Ben Fowler
Senior Product Manager, Developer Experience at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Fowler is a Senior Product Manager focused on developer experience and community strategy at AWS, bringing nine years of experience shaping customer-facing programs and digital communities. He has a strong track record launching and scaling enterprise community platforms—from AWS Builder Center strategy to the AWS Elemental User Community—and translating customer journeys into product roadmaps and measurable outcomes. Ben blends digital marketing and community management expertise with program leadership, having driven recruitment, engagement, and cross-team initiatives that improved retention and reduced support friction. He is equally fluent with tools and processes—CRM, analytics, content strategy, and platform roadmaps—while keeping a practical bias toward customer empathy. Based in Portland, he leverages a background in digital strategy and content to make technical developer experiences more discoverable and useful. Outside work he maintains a thoughtful public voice on online community management and social media, reflected in his long-running blog and professional writing.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Arts & Letters, Summa Cum Laude, Communication, Environmentalism, Arts, BS Arts & Letters, Summa Cum Laude, Communication, Environmentalism, Arts at Portland State UniversityDigital Marketing Strategies, Digital Marketing Strategies at Portland State University, Professional Development Center
Github Skills (11)
graph10
code-behind10
terraform9
infrastructure-as-code9
aws-sdk5
python5
aws5
boto3
buildkite3
docker2
docker-container2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
secureoptions/CloudShroud
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:208 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 1 year 5 months
secureoptions/transit-gateway-migrator
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
A tool written in python which will seamlessly migrate network traffic away from transit-vpc to AWS Transit Gateway
Contributions:101 commits, 93 pushes in 4 months
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