Ruben Merz is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Ruben belongs to the Telecom Industry Business Unit (Telco IBU) and is a member of the Telco IBU Digital Sovereignty Office. Before AWS, Ruben held positions at Swisscom and Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories. Ruben was lead architect at Swisscom, driving cloud and resilience transformation for mobile services and infrastructure. Ruben earned a PhD and MSc in Communication Systems Engineering from EPFL, Switzerland and a Master in Management, Technology, and Economics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.