Steve Roberts, currently enjoying a career break/practicing early retirement (!), was a Senior Developer Advocate, and former Senior Developer, for .NET and PowerShell tools and technologies on Amazon Web Services. Based in Seattle, Washington, Steve's career as a software developer spans thirty years with a focus on creating developer tools and IDE integrations to help developers be more productive in their chosen languages and platforms.

Prior to becoming a Developer Advocate, Steve spent almost eight years as a Senior Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services, working on the AWS SDKs and tools for .NET and PowerShell developers. He was the development lead for the AWS Tools for PowerShell and the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services, and also worked on the AWS Toolkits for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, together with the AWS SDK for .NET.

Steve is also co-author of the book Pro .NET on Amazon Web Services (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-8907-5)