The Amazon Web Services (AWS) mafia

Worked there 24

Went on to found or lead

• Bidhan Roy

  Head of Partner Sales at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Jul 2022 to Sep 2025→Vice President of Partners (Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China) at MongoDB

• PBrian Corey

  Account Executive at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Apr 2020 to Jul 2026→Vice President of Sales - East Coast at GoML

• Chirag Dhull

  Lead Product Marketing Manager, Developer Platform, AWS at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Dec 2016 to Jan 2018→Chief Marketing Officer at Collibra

• ERKAN ÖNAL

  Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Feb 2022 to May 2026→Vice President, Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase

• PGal Jacobi

  Partner Sales at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 2022 to 2026→Co-Founder & President at BRIA AI

• Harry Mellsop

  Software Engineering at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Jun 2021 to Oct 2021→Co-Founder at Antioch

• PJim Scharf

  General Manager, Amazon DynamoDB at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Oct 2015 to Nov 2018→Chief Technology Officer at MongoDB

• PMike Shoults

  Head of Field Clinical and Customer Support, Amazon Care at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Apr 2021 to Aug 2021→Chief Executive Officer - HBG US Distribution at Hachette Book Group

• Nick Deveau

  Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 2021 to 2021→Co-Founder & CEO at GrottoAI

• Paul Short

  Enterprise Support Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Jul 2022 to Mar 2026→Vice President, IT Operations at Ninth Wave

• Rishi Penmetcha

  Engineering at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 2021 to 2021→Co-Founder at Petra Labs

• Shachar Hirshberg

  Product Management Leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Jul 2022 to Jul 2025→Co-Founder & CEO at Artemis Security

• Sol Rashidi, MBA

  Head of Technology for North America, Startups Division at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Jul 2024 to Jun 2025→Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), AI & Data at Cyera

• PZoe Hillenmeyer

  Head of AI Business Development and Specialst Sales at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Feb 2020 to Jan 2022→Chief Operating Officer at Reco

Where else they landed

• Adithya Murali

  Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Jan 2016 to Jul 2016→Staff Research Scientist at NVIDIA

• Alex M.

  Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 2017 to 2019→VP, Engineering at Nourish

• Eoin Cosgrave

  Mid-Market Sales leader, UKI at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Jun 2012 to Jun 2015→RVP Strategic Accounts, EMEA at Datadog

• Jacob N.

  Global Lead Generative AI Center of Excellence at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Nov 2024 to Nov 2025→Global AWS Alliance Lead at Datadog

• James Lamb

  IoT Data Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Aug 2019 to Apr 2020→Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure, Build, and Packaging (RAPIDS) at NVIDIA

• Jeyur Patel

  Sr. Technical Program Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Jan 2022 to Mar 2026→Sr. Technical Program Manager at Pearl Health

• Juan Pablo Diaz

  Territory Sales Manager - AWS Peru at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Jun 2017 to Dec 2017→Regional Sales Director SOLA at Datadog

• krishan chopra

  Cloud Engineer - Virtual Networking at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Sep 2017 to Jan 2020→Site Reliability Engineering Intern at NVIDIA

• Mike Cannady

  Global Director - Partner Programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Oct 2022 to Dec 2025→Sr. Director, Global Technology Alliances at Datadog

• Mustafa Ali

  Account Manager - Global Accounts at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Mar 2020 to Mar 2021→Major Account Executive at Datadog