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 and a $2.7B valuation. Before Oscar, Mackenzie was one the original engineers at Tumblr where he helped scale the infrastructure to 20B page views a month eventually selling to Yahoo! for $1.1B. He’s worked in a diversified set of industries including global media (MTV/Viacom), global Shipping (DHL), and more. He also holds numerous advisory roles at companies providing technical and business guidance around the world.
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.
This event will cover an in depth look at the tools and resources available to .NET developers on AWS. We will discuss building in both .NET framework and .NET Core. Attendees will get an inside look at developing serverless applications, CI/CD processes, and ultimately will finish with a workshop that combines all of the skills and tools covered during the day. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask expert AWS employees any questions they have regarding building or modernizing .NET applications on AWS.
This session is targeted at developers interested in building and modernizing .NET applications on AWS.
Please ensure you complete the following prerequisites before attending this event.
1) Bring your own laptop
2) Install the following software:
Windows users:
- Visual Studio 2019 (free Community edition is fine), with F# and .NET Core workloads installed. We’ll be using .NET Core 2.1 SDK
- AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio (supports 2019 too)
- Docker for Windows
Mac users:
- .NET Core SDK 2.1
- Docker for Mac
