Thomas works for Amazon Web Services in Berlin. He joined Amazon after selling the startup he co-founded to Amazon in 2012. This startup became one of the Amazon Web Services and is now called AWS OpsWorks. Thomas joined as the Technical Program Manager for AWS OpsWorks.
Thomas’ current job is to drive innovation and automation in the world of frontend development. He has a small, super smart team in Seattle and Berlin to help him. Besides that, he is an advocate at Amazon to raise the bar on their customer experience.
Creating a user-focused engineering team
Watch the webinar to learn how to include your engineering teams in conversations around product design and strategy.
Working backwards from the customer
Amazon is built on top of fine grained services that have a strong ownership model – you build it, you run it. These services are created by small teams to make it very easy to innovate.