Vinayaka Gangadhar is a Senior Cloud Support Database Engineer at Amazon Web Services, specializing in Analytics and Generative AI on AWS, with a focus on building modern data platforms and gaining deep insights through Gen AI. He has extensive experience helping customers design, optimize, and troubleshoot large-scale, analytics-driven architectures while integrating Gen AI capabilities into real-world workloads. He enables organizations to unlock value from their data by combining analytics foundations with Gen AI services and patterns. He is also passionate about teaching complex cloud and Gen AI concepts for students and professionals, empowering the next generation of cloud-native builders.