James Beswick
Head Of Developer Relations
United States
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Top SchoolJames Beswick is a seasoned developer relations leader and hands-on serverless engineer with nine years of experience building programs that help customers adopt cloud-native architectures. As Head of Developer Relations at Stripe and formerly Head of Serverless Developer Advocacy at AWS, he created high-profile initiatives like Serverlesspresso, Innovator Island, and the Serverless Land website—now a go-to resource for serverless patterns. He combines product-minded leadership with deep technical contributions, having implemented Lambda-driven patterns and full-stack workshop code used widely in the aws-samples community. James runs multi-channel programs—conferences, workshops, blogs, YouTube, and developer advisory boards—to both educate users and feed product teams actionable feedback. Equally comfortable shipping Python and JavaScript Lambdas or shaping GTM motions, he has a track record of turning demos and workshops into widely reused developer resources. Based in the United States and grounded in a Business and Computer Science degree from Royal Holloway, he blends entrepreneurial insight from co-founding Indevelo with enterprise-scale advocacy.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Business and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Business and Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
javascript10
python10
lambdas10
aws10
amazon-s310
api-gateway10
aws-s310
lambda10
serverless10
s3-bucket10
amazon-sqs9
amazon-sns9
vuejs39
sam9
eventhub9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-serverless-workshop-innovator-island
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Welcome to the Innovator Island serverless workshop! This repo contains all the instructions and code you need to complete the workshop.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:130 commits, 32 PRs, 109 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the serverless workshop. Their commits reflect work on the `0-setup/bootstrap.sh` script for setting up the development environment, and several application files including a Python script for image processing and a JavaScript file for translation services. They also worked on a post-processing lambda function using Javascript and updated the copyright on several files. The user also made updates to the Hugo Site.
vuejswebapplicationworkshopapigatewayserverless
aws-samples/serverless-patterns
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Serverless patterns. Learn more at the website: https://serverlessland.com/patterns.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 605 commits, 570 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:James contributed significantly to serverless application patterns using AWS services. Their work involved implementing and modifying Lambda functions across various services like S3, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, and Step Functions. They also demonstrated expertise in API Gateway integrations and EFS usage. Their contributions showcase a focus on backend development and cloud infrastructure within the serverless paradigm.
serverless-applicationsserverlessaws-lambdapatternsaws
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