James Hood
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon
Renton, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames Hood is a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS with over two decades of engineering experience and a decade focused on cloud and developer tooling. He drives Amazon’s internal AI transformation, founded a company-wide AI "power user" community of tens of thousands, and embeds AI into internal developer experiences and fluency training. As a core contributor to AWS Serverless Application Model and CloudFormation work, he has improved template translation, OpenAPI handling, and binary media support for widely used serverless tooling. His background spans enterprise storage firmware at IBM to early support roles, giving him deep systems-level and customer-facing perspective. Based in Renton, WA, he combines hands-on backend development with large-scale program building and an unusual talent for turning internal developer ecosystems into active innovation communities.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
serverless10
aws-sam10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
python10
apidoc9
openapi9
swagger9
api9
aws-sam-cli6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-sqs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws/serverless-application-model
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) transform is a AWS CloudFormation macro that transforms SAM templates into CloudFormation templates.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 14 commits, 71 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the core logic and functionality of the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) project. Their work involved modifying and enhancing the SAM translator, including adding features like binary media type support, OpenAPI version handling and model definitions. They also addressed bug fixes and performed merging operations related to release versions. The contributions indicate a focus on improving the transformation of SAM templates into CloudFormation templates.
aws-cloudformationaws-serverless-application-modelserverless-application-modelserverless-applicationsaws-serverless
jlhood/cookiecutter-python-sam
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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