Ilya Pupko is a Senior Consultant for Amazon Web Services (AWS), at the Global Practice division of the Professional Services, where he leads Digital User Engagement (DUE) specialty. DUE focuses on providing high-scale personalized user engagement and communication across channels and mediums, using analytics and machine learning services.

Prior to joining Amazon, Ilya was the VP of Technology and Chief Architect at Jitterbit, the company behind many enterprise and SMB integrations. There he oversaw strategic customer relationships and provided external architectural and security guidance to modern multi-national backbone companies.
He was responsible for the future of product innovation and vision, thought leadership and evangelism, as well as enabling everyone inside and outside the company. Under his watch, Jitterbit has ventured into the API Platform market and has been recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).

Ilya has almost two decades of deep technical hands-on experience at major international corporations, he speaks multiple languages, and holds a BS/BSE degree and an MBA with a concentration in entrepreneurship, marketing, and global business.

Active member of OWASP, Alliance 4 Accessibility, and many others, he is happily married to a general, risk analyst, pianist, and a great recipe maker Katya. Hand in hand, they have completed their education, traveled the world, and are now raising their beautiful children in San Diego, California.

Specialties:
Cloud Computing and Security
Enterprise Infrastructure and Architecture
Data Analysis, Messaging, and Distributed Networking
Windows/DOS, MAC OS, Unix, Android
Visual Studio, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Photoshop, Premiere, SQL/MySQL/Oracle/PG

Expert: C#, PHP, ASP.NET/VB, NodeJS/JavaScript
Advanced: Java, C++, Perl, Lua, Python
Intermediate: Pascal, ActionScript, Assembler, Ruby