Josef Aidt
Senior Product Manager - Technical, AWS Amplify at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJosef Aidt is a Senior Product Manager - Technical at AWS Amplify with a decade of experience building developer tools, documentation systems, and AI-assisted workflows. He combines strong front-end chops (Svelte, React) with backend tooling experience on the Amplify CLI, improving stability, templates, and error handling while also driving better developer experiences. Josef has a track record of leading cross-team initiatives at AWS to standardize open-source practices and measure repository health, and he mentors engineers and interns on Node.js and Svelte projects. Beyond product work he contributes to prominent open-source projects—helping keep AWS Amplify docs accurate and improving Carbon Design System Svelte components—demonstrating a bias for practical improvements that make developer lives easier.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems & Decision Sciences Information Technology, Information Systems & Decision Sciences Information Technology at Louisiana State University
English
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
ui-components10
typescript10
carbon-design-system10
go10
component-library10
aws10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
aws-amplify10
svelte10
typescripts10
documentation10
cli10
storybook9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/docs
May 2021 - Jan 2023
AWS Amplify Framework Documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1689 reviews, 93 commits, 413 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Josef primarily contributed to the repository by addressing documentation issues. They corrected Discord invite links, updated the footer copyright year, and modified the sitemap and robots.txt files. The user also removed an obsolete node version update page and made improvements to the CLI command reference, indicating a focus on documentation and information accuracy within the Amplify framework.
amplify-frameworkaws-lambdaserverlessaws-amplifygraphql
aws-amplify/amplify-cli
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
The AWS Amplify CLI is a toolchain for simplifying serverless web and mobile development.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 39 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Josef primarily focused on improving the AWS Amplify CLI, contributing to the back-end infrastructure and tooling. Their work involved adding support for Go 1.16, fixing issues related to missing S3 objects and Opensearch warnings, and updating function templates. They also addressed error handling for trigger updates and made improvements to CLI help documentation. These changes suggest a focus on stability, performance, and usability improvements for the Amplify CLI.
amplify-cliaws-lambdaserverlessnotificationsstorage
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