Olivier Klein
Chief Technologist, Asia Pacific
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services
Chief Technologist, Asia Pacific
Olivier’s expertise in internet technologies and software engineering paved the two decades for him helping businesses make the most of most out of technologies such as cloud computing to solve business struggles and adapt to a data-driven business model. Olivier has been working for AWS across Asia-Pacific and Europe to help customers implement architectural best practices and be successful in their digital transformation journey. In addition he advises how emerging technologies in the AI/ML, robotics and IoT space can help create new products, make existing processes more efficient and leverage new engagement channels for end-consumers. Prior to his AWS time, Olivier ran the digital product strategy for an American multinational publishing and education company across Asia-Pacific and led engineering and R&D efforts to build a virtualized web service platform for a Luxembourgish Internet Service Provider pre-cloud era. Olivier has a bachelor of science degree in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences Trier, and a masters degree from the National University of Singapore majoring in Software Engineering.
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