Usman has been with AWS for the last 9 years, starting off as the engineering leader for Auto Scaling and then ultimately becoming the General Manager (GM) of the service before transitioning into his current role as the GM of Events & Workflows organization. Prior to his role at amazon, Usman was a Sr. Software Engineer at Microsoft and a co-founder of a gaming start up building games for the Xbox. Usman has a strong passion for building psychologically safe, high-performing teams and combining that with making developers all over the world more efficient at solving problems.