Kevin Hakanson
Sr. Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Savage, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Hakanson is a senior solutions architect with 15+ years designing secure, cost-conscious cloud-native web applications and driving product adoption across GovTech and EdTech. Currently at AWS WWPS, he partners with ISVs to ideate, prototype, and launch AWS-native products while staying hands-on in code—an approach he’s maintained since early work modernizing Thomson Reuters’ SaaS migrations and CI/CD pipelines. He blends executive-level strategy with developer-level execution, from CTO briefings to pair programming and rapid prototyping. A multi-cloud certified, DevSecOps-minded practitioner and speaker, Kevin has a long record of translating customer feedback into product strategy and technical requirements. Outside of enterprise roles he runs a micro-venture (KJH Software) and contributes practical prototypes such as Alexa skill tooling, showing a persistent builder’s curiosity alongside formal architecture practice.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Software Engineering, MS, Software Engineering at University of Saint ThomasBA, Computer Science, Mathematics, BA, Computer Science, Mathematics at Concordia College
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Github Skills (200)
amazon-cognito10
command-line-interface10
ci-cd-pipeline10
serverless10
mws10
html10
exceptions10
draw10
angularjs10
nodejs10
amazon10
terraform10
sequence-diagram10
amplify10
verify10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hakanson/tccc11
Feb 2012 - Aug 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 10 years 8 months
cedar-policy/highlightjs-cedar
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
highlight.js support for Cedar policy language
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 17 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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