Amazon engineering leader who relocated to South Africa and built the first version of EC2 — the virtual machine service that became the foundational product of Amazon Web Services.
Implemented the EC2 concept from South Africa, solving the distributed systems and virtualization problems that made it possible to rent compute by the hour at global scale.
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