Jonathan Weiss
Managing Director Amazon Development Center Germany
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Weiss is an entrepreneurial technology leader with 18 years of experience building and scaling cloud and developer tools, currently serving as Managing Director of Amazon Development Center Germany and senior director for IDE-related developer products at AWS. He founded Peritor and built Scalarium—later acquired and integrated into AWS as OpsWorks—demonstrating a strong track record of turning a startup into production-grade cloud services. At Amazon he leads thousands of R&D employees across multiple countries, balancing site leadership, product strategy, and public representation. Hands-on at his core, he has contributed to open-source deployment tooling such as Webistrano, improving deployment logic and configuration management. He combines engineering depth (business and software engineering diploma) with executive experience in operations, product, and developer experience. Based in Berlin, he focuses on growing teams and environments that let engineers deliver impactful, scalable products.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration, Business Administration at UCLA Anderson School of ManagementDiploma, Business and Software Engineering, Diploma, Business and Software Engineering at Technische Universität BerlinCertificate of Study, Business Administration, Certificate of Study, Business Administration at Edinburgh Napier University
English, German, Hebrew, French
Github Skills (7)
capistrano10
configuration-management10
ruby-rails10
rails10
deployment-automation10
ruby10
web-application9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
peritor/webistrano
Feb 2009 - May 2011
Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the core functionality of Webistrano, a web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. Their work included implementing support for hash type variables, improving the type casting functionality, and adding the ability to look up configuration parameters within parameter definitions. Additionally, the user made enhancements to the deployment status indicators and added cancel functionality. The changes demonstrate a focus on improving deployment logic and configuration management within the application.
capistranoweb-uideployments
peritor/happening
Feb 2010 - Nov 2011
An EventMachine based S3 client
Contributions:49 commits in 1 year 9 months
eventmachines3-clientaws
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