Kathy Kam
Director Of Engineering, Q Developer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKathy Kam is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience orchestrating developer platforms and foundational systems across top cloud and consumer tech companies. Currently Director of Engineering at AWS, she leads the portfolio powering Amazon Q and developer tools such as Amplify, CDK and App Composer, blending AI infrastructure (RAG, guardrails, evaluation tooling) with developer-facing products. Her career spans strategic leadership roles at Meta (including Head of Open Source and privacy infrastructure), senior platform leadership at Google launching Jetpack and Compose, and long-tenured platform and framework work at Microsoft dating back to Outlook and Silverlight. Kathy combines product-minded engineering with ecosystem stewardship—she’s led API governance, open source strategy, and developer relations at scale—making her adept at translating platform complexity into developer productivity. Based in Bellevue, WA, she holds dual degrees from the University of Michigan and is notable for repeatedly operating at the intersection of developer experience, open source, and platform AI.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
Chinese
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
cloud-development-kit10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
development-kit10
aws-cloud10
terraform9
infrastructure-as-code9
infrastructure9
reinforcement-learning4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kathykam/aws-cdk
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:14 pushes, 15 branches in 4 months
kathykam/QBlackjack
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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