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.
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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.
Come join AWS Startups Crowds for their inaugural meetup at the San Francisco AWS Startups Loft and learn how to build and scale your SaaS product with AWS. This half-day event hosted by the AWS Startups team brings speakers across current SaaS founders, partners, VC’s, and AWS product experts that have successfully scaled SaaS products.
You will have an opportunity to connect and learn from like-minded SaaS founders while enjoying complementary refreshments. You can also meet with our Solution Architects team get answers your questions about AWS services and architecture.
Randall is a technologist, speaker, investor, and hands-on keyboard coder based in Los Angeles, CA. Previously, Randall led teams at Facebook, SpaceX, AWS, MongoDB, and NASA. Randall spends most of his time listening to customers, advising customers, and mentoring junior engineers. Python and C++ are his favorite programming languages, but he begrudgingly admits that Javascript rules the world. Outside of work, Randall loves to read science fiction, advise startups, travel, and ski.
He has been working in data engineering for the past 15 years. As head of integrations and engineering director at Liveramp (NYSE: RAMP), he grew the team responsible for building and scaling the data ingestion and data distribution connectors, syncing 100s TB every day. In 2020, he co-founded Airbyte, the new open-source data integration platform, with the vision to commoditize data integration pipelines across all industries and organizations. After just 1 year, Airbyte grew a community with more than 6k members, got deployed over 16k times and raised over 180M from Accel, Altimeter, Benchmark, Coatue and YC.
Justin is a member of the growth investment team at Sapphire Ventures where he focuses on identifying prospective investment opportunities across enterprise software and assisting portfolio companies as they scale. He is involved with Sapphire's investments in Netskope, DataRobot, CaptivateIQ, UJET, Yellow.ai, & Tetrate. Prior to joining Sapphire, Justin worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company advising leading enterprise technology companies and software investor clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Aaron is the CTO of Four Square Ventures. Early in his career, he founded and served as CTO of Collective IP, a venture capital-backed natural language processing company that aggregated the global university technology transfer ecosystem into a single specialized analytics platform leveraged by Fortune 500 biopharma companies to identify early-stage business development opportunities.
Most recently he was CTO of ēdn, where he led the company through a successful joint product launch with Apple, bringing to market the first HomeKit-enabled indoor smart garden. Outside, he engages with early-stage software companies and founders through his positions as an invited mentor at Techstars, High Alpha, and Matchstick Ventures (among others). He is on the board of advisors at a number of startups and enjoy speaking to Computer Science students about software engineering, fundraising, and entrepreneurship.
Bill is a SaaS specialist who has led technology teams and designed solutions for early stage startups and international enterprises. He is a member of the AWS SaaS Factory, enabling dozens of SaaS customers on the best practices for designing, building, and operating SaaS solution through direct engagement, speaking at events, and shows like Show Me SaaS and Building SaaS on AWS. In his free time, Bill enjoys kayaking the bays of San Diego to the lakes of Northern New York.
Come join AWS Startups Crowds for their inaugural meetup at the San Francisco AWS Startups Loft and learn how to build and scale your SaaS product with AWS. This half-day event hosted by the AWS Startups team brings speakers across current SaaS founders, partners, VC’s, and AWS product experts that have successfully scaled SaaS products.
You will have an opportunity to connect and learn from like-minded SaaS founders while enjoying complementary refreshments. You can also meet with our Solution Architects team get answers your questions about AWS services and architecture.
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