Summary
Todd Waits is an Enterprise Support Manager at Amazon with 11 years of experience building high-performing technical teams that drive enterprise customer success. He combines hands-on technical account leadership with people development, having progressed from Senior Technical Account Manager to managing enterprise support since 2021. His background spans academia and research—teaching web programming at the University of Pittsburgh and advising the CIO at Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute—so he blends practical engineering, security-conscious practices, and product-focused coaching. Todd has led cross-disciplinary teams to transition prototypes into production, introduced Agile and DevOps practices to increase organizational output, and has founded and led product efforts in game-based learning startups. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings a rare mix of operational calm (honed in live broadcast roles) and technical depth that helps teams deliver auditable, customer-facing solutions. He’s comfortable rolling up his sleeves to pair program, design architecture, or mentor engineers while keeping enterprise reliability and usability front of mind.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MET, Entertainment Technology, MET, Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
BA Media Arts, Film, BA Media Arts, Film at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish