time needs to keep adding functionality? Do you have requests and even inter-teams dependency and don't know how to tackle them? In this session we will show you how Strangler Fig & Leave/Layer patterns can be combined to get the best of both worlds. Come and see how to achieve the modernization and new features development at the same time. Also this session we will show you, using that pattern, how to move your monolith application to an Event-Drive Architecture product.

Accelerate your Modernization journey using GenAI

When it comes to Modernization everything can work on paper, but the real world is a different story. Database with store procedures, new languages to learn, or developer knowledge that left the company are some of the challenges. In this session we will navigate through the AWS GenAI/ML suite and show with demos and specific scenarios how it will help you to remove these blockers in your Modernization journey. After this session you will know how to understand spaghetti code, how to break the monolith or how to translate your database business logic to backend frameworks. All of that integrated with your most important tool as developer, your IDE. Come and join us!!!!

Modernize your app keeping SOAP integrations happy

Nowadays organizations are looking ways to evolve their applications not applying a big bang approach. That applications are having existing communications based on XML structure using SOAP APIs. When trying to Modernize that solutions is challenging to not break the contract with other parties using cutting edge technologies. In this session we will show you what are the steps and considerations that you have to do to Modernize your application and keep that legacy consumers happy.

Jorge Alvarez

Principal Solution Architect Specialist in Migration and Modernization

Dublin, Ireland

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