Michael Haken
Senior Principal, Customer Resilience Engineering at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Round Hill, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Haken is a Senior Principal in Customer Resilience Engineering at AWS with over a decade of experience designing resilient, cost-effective cloud architectures for enterprises and government. He authored numerous AWS whitepapers and workshops on fault isolation, multi-AZ resilience, operational readiness, and data perimeter design, shaping how teams detect gray failures and plan multi-Region failovers. A former Principal Technologist and Solutions Architect, he blends hands-on systems engineering with strategic guidance to improve availability and operational maturity at scale. His background includes leading cloud programs for federal and DoD customers and earlier service as a Marine communications officer, which informs his disciplined, mission-focused approach to resilience. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and a B.A. in Philosophy from UVA, a combination that surfaces in his pragmatic yet thoughtful treatment of complex system trade-offs.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy at University of Virginia
English
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Github Skills (145)
json-data10
geojson10
debugging10
aws-sdk10
aws10
core-library9
dotnet9
fiddler9
locking9
sdk9
distributed-locking9
terraform9
security9
azure-functions9
proxy9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bamcis-io/GeoJSON
Apr 2018 - Mar 2021
A .NET Core library for serializing and deserializing GeoJSON formatted JSON data. Complies with RFC 7946.
Contributions:3 releases, 25 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 11 months
rfc-7946serializingcore-libraryrfcnet-core
bamcis-io/aws-service-availability
Mar 2020 - May 2022
A serverless application that calculates total affected time of events on the AWS Service Health Dashboard.
Contributions:1 release, 56 PRs, 62 pushes in 2 years 2 months
eventstotalaffectedservice-healthhealth
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