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Vikash Agrawal

Vikash Agrawal

Software Development Manager, Amazon Web Services

Vancouver, Canada

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Vikash Agrawal is a Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading initiatives in the AWS CloudWatch team. Previously, he played a key role in developing Amazon Q Developer, a Generative AI-powered assistant for developers. With over a decade of experience in software engineering and leadership, Vikash has led high-impact teams at Housing.com and Dream11. A strong advocate for open-source, he has contributed to Mozilla and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) through Google Summer of Code. Passionate about AI, cloud computing, and engineering excellence, he is dedicated to building cutting-edge technology that empowers developers worldwide.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Consumer Goods & Services
  • Finance & Banking
  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Media & Information

Topics

  • Artificial Inteligence
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning
  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  • Developing Artificial Intelligence Technologies
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
  • Artificial Intelligence and machine learning
  • JavaScript
  • JavaScript & TypeScript
  • JavaScriptCore
  • Frontend
  • Frontend Engineer
  • Cybersecuirty
  • AI and Cybersecurity
  • Technology
  • Technical Leadership
  • Technology Startups
  • Technology Innovation
  • Technology Strategy
  • Technological Innovation
  • Technical Product Leadership
  • Leadership
  • Leadership development
  • Leadership Empowerment
  • Lean / Agile Leadership
  • Leadership and Presentation Skills
  • engineering leadership
  • Engineering
  • engineering management
  • Engineering Culture & Leadership

The Ultimate Agent Development Stack: Bedrock AgentCore, Strands Agent and MCP

Skip months of infrastructure work. Build production-ready AI agents in hours using Strands SDK and Model Context Protocol - your shortcut to agentic AI success.

Hands-on workshop combining Strands Agents SDK with MCP for rapid agent development. Deploy to AgentCore’s serverless runtime, implement contextual memory, and integrate external tools through MCP gateways.

Supercharging developer workflow with Amazon Q Developer

Supercharging Developer Workflow with Amazon Q Developer

Tired of repetitive coding tasks? What if AI could handle coding, testing, documentation, and deployment for you? In this session, we’ll build the classic 2048 game from scratch using Amazon Q Developer, demonstrating how AI can streamline the development workflow.

Key highlights:
✅ /dev – AI-powered code generation
✅ /test – Automated unit test creation
✅ /doc – Instant documentation generation
✅ /review – AI-assisted code review
✅ Amazon Q Developer in CLI
✅ /dev – Deployment script generation
✅ Deploy & Debug – Seamless AWS deployment & debugging in CloudWatch

By the end of this session, you’ll see firsthand how Amazon Q Developer can boost productivity, reduce boilerplate, and help you ship faster. Let’s build smarter, not harder! 🚀

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: The Complete Production Guide

Master every AgentCore service in one definitive session: Runtime, Memory, Code Interpreter, Observability, Gateway, and Identity. Your blueprint for enterprise AI.

Comprehensive deep-dive covering all AgentCore services: serverless Runtime deployment, persistent Memory systems, dynamic Code Interpreter execution, integrated Observability monitoring, Gateway tool orchestration, and Identity access controls.

Build production-ready agents using the complete AgentCore ecosystem with hands-on examples and enterprise patterns

OpenTelemetry for AI: Trace Every Token, Debug Every Decision

AI systems are black boxes until you add OpenTelemetry. Transform mysterious failures into crystal-clear insights with distributed tracing for intelligent apps.

Master OpenTelemetry implementation for AI workloads: trace instrumentation, span correlation, custom metrics, and distributed context propagation.

Build observability that scales with your AI ambitions.

Vikash Agrawal

Software Development Manager, Amazon Web Services

Vancouver, Canada

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