Matthew Vaughn
Principal Product Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Vaughn is a Principal Product Manager at AWS with 14 years of experience building high-performance computing and research infrastructure that is both approachable for new users and production-grade for experts. He has led product strategy and developer advocacy for AWS HPC offerings—ParallelCluster, Research and Engineering Studio, and the Parallel Computing Service—from concept through launch, and now directs product leadership for AWS Parallel Computing Service and Research and Engineering Studio. Before AWS he drove large-scale research computing programs at TACC, managing teams and projects including CyVerse and Jetstream that served tens of thousands of researchers and stewarded over $170M in initiatives. His background as a computational biologist and NSF-supported postdoc gives him deep domain empathy for life sciences workflows and data-driven research. Matthew is active in the HPC community as a HPSF board member and speaks about intersections of HPC, cloud, AI, robotics, space, and VR—bringing a rare blend of scientific rigor, product intuition, and public-facing technical influence. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex research needs into usable cloud services that accelerate scientific discovery.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Biology, Bachelor of Science, Biology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (145)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-hpc-recipes
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contains example recipes that demonstrate how to build HPC systems using AWS services and solutions.
Contributions:1 review, 30 PRs, 126 pushes in 1 year 6 months
awsbatchcloudformationfsx-lustreparallelcluster
hpc-dr/day1hpc.github.io
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Static web site for the AWS HPC Developer Relations team
Contributions:391 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 6 months
relationsweb-sitedeveloper-relationsawshpc
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