We feature a panel discussion from the AWS for Software Companies Executive Forum at re:Invent, featuring software leaders from Appen, Coinbase, Rapid7 and AWS sharing strategies and best practices to optimize their businesses to free up budgets and enable further software innovations.
Panelists:
- Bobby Smith, Vice President of IT and Engineering, Appen
- Sumanth Sukumar, Vice President Engineering, Coinbase
- Elaine Hardwick, Director of Engineering, Rapid7
- Sree Ratnasinghe, Director, NAMER Tech, Amazon Web Services
Topics Include:
- Potential future market and impact of driving optimization
- How optimization drove innovation
- Using optimization to free up budget & time for growth programs
- Optimization becomes part of the organizational culture
- Lessons learned through optimization
- Running internal competitions to drive innovation and modernization
- AWS’ “Experience Based Accelerator” 3 day hackathon-style optimization program
- Leveraging AWS to help optimize to invest in generative AI
- Investment returns in Bedrock and Code Whisperer
- Ensuring team alignment for optimization focus
- Making roadmap trade-offs – features v optimization
- Final thoughts, panel wrap up
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