Sam Patzer is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS with 11 years of experience bridging embedded hardware, mobile development, and cloud security. A South Dakota School of Mines computer engineering graduate, he cut his teeth in internships at Garmin and EchoStar where he built C libraries, unit tests for iPhone apps, and low-level firmware work. At AWS he maintains Amplify plugins and helps customers design secure, scalable solutions that connect device-level systems to cloud-native services. Based in Seattle, he pairs hands-on engineering fluency across embedded-to-cloud stacks with a practical focus on developer experience and security. Outside work he’s an avid runner and outdoorsman—an indication of his systematic, endurance-oriented approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Contributions:45 commits, 16 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 months
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Sam Patzer - Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services