Summary
Sam Hays is a senior solutions architect with a decade of hands-on experience architecting cloud-native platforms and guiding large organizations through AWS migrations and resilient platform builds. Currently at AWS in Minneapolis, he blends deep technical delivery—spanning DevOps, CloudFormation, automation, and security compliance—with people-focused leadership forged leading platform engineering at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Sam has a track record of creating reusable, compliance-aware engineering products and innersource communities that scale across enterprise boundaries, and he often pairs process fixes with pragmatic automation to remove operational friction. Comfortable engaging at the C-suite and at the command line, he’s known for mentoring teams, codifying gold-standard runbooks, and translating complex regulatory needs into deployable cloud patterns.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Kansas State University