Jonathan Weiss
Managing Director Amazon Development Center Germany at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Weiss is a seasoned technology leader and Amazon veteran, currently Managing Director of the Amazon Development Center Germany in Berlin, overseeing more than 1,700 R&D colleagues and driving site growth and a best-in-class working environment. He coordinates multi-location product and engineering initiatives across Amsterdam, Berlin, Iasi, and Seattle, and leads internal and external developer tools efforts including AWS CloudShell, Cloud9, and the AWS Toolkit for IDEs. As a founder and CEO, he built Peritor and Scalarium, which Amazon acquired in 2012 and later integrated into AWS OpsWorks, illustrating a rare blend of startup entrepreneurship and enterprise-scale product leadership. In AWS, he has steered critical tooling programs and managed teams across OpsWorks offerings, Resource Groups, and parts of Systems Manager. He also maintains hands-on depth in deployment tooling, contributing to projects like peritor/webistrano, and holds a Diploma in Business and Software Engineering from TU Berlin with business studies from Edinburgh Napier and UCLA, combining technical prowess with strategic management.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration, Business Administration at UCLA Anderson School of ManagementDiploma, Business and Software Engineering, Diploma, Business and Software Engineering at Technische Universität BerlinCertificate of Study, Business Administration, Certificate of Study, Business Administration at Edinburgh Napier University
English, German, Hebrew, French
Github Skills (9)
capistrano10
configuration-management10
ruby-rails10
rails510
rails10
deployment-automation10
ruby10
web-application9
web-applications9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
peritor/webistrano
Feb 2009 - May 2011
Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the core functionality of Webistrano, a web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. Their work included implementing support for hash type variables, improving the type casting functionality, and adding the ability to look up configuration parameters within parameter definitions. Additionally, the user made enhancements to the deployment status indicators and added cancel functionality. The changes demonstrate a focus on improving deployment logic and configuration management within the application.
capistranoweb-uideployments
peritor/happening
Feb 2010 - Nov 2011
An EventMachine based S3 client
Contributions:49 commits in 1 year 9 months
eventmachines3-clientaws
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