Summary
John Wu is a seasoned software leader with 11+ years at Amazon, currently founding and leading the Amazon S3 engineering team in Vancouver to scale the world’s largest cloud object storage platform. He has deep experience building and growing large, cross-functional engineering organizations—previously leading 40+ engineers and PMs across Prime, Delivery Experience, and Logistics—and a strong systems background from an MS in Computer Science from Stanford. Known for shipping high-impact services (Prime Instant Video launches, Multi-CDN integrations) and recruiting technical talent across North America, he combines hands-on technical judgment with operational rigor. Based in Vancouver, he’s actively hiring and building new teams, blending enterprise-grade storage expertise with a track record of launching customer-facing programs at global scale.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
WBHS
MS, Computer Science - Systems, MS, Computer Science - Systems at Stanford University