Marten Payne
Senior Manager, AWS Developer Transformation For ANZ And ASEAN
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMarten Payne is a seasoned technology leader with over 30 years in tech and a strong hands-on engineering background, now leading AWS Developer Transformation for ANZ and ASEAN. He previously served as Principal Prototyping Engineer and Senior Prototyping Engineer at AWS, blending rapid experimentation with production-grade solutions. His career spans senior engineering, UX design, and technical account leadership across enterprise and startup environments, including roles dating back to the 1990s in C++, Java, and Windows development. Based in Melbourne, he combines strategic team leadership with a maker’s mindset—running a long-standing freelance iOS shop alongside his AWS responsibilities. Marten is skilled at turning prototypes into scalable services and mentoring teams to adopt cloud-native practices across diverse markets. His profile reflects uncommon breadth: deep prototyping expertise paired with decades of product-focused UI and systems development.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Killarney Heights High SchoolBachelor of Science, Applied, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Applied, Computer Science at University of Technology, SydneyGraduate Dimploma, Computer Science, Graduate Dimploma, Computer Science at Monash University
Github Skills (39)
aws-cdk10
bootstrap10
appsync-resolvers10
aws10
multiple-languages10
smithy10
aws-sdk9
video-chat9
graphql-mutation9
sdk9
persistent9
react-chat9
monorepo9
mutation8
prototyping8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/amazon-chime-sdk-aws-appsync-sample
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
This sample demonstrates the use of the Chime SDK React components together with an AppSync local resolver implemented with the "None" data source to provide GraphQL mutation driven subscription notifications without being backed by a persistent data store. It is a simple video chat React UI built and deployed using the AWS CDK.
Contributions:3 releases, 5 reviews, 107 commits in 2 years
persistent-datanotificationssubscriptionbackedpersistent
aws-samples/aws-genai-conversational-rag-reference
Nov 2023 - Jun 2024
AWS Generative AI Conversational RAG Reference (Galileo)
Contributions:20 reviews, 12 PRs, 15 pushes in 7 months
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