Diego Magalhães
Chief Technologist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Magalhães is a strategic technology leader and Chief Technologist at AWS Canada with over 18 years in tech and 12 years of focused professional experience driving public sector and education-focused cloud adoption. He partners with CxOs and EdTech startups to shape research, SaaS, serverless, and governance strategies while leading global engagements across AdTech and subscription lifecycles. A hands-on principal technologist, he contributes to open-source AWS samples—most notably backend and connection-management work on a WebSocket chat SAM app—bringing practical serverless and DynamoDB expertise. Born from engineering roots (postgraduate studies in computing engineering), Diego blends deep technical craft with public-sector strategy and a knack for translating complex cloud architectures into executable programs and content for broad audiences.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Information Systems, Bachelor, Information Systems at Faculdade Lemos de CastroPost Graduation, Computing Engineering, Post Graduation, Computing Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (19)
websockets-client10
aws10
api-gateway10
websocket-client10
client-websocket10
javascript9
amazon-dynamodb8
dynamodb8
cloud-infrastructure8
websocket8
nodejs7
serverless7
xml6
seam6
dependency-injection6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/simple-websockets-chat-app
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
This SAM application provides the Lambda functions, DynamoDB table, and roles to allow you to build a simple chat application based on API Gateway's new WebSocket-based API feature.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:1 release, 38 commits, 17 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the backend logic of a WebSocket-based chat application using AWS services. Their work included implementing message handling, connection management, and ensuring proper disconnection behavior. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to use Promises and updated dependencies. They also made minor documentation updates.
api-gatewayserverlessaws-lambdaawslambda
dgomesbr/nwbig
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:44 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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