EWP: Waitrose & AWS, and Q&A with the Partnership Engineering Forum

For our first EWP event we will have two sessions:

Session 1:
Waitrose keeping the leading edge with AWS
Bastien Leblanc (AWS Solutions Architect) and Geoff Woods (Product Engineer at [Waitrose.com](http://waitrose.com/)) will talk about how Waitrose Digital have used modern cloud-native technologies such as Lambda, EKS & DynamoDB to lead the way in online grocery shopping through the pandemic, and how that microservice-based platform continues to support innovative engineering for the new business challenges of today!

Session 2:
A Q&A with members of the Waitrose Digital Engineering Forum
Within the Partnership our two Engineering Fora (JL and Waitrose) are comprised of hands-on engineers who bring topics such as engineering approaches, tech stacks, innovative ways of working and new tools and frameworks to discuss and agree how the Partnership can benefit from them. Together they have produced guardrails such as the John Lewis Partnership Engineering Principles.

In this Q&A, get to meet members of the Waitrose forum and ask them about their work and how they guide engineering in the Partnership.

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Biographies

Bastien Leblanc is an AWS Solutions Architect, he has been working with Waitrose and John Lewis Partnership for the last 4 years, focusing on delivering exceptional end-user experience using AWS Services. With a strong background in data and analytics he helps John Lewis Partnership and other retailers transform their business with cutting-edge AWS technologies.

Geoff Woods is a Product Engineer in the Waitrose.com Search Team. He has been working for the Partnership since 2018 and specialises in Back End services and AWS infrastructure. His current focus is on improving the quality and performance of product and recipe searches for customers on Waitrose.com.

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