Joel Asante

Amazon Web Services

• Authored AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional exam questions as a Subject Matter Expert, defining global AWS AI/ML competency standards.
• Established the GovTech SA framework for strategic proposals and account plans; built a custom GenAI tool automating asset creation across the organization.
• Architected enterprise cloud solutions for high-growth GovTech ISVs meeting CJIS and FedRAMP High standards at scale.
• Drove C-suite AI roadmaps from PoC to production-grade agentic workflows automating regulatory and compliance processes.

Amazon Web Services

• Named Top Gun Solutions Architect 2025 — #1 performer in a 450-person Worldwide Public Sector SLG/EDU org for revenue impact and customer success.
• Authored AWS's first Salesforce MCP server, enabling 3,000+ field sales to manage accounts via natural language and eliminating manual system switching.
• Architected 100+ cloud solutions driving $32.1M+ closed revenue (2023–2025) with 4.56/5.0 CSAT and 40% faster customer time-to-production.
• Exceeded sales quota at 109.8% (2023) and 104% (2024) across 65+ enterprise accounts.
• Delivered AI solutions on Bedrock, Data Automation, AgentCore and SageMaker — document processing, computer vision, compliance validation, RFP automation, fraud detection, and California's Race Blind charging system.
• Built custom PromptFoo evaluation frameworks benchmarking foundation models (Claude, Llama, Mistral, GPT) and operationalizing red-team testing against prompt injection and data leakage.
• Established thought leadership through technical blogs (50K views), presentations to 200+ SAs, and speaking at re:Invent, DC Summit and NYC Summit.

Amazon Web Services

• Engineered the AWS Education Landing Zone — the first standardized multi-account governance framework for global EdTech providers; automated FERPA/SOC2 compliance for millions of learners.
• Led cloud modernization for Federal Civilian agencies, migrating mission-critical legacy workloads into high-security AWS environments under strict regulatory mandates.
• Spearheaded AI/ML education initiatives through regional DeepRacer programs and hackathons, training hundreds of students on reinforcement learning.

Amazon Web Services

• Engineered a secure Amazon EKS environment for a high-priority DoD engagement, migrating from legacy configurations to an automated cloud ecosystem.
• Delivered production-ready IaC and Kubernetes dashboards aligned to IL4/5 security protocols, giving DoD stakeholders real-time cluster health visibility.

National Institute for Aviation Research — Wichita, KS

• Programmed SLAM algorithms for Autonomous Mobile Robots, enabling precision navigation for partners including Spirit AeroSystems and Deloitte.
• Designed a custom application issuing API calls to AMRs, streamlining communication between software controllers and hardware units in aerospace manufacturing.

City of Wichita Police Department — Wichita, KS

• Identified a gap in community policing where citizens lost physical resource cards; conceptualized and deployed a mobile resource platform (iOS/Swift/GCP) that achieved full department-wide adoption.
• Enabled officers to digitally transmit shelter, mental health and food resources via SMS, email or QR code — measurably improving the last mile of social service delivery.

Make48 — PBS Channel Competition

• Led a team of four in a 48-hour invention competition, designing and building a composting garden tool.
• Placed 2nd of 11 teams in the regional competition.