Matt leads the Asia Pacific/Japan Technical Evangelist team at Amazon Web Services. He’s a 25 year veteran of the IT industry and has had both individual contributor and management roles in field operations, support, software engineering, program management, education & certification and sales. Recently returned from 5-years working for Amazon in Seattle, his most recent endeavors saw him build and lead the team overseeing the Amazon.com migration to AWS and managing a software development team building a managed big-data platform for massive scale. His current role allows him to impart his knowledge with fellow developers and executives on the benefits of moving to the cloud.