Steph Gooch
Sr. SA Advocate For The Customer Acceleration Team
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteph Gooch is a Senior Solution Architect Advocate at AWS with five years of cloud-focused experience driving customer acceleration and cost optimization. Based in London, she blends hands-on DevOps and backend engineering—contributing Python Lambda code to the popular aws-well-architected-labs repo—with strategic advocacy to help customers reduce cloud spend. Her background spans CloudOps at KPMG and leadership roles at AWS where she led cost optimisation efforts, giving her both platform-building and commercial insight. Unusually for a cloud engineer, she also ran a bespoke cake-decorating business, showing entrepreneurial grit and attention to detail that carries into reliable, customer-focused architecture.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE Mathematics English Lit English Lang Double Science ICT Food and Nutrition Half RE and Half Ci, GCSE Mathematics English Lit English Lang Double Science ICT Food and Nutrition Half RE and Half Ci at Woodcote High SchoolMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at City St George’s, University of LondonBachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics at University of SurreyA-level Mathematics Psychology Media, A-level Mathematics Psychology Media at Reigate College
Github Skills (9)
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aws-lambda10
boto10
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s3-bucket9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
devops8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-well-architected-labs
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Hands on labs and code to help you learn, measure, and build using architectural best practices.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:81 reviews, 611 commits, 215 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Steph's contributions focus on creating and managing an AWS Lambda function designed to collect, process, and upload data related to AWS Organizations. The code, written in Python, leverages the boto3 library to interact with AWS services, specifically the Organizations service to retrieve account data. Further development involved extending the function to gather and include information on account tags.
hands-onsecurityresiliencywell-architectedreliability-engineering
awssteph/aws-well-architected-labs
Dec 2020 - May 2023
Hands on labs and code to help you learn, measure, and build using architectural best practices.
Contributions:5 reviews, 18 PRs, 424 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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