Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
Prior to joining AWS, Mackenzie was the Head of Technical Operations at Betterment, the world’s largest independent robo-advisor based in NYC which manages over $8B in assets. Mackenzie was a founding engineer and Head of Technical Operations at Oscar Health, an insurance startup also based in NYC, helping to grow the company to over 400+ employees.
Clear your calendar - It's going down! You're invited to join our hosts, Shawn and Matt as they Amplify your day by sharing all things AWS Amplify and AppSync.
Show Hosts (Check out full bios below)
Matt Auerbach, Solutions Architect, AWS Mobile
Shawn Wang, Sr. Developer Advocate, AWS Amplify
Shawn and Matt will go over pro tips on how to develop your web or mobile application with Amplify, how to leverage AppSync, live coding and feature special guests.
AWS Amplify is a set of tools and services that enables front-end web and mobile developers to build secure, scalable full stack applications, powered by AWS.
AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that makes it easy to develop GraphQL APIs by handling the heavy lifting of securely connecting to data sources like AWS DynamoDB, Lambda, and more.
Come one, come all, bring a guest, and check out the easiest and fastest way to get your app up and running.
Our show airs every other Wednesday starting January 13, 2021. The next show dates through March are listed below:
Wednesday, January 13, 2021: 10:30am-12pm PST
Wednesday, January 27, 2021: 10:30am-12pm PST
Wednesday, February 10, 2021: 10:30am-12pm PST
Wednesday, February 24, 2021: 10:30am-12pm PST
Wednesday, March10, 2021: 10:30am-12pm PST
Wednesday, March 24, 2021: 10:30am-12pm PST
Matt Auerbach is a NYC based Solution Architect on the Amplify team at AWS. He educates developers about Amplify’s features and offerings, as well as oversees Amplify’s Open Source community. Matt enjoys using technology to solve problems and make people's lives easier. By night, however... well he does pretty much the same thing, but he needs to turn a light on or something. You can find Matt in Amplify’s Discord or building tutorials on GitHub. Previously, he worked in Developer Relations at Twitch, Optimizely and Twilio.
