Sakti Mishra is an engineer, architect, author and technology leader with around 20 years of working experience in the IT product and service industry. He is currently working as a Principal Data and AI Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, where he helps customers solve complex data analytics and Artificial Intelligence related problems with cloud native architecture patterns. He is author of "AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate Study Guide" book published by O'Reilly Media, and author of "Simplify Big Data Analytics with Amazon EMR" book published by Packt Publishing. In addition, he is author of several whitepapers, blogs on data analytics, holds several certifications, and a public speaker for AWS. He is a great mentor for college graduates to build career, subject matter expert for technology professional to scale their applications, and strategic advisor for industry leaders to help scale their business or organization. He is passionate about technologies and is always curious to learn about the latest innovations happening in the technology domain. During his career he has gained expertise in multiple industry domains and technologies such as Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Relational/NoSQL/Graph Databases, Web/Mobile Application development and cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services & Google Cloud Platform.