Summary
Ioannis Aslanidis is a seasoned engineering leader with two decades of experience in building and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure, currently directing EC2 engineering for AWS's Nitro Hypervisor and accelerated compute instance families from Berlin. He has led cross-continental teams to deliver the Nitro System—Nitro Cards, Nitro Security Chip, Nitro Enclaves and NitroTPM—driving industry-leading isolation, hardware acceleration, and rapid instance innovation for graphics, ML, and HPC workloads. Known for recruiting and developing high-performing teams, he has personally managed large interviewing pipelines and created charters and roadmaps that align multi-org efforts across hardware, supply chain, and product. His background spans hands-on infrastructure and kernel work through to strategic exec leadership, with roots in open-source (Gentoo) and early startup infrastructure roles. He combines a security-first engineering mindset (Master’s in Information and Security Engineering) with an MBA-driven product and organizational perspective. He is actively hiring and open to collaborations that push virtualization and accelerated cloud computing forward.
20 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
IES Pons d'Icard
Official Master's Degree in Information and Security Engineering, Official Master's Degree in Information and Security Engineering at Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Master in Business Administration, Master in Business Administration at ISEAD
English, Spanish, Catalan, Greek, German, French