About

Colin Bookman is a highly experienced Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with over 8 years of relevant experience in the tech industry. He is a specialist in Kubernetes, microservices, scaled networking, observability, and data analytics (Spark, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, S3, Presto/Trino, Cassandra). At AWS, Colin partners with the company's most strategic customers to help them envision and build scalable services to drive industry-wide innovation. He has helped customers in migrating, cost-optimizing, and provisioning over 250 million/year of cloud infrastructure involving some of AWS's largest Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka (MSK), and machine learning deployments. Colin has published several articles and videos while at AWS, including publications on Kubernetes applications, services, and network traffic with Pixie, secure and flexible self-service analytics with Cloudera data warehouse and Amazon EKS, and consuming Amazon Kinesis data. He has also collaborated with several companies, including New Relic, on various projects and initiatives. Prior to joining AWS, Colin worked at Google as a Google Cloud Customer Engineer, where he advised a diverse portfolio of Fortune 100 companies on their migrations to Google Cloud. He was also the GCP technical advisor to Snap Inc from November 2017 to October 2019. Colin has a patent related to Blockchain Inventory Solution (US20190394026A1) and is the founder and collaborator on Open Sourced Dataflow Templates. Colin's education background includes a BS in Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has a diverse tech stack, including AWS, Senior Software Engineer, Web, Kubernetes, New Relic, Kafka, Spark, Blockchain, ML, Cassandra, Microservices, infra, Bitcoin, and GCP. Colin's expertise and experience make him an invaluable asset to any company looking to innovate and grow in the tech industry.