Bryan Thompson
Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorBryan Thompson is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services with 19 years of experience building scalable graph and database technologies. He led engineering for Amazon Neptune as a Principal Engineer and now drives high-impact technical strategy across AWS platform offerings. Previously he founded and served as Chief Scientist of Blazegraph, bringing deep expertise in graph databases and distributed systems from startup to cloud-scale production. Based in Seattle, he combines research-grade technical depth with operational experience shipping resilient services for global customers. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex data-model and performance challenges into pragmatic, production-ready solutions. Less obvious: his career arc reflects both founding-level product invention and long-term stewardship of enterprise-grade cloud services.
19 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (48)
blazegraph10
optimistic-locking10
graph10
graph-database10
dgraph10
radix-tree10
rdf10
tinkerpop10
lock-free10
sparql10
high-performance10
bigtable9
graphdb9
seqlock9
database9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thompsonbry/unodb
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Adaptive Radix Tree in C++
Contributions:184 pushes, 19 branches in 3 months
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