The Amazon Web Services (AWS) mafia

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

• 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

• Nick Deveau

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

• 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

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

  GM Enterprise Sales, UKI at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Jun 2015 to Jan 2019→RVP Strategic Accounts, EMEA at Datadog

• Jacob N.

  Sr. AI Startup Partner Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Nov 2025 to Mar 2026→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

  Enterprise Account Manager - AWS Peru at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Jan 2018 to Aug 2019→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

  Head of U.S. Education Partner Sales at Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Dec 2016 to Jun 2020→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