James Hamilton

James Hamilton is Senior Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon, where he serves on the S-team leadership group and focuses on technology across the company including semiconductors, custom servers, networking devices, machine learning systems, and cloud infrastructure. He joined Amazon in January 2009, initially at AWS, where he concentrated on infrastructure efficiency, reliability, and service scaling. He is best known for his work in designing and developing large-scale datacenter and cloud computing systems, and holds over 200 patents in server and datacenter infrastructure, database, and cloud computing technologies.