Dr. Ivan Panushev

Principal Partner Solutions Architect for Engineering, Construction, and Real Estate, AWS

Dr. Ivan Panushev is the Principal Partner Solutions Architect for Engineering, Construction, and Real Estate at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He also serves on the advisory board of the Big Data Program at the Center for Innovation Education at Rutgers University.

Prior to joining AWS, he was Head of Strategic Partnerships at MakerBot, the global leader in desktop 3D printing. Dr. Panushev is the former co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Horizontal Systems, acquired by Autodesk in 2011, which laid the foundation of Autodesk BIM 360 and became the company’s fastest-growing cloud offering.

He developed sections of the National BIM Standard (NBIMS) and served as Vice President of Engineering at Building Works, Inc., where he co-authored two books on building technologies published by McGraw-Hill. Dr. Panushev holds Doctoral, Master’s, and Bachelor’s degrees in engineering and design, all from Harvard University.