22-25 April 2026

Stefano Sandona

Stefano is a Senior Big Data Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS and co-author of "Unleash the Power of Apache Iceberg on AWS." With nearly a decade of experience in the data ecosystem, he specializes in high-performance and secure data architectures, Open Table Formats (OTFs), and distributed processing systems. His career began in consulting, supporting enterprise Spark and Hadoop on-premises implementations before joining AWS, first as a Cloud Support Engineer then specializing and becoming an EMR Subject Matter Expert. Now as a Big Data Specialist SA, he helps customers globally architecting efficient data solutions