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.
10 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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (93)
json-data10
geojson10
core-library10
dotnet10
rfc10
aws10
prestodb9
distributed-locking9
cross-language9
azure-functions9
websocket9
cloud-development-kit9
infrastructure-as-code9
man-in-the-middle9
aws-cdk9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bamcis-io/AWS-CloudFormation-Scripts
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
bamcis-io/amazon-dynamodb-lock-client
Nov 2018 - Oct 2021
A .NET Core implementation of the Amazon DynamoDB Lock Client Library for establishing distributed locks on a DDB table.
Contributions:2 releases, 14 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 11 months
amazon-dynamodbdistributed-lockdotnet
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