Florian Holzhauer
General Manager, AWS IAM Identity Center at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolFlorian Holzhauer is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, security-focused cloud services at AWS, now serving as General Manager for AWS IAM Identity Center. He has led organizations of 30–100+ engineers across multiple countries to deliver high-throughput, petabyte-scale data pipelines and identity/authorization features used by millions of customers and by internal AWS infrastructure handling billions of requests per second. Florian blends deep technical ownership—spanning backend, frontend and big-data systems—with product strategy, hiring and mentorship, and a track record of launching and relaunching core AWS offerings like Resource Groups and Tag Editor. His background includes founding startups, leading engineering teams through acquisition, and hands-on development dating back to XMPP infrastructure projects, giving him rare operator-plus-builder instincts. Colocated in Seattle with a Diplom in Informatik from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, he is known for turning complex authorization problems into practical, scalable systems while maintaining a strong security-first mindset.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Vordiplom Informatik Informatik, Vordiplom Informatik Informatik at Ulm UniversityDiplom Informatik, Diplom Informatik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
German, English, French
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Github Skills (126)
serverless-applications10
aws-amplify10
lambda10
amazon10
amazon-web-services10
vagrant-plugin10
aws10
serverless-application-model9
aws-serverless9
serverless9
sam9
transform9
aws-lambda9
aws-cloudformation9
aws-sam9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
easybiblabs/devdigest
Jul 2015 - Feb 2022
A daily digest for development teams
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 branches in 6 years 8 months
digest
easybiblabs/travis-deploy
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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