Shashank Chinchli
Senior Solutions Architect at GitLab·Ex-Solutions Architect at AWS
14+ years helping engineering teams ship secure, scalable software on the cloud. I turn hard topics, from agentic AI to cloud security posture and GitOps, into talks and hands-on workshops people can use the next morning.
Built in the field, not just on slides
Every talk draws on work with enterprise teams: architecture reviews, migrations, security programs and AI workloads.
Senior Solutions Architect · GitLab
Jan 2026 – present- Guides enterprises across India and ASEAN through DevSecOps transformation: CI/CD, security scanning, compliance and GitOps.
- Brings agentic AI into the software lifecycle with GitLab Duo Agent Platform.
- Presents APAC technical webcasts on agentic AI and GitOps.
Solutions Architect II · Amazon Web Services
May 2024 – Jan 2026- Designed cloud architectures for enterprise customers in financial services, healthcare and technology.
- Led Well-Architected reviews, migration assessments and AI/ML workload designs.
- Ran Amazon Bedrock and GenAI workshops for developer communities.
Technical Trainer · Amazon Web Services
Jul 2022 – May 2024- Champion Authorized Instructor with a 4.8/5 CSAT, teaching architecture, security, machine learning and DevOps.
- Trained hundreds of professionals; awarded the AWS Golden Jacket for holding all 13 AWS certifications.
Manager, Cloud Security Architect · KPMG India
Feb 2021 – Jul 2022- Led cloud security architecture and posture management for global enterprise clients.
- Designed zero-trust, identity and compliance-automation programs across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
BTech, Information Technology, Gujarat University · Lean Six Sigma Green Belt · Speaks English, Hindi, Kannada, Gujarati and Marathi
Talks, workshops and webcasts
AWS Summits, community days, user groups and webcasts, newest first. Each card links to the event's own page, plus a recording or post where there is one.
2026
Building the Memory Layer for AI Agents
Yugabyte workshop, Bangalore YugabyteDB User Group. Presented the Amazon Bedrock segment.
Show Me Your Architecture track
AWS Community Day Bengaluru 2026.
Duo Agent Platform in Action
GitLab APAC webcast: a live technical demo and Q&A on agentic AI across the software lifecycle.
GitLab Duo Agent Platform × Amazon Bedrock workshop
Hands-on workshop for engineering teams.
GitLab Duo Agent Platform on Amazon Bedrock
AWS Summit Mumbai, PRT102-S lightning talk.
Building Production-Ready GenAI Apps using Amazon Bedrock
AWS User Group Bhopal meetup.
From Amazon Bedrock to Agents: Building Real GenAI Systems on AWS
AWS User Group Indore relaunch day. I also co-hosted the relaunch meetup as a co-organizer.
GitOps in Action: Automating Kubernetes Workflows with GitLab
GitLab APAC tech demo: pull-based GitOps and GitOps workflows for OCI images.
How I Built an AI Agent as My AWS Architect: Cost & Best Practices
AWS Summit Bengaluru, DEV114, Developer Community Zone.
Accelerating Innovation with GitLab DAP powered by Amazon Bedrock
AWS Summit Bengaluru, PRT103-S lightning talk, plus GitLab booth demos.
2025 and earlier
Building Chatbots with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and Agents
Hands-on workshop for AWS User Group Women in Tech Nepal and Web Weekend Kathmandu.
Building a content summarizer using Amazon Bedrock
AI for Bharat, Workshop 1.
A beginners guide to Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Guardrails and Security
BeSA Cloud Academy session.
Let's Innovate with Amazon Q
AWS User Group Mumbai, in person.
Enhancing your Cloud Security Posture with GenAI
AWS Community Day Mumbai 2024, Track 2.
WordPress Security 101: Protecting Your Website Like a Pro
WordPress Thane meetup workshop.
Fortifying the Cloud: Essential Security Strategies to Protect Resources
AWS Community Day Hyderabad 2023, Track 2.
Overview of Security on the Cloud
AWS User Group Mumbai Security Series, Session 1.
Also spoke at
- 2025AWS Summit 2025, Developer Lounge · Cloud architecture and new AWS services
- 2025Amazon Bedrock AgentCore hands-on workshop · Taking local AI agents to production
- 4 Mar 2024AWS Cloud Club CHARUSAT, Infrastructure Camp
- 4 Nov 2023AWS Community Day Vadodara · Introducing Amazon Security Lake
- 2023AWS Community Day Nashik · Cloud and DevOps talk
Session formats
Every session can be tailored to your audience, from students to senior engineering leaders.
Keynote
30–45 minutes on where cloud, security and AI are heading, and what teams should do about it.
Technical talk
30–60 minutes with architecture diagrams and a live demo.
Hands-on workshop
2–4 hours. Attendees leave with something they built, such as a Bedrock agent or a GitOps pipeline.
Webinar or panel
Online sessions, fireside chats and panels across time zones in APAC.
Audiences
Developer communities and user groups · engineering and platform teams · security and compliance teams · universities and cloud clubs · technology leaders
Languages
English and Hindi on stage; Kannada, Gujarati and Marathi for Q&A and hallway conversations.
Looking for a speaker who ships, not just talks?
Keynotes, technical sessions, hands-on workshops and webinars for conferences, community days, user groups, universities and internal engineering teams, in person across India and online anywhere.
- Agentic AI and GenAI in production: Bedrock, agents, guardrails
- Cloud security posture, threat detection and zero trust
- DevSecOps, GitOps and AI across the software lifecycle
- Kubernetes and infrastructure as code, hands-on
- Cloud careers and certification paths
Articles and guides
Contributions and projects
Contributor to Strands Agents and GitLab.
Every AWS certification, and then some
Earned all 13 AWS certifications and the AWS Golden Jacket; 12 are active today, including Generative AI Developer – Professional (2026). Plus Google Cloud and Cloud Security Alliance credentials.
Verify on CredlyGenerative AI Developer Pro · DevOps Engineer Pro · Security · Advanced Networking · Machine Learning · Database
Developer · SysOps · Data Engineer · ML Engineer · AI Practitioner · Cloud Practitioner
AWS Solutions Architect Associate & Professional · Azure Solutions Architect Expert · Azure Administrator
Generative AI Leader · Cloud Digital Leader · CCSK v4 (Cloud Security Alliance)