Jon Handler is Senior Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services based in Palo Alto, CA. Jon works with OpenSearch and Amazon OpenSearch Service, helping customers who have vector, search, and log analytics workloads that they want to move to the AWS Cloud. Prior to joining AWS, Jon’s spent four years coding a large-scale, eCommerce search engine. Jon holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MS and a Ph. D. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern University.

TREY GRAINGER is author of the book AI-Powered Search and is the founder of Searchkernel, a software company building the next generation of AI-powered search. He is an advisor to several startups and adjunct professor of computer science at Furman University. He previously served as CTO of Presearch, a decentralized web search engine, and as chief algorithms officer and SVP of engineering at Lucidworks, an search company whose search technology powers hundreds of the world’s leading organizations.

Trey is an instructor of Maven's AI-Powered Search course.