Wendy Wise
Sr. Engineering Manager - Distributed SQL at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWendy Wise is a seasoned engineering leader with 22+ years of experience building large-scale databases, cloud services, and AI-enabled products, currently leading Distributed SQL engineering at AWS. She has a proven track record of operating mission-critical systems at extreme scale—from running Amazon’s largest key-value store to heading RDS SQL Server engineering—and excels at turning complex infrastructure challenges into reliable, customer-focused services. Wendy blends technical depth with cross-functional leadership, having built product, engineering, and science teams to deliver supply-chain optimizations and AI-driven life sciences tooling. Her background spans enterprise, media, and healthcare, and she pairs that breadth with international perspective from a Global Executive MBA and early study of Latin. Colleagues describe her as a visionary pragmatist who mentors teams to balance innovation with operational excellence.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of GeorgiaCertificate Electronics, Certificate Electronics at United States Signal Corp SchoolGlobal Executive MBA Focus on International Business, Global Executive MBA Focus on International Business at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
german - basic
Github Skills (1)
amazon-web-services9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wlwise-zz/AnyoneCanCreateAnApp
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:42 commits in 5 months
w1wise/esmfold
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 1 tag in 1 day
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