Summary
Julien Ellie is a Technical Fellow based in Seattle with over three decades of engineering experience and 13 years in senior leadership roles driving large-scale cloud, analytics, and AI products. He has repeatedly architected foundational catalog, billing, and governance systems at AWS—shaping SageMaker Catalog, AWS Marketplace, and the Panorama edge ML platform—bridging product, security, and executive stakeholders. His work spans low-level distributed systems code to product strategy, including inventing multi-tenant catalogs, contract management frameworks, and a user-mode filesystem in Go. A seasoned bar-raiser and mentor with 600+ interviews, Julien is known for turning ambiguous requirements into auditable, scalable platforms that handle petabytes of data and billions of events. Notably, he blends deep hands-on engineering (first commits on Amazon Genomics CLI and core Panorama components) with cross-organizational influence to unify technical and semantic data experiences.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Lycée Saint-Joseph
Master's degree CS and Applied Maths, Master's degree CS and Applied Maths at ENSEEIHT - Master's degree in CS/Math
Lycee Saliege, Balma
English, French, German