As part of the team at Amazon Web Services, I help customers build sophisticated applications with innovative database, compute and storage products. I work with teams of all sizes to help bring their ideas to life through technology. I'm a frequent speaker at international conferences, symposiums and meetings, a published author and blogger. Special interests and skills include: cloud computing, ultra-scale applications, relational databases, big data, NoSQL and NewSQL stores, analytics, high performance computing, enterprise architecture, web architectures, service oriented systems, scalable storage, database design, software development, system administration, distributed computing, life sciences, genomics, bioinformatics.

GM, Product Strategy @ I help introduce new features and services to customers on the AWS Cloud; recently including AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Machine Learning. From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Greater Seattle AreaGeneral Manager, Data Science @ Delivering innovative database, storage and compute products to help customers build 21st Century architectures. From October 2012 to Present (3 years 3 months) Program Manager, Data-intensive Computing @ Developing customer-focused high performance computing and data-intensive programs for cloud computing. HPC, Big Data and Genomics a speciality. From April 2012 to October 2012 (7 months) Technology Evangelist @ Discussing the technical and business aspects of cloud computing with teams of all sizes throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. From January 2010 to April 2012 (2 years 4 months) Head of Production Software @ Directed, managed and grew a team of talented software developers and database administrators working on next-generation DNA sequencing pipelines. Product manager for laboratory information management systems, sample logistics, robotics, automation, QC, project reporting and billing. Part of the leadership team responsible for deploying Sanger's next generation sequencing platform. From June 2007 to March 2009 (1 year 10 months) Senior Developer @ Part of the Ensembl team, working on the Ensembl Genome Browser. From June 2006 to June 2007 (1 year 1 month) Post doctoral fellow @ Worked on a wide range of projects, including web-scale search, semantic tools for scientists and bioinformatics. From June 2005 to July 2006 (1 year 2 months) System Administrator @ Administered large scale, high performance computational resources and grid systems. From July 2004 to July 2005 (1 year 1 month)

BMedSci, Medicine @ University of Nottingham From 1997 to 2001 PhD, Bioinformatics @ University of Nottingham From 2001 to 2004 Post-doc, Web scale search, semantic web, bioinformatics @ Weill Medical College of Cornell University Matt Wood is skilled in: cloud computing, bioinformatics, development, High Performance Computing, Software Development, Database Design, System Administration, Enterprise Architecture, Genomics, Data Analysis, Data Mining, Data Management, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Computing