David Winter, Enterprise Sales Account Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) visited Professor Hooshangi’s Foundation in Information Technology and Computation class to provide an overview of the current state of cloud computing as well as new initiatives AWS is leading in this space.
Fresh on the heels of his presentation at re:Invent 2014 – AWS’s hosted learning conference for new and existing customers and AWS partners – Mr. Winter shared his passion for “Infrastructure as Code” with IIST students. In his role at AWS Mr. Winter is responsible for helping to guide multi-billion dollar companies in their strategy to adopt AWS. This includes creating application-specific infrastructure and maximizing scalability and reliability of the AWS cloud.
During the in-class presentation, Mr. Winter also shared his career trajectory including telecommunications engineering and working for an Austin, Texas based start-up. He offered practical advice for anyone interested in launching a career in cloud-focused career.