Matteo Figus
Senior Manager, AI Engineering at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatteo Figus is a senior engineering leader with 12 years of experience building developer-focused cloud and AI platforms, currently leading AI Engineering across EMEA at AWS. He combines hands-on production experience running agentic AI systems with a long track record of shipping widely used open-source developer tools like Powertools for AWS and the OpenComponents client. Matteo partners with engineering teams and CXOs to embed AI across the software development lifecycle, while also teaching and codifying patterns through reference architectures and public content. He has deep full-stack and infrastructure roots—from C#/.NET and Node.js to serverless and cloud automation—and contributes practical improvements to projects like taskcat and oc. Known for fostering diverse, transparent, and collaborative teams, he prioritizes developer experience as a lever for measurable productivity gains. Based in London, he brings a global perspective and a habit of turning internal lessons at Amazon into reusable, community-first solutions.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Coursework toward Computer Engineering, Coursework toward Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
English, Italian, sardinian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
jquery10
python10
rendering10
cil10
render10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
templating10
s3-bucket10
front-end-development9
nodejs9
j8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
opencomponents/oc
Jan 2015 - Dec 2021
OpenComponents, serverless in the front-end world for painless micro-frontends delivery
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 2028 commits, 900 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Matteo has been actively involved in the development and maintenance of the OpenComponents client library, making changes to the core JavaScript codebase for features and improvements. Their contributions primarily focused on modifying the client-side code, including template rendering, handling component loading and management, and overall UI improvements. The user has also been involved in ensuring a seamless user experience within the UI.
frontendmicrofrontendopencomponentsserverlessui-composition
aws-ia/taskcat
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Test all the CloudFormation things! (with TaskCat)
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Matteo contributed to the `taskcat` project by adding an exclude parameter, allowing users to specify directories or files to omit during S3 synchronization. They modified the `stacker.py` and `s3_sync.py` files, integrating the `--exclude` argument and adjusting the file exclusion logic. The user also optimized the file list retrieval process. These changes focused on improving the usability and flexibility of the tool for CloudFormation testing and deployment.
cloudformation-launchercfncloudformation-testing-frameworkawstaskcat
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