Gustavo Alessandro Andrade Santana

Gustavo A. A. Santana is the leader of the Telecommunications and Specialist Solutions Architecture teams at Amazon Web Services in Latin America. With more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Gustavo has worked on multiple enterprise and service provider data center projects that required extensive integration among multiple technology areas such as networking, application optimization, storage, servers, end-to-end virtualization, automation, and cloud computing. A true believer of education as a technology catalyst, he has also dedicated himself to the technical development of IT professionals from multiple customers, partners, and vendors. He is the author of four books (on data center virtualization, cloud computing, software-defined networking, and cloud security) and currently holds six AWS certifications. A frequent speaker at cloud computing and data center industry events, Gustavo holds a degree in computer engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA-Brazil) and an MBA in strategic IT management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-Brazil).