Kalpana Mahesh is the Head of the Data & Gen AI Solutions Architects organization at AWS and focuses on accelerating customer business outcomes through the democratization of ML. Her background includes the diverse areas of machine learning, data, software development, hardware engineering, battery management, and IoT along with global customer & business management. She holds 2 patents in the energy harvesting space, has a MS EE from Missouri Science & Technology University and a MBA from SMU. Her passions outside of work are family and community! She is actively involved in the community through the Sankara Eye Foundation and Hunger Heroes, a technology solution built on AWS for solving hunger in the communities.