Marc Bowes
Sr. Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMarc Bowes is a seasoned cloud and distributed-systems engineer with 17 years of experience, currently serving as a Sr. Principal Engineer at AWS after a long tenure across Amazon's EC2 and broader AWS organizations. He combines deep hands-on expertise in building scalable, production-grade infrastructure with strategic technical leadership, guiding architecture and delivery at large scale. Based in Seattle and grounded in a BSc Hons in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, he is skilled at turning complex system requirements into reliable, operable services. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring and for pragmatically balancing innovation with operational excellence. A quiet but steady driver of platform improvements, he brings institutional memory from Amazon's cloud evolution and a sustained track record of shipping impactful features.
17 years of coding experience
BSc Hons Computer Science, BSc Hons Computer Science at University of Cape Town
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Github Skills (200)
parser10
cargo10
table-of-contents10
vim10
commonmark10
haskell10
markdown10
melpa10
circles10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
markup-language10
emacs10
pooling10
rust10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
marcbowes/emacs24-dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
emacsliterate
marcbowes/Hough-Circle-Detector
Aug 2009 - Dec 2020
C++ program to detect circles, using a hough transform
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 11 years 6 months
cppcirclestransformhoughdetect
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