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💰 Cloud, Cash & Chaos: Build Club Perth's Best Night Yet. 🚀

The Attendees

65+ people packed into the Curtin Entrepreneurs Hub last night and the energy was electric ⚡. Students, AWS engineers, ops and cybersecurity pros, VCs — all under one roof.

🏆 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻'𝘀 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲

John, holder of all 12 AWS certifications and the Gold Jacket, walked us through AWS basics, security best practices, and a live demo hosting a static website with S3 and CloudFront.

💸 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆𝗻𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗢𝗽𝘀

Martyna gave a fascinating talk on Cloud FinOps — a growing discipline focused on optimising cloud spend at enterprise scale — including her unique career journey into this little-known role.

🎤 Impromtu Pitch Night

To close out the evening, the mic was open — and people showed UP:

Samreid demonstrated "how not to pitch" using a 2018 slide deck, then flipped the script with a sharp playbook on pitching better: be specific about your product and your market 🎯
Ronnie pitched himself — highly technical, drone enthusiast, building a legal project, and looking for a business co-founder. Honestly, what's not to love? 🚁
Mash took what he'd learned from John's tutorial and rebuilt it live using CLI instead of the console — ending up with a pizza-recognising app hosted on AWS. On the night. Incredible. 🍕🤖
Alfie showed off a VR project focused on electrical safety ⚡🥽
Yoesel, a CS student with serious marketing chops, wowed everyone with her portfolio, LinkedIn traction, and paying clients already in the bag 🌟

🙏 Massive Support

Massive thanks to John and Martyna for sharing deep expertise that levelled up everyone in the room — seniors and newcomers alike. Thanks also to their colleagues who came along to show their support, and to Alex Jenkins who stayed right until the end giving 1-on-1 time to get to know our community. That means a lot. 💙

And of course — Curtin Commercialisation & Entrepreneurship for hosting, WADSIH for the pizzas 🍕, Bloom for their ongoing support, and every volunteer who helped set up and pack down on the night.

📅 Next up: In May, Samreid is back — this time leading us through a builder session. Stay tuned, you won't want to miss it. 🛠️