Being Upfront on CloudFront with Katrina Bakas
Katrina Bakas is a senior technical product manager at Amazon Web Services, who’s working on CloudFront. Prior to this role, she focused on observability as a senior product manager at Pivotal Software (and VMware upon acquisition) and worked as a product manager at Firepoint Solutions and a senior digital producer at Transamerica, among other positions.
Join Corey and Katrina as they talk about what exactly it is a senior technical product manager does and how that role changes from company to company and even within the same company, how CloudFront is designed to focus on the things it does really well without additional bells and whistles, how it’s easy to complain about the things we don’t have instead of the things we do have, how Katrina focuses on developing new features that will help the most users instead of optimizing for niche use cases, some of the most interesting use cases Katrina has seen in the CDN space, and more.
About Katrina
Katrina Bakas is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon, working on CloudFront within AWS. She brings a lifetime of relentless curiosity to her role and a desire to simplify complex technologies to make them accessible for more folks. Previously, she brought the same inquisitiveness and desire to simplify to observability at Pivotal and VMware (upon acquisition), having spent time at start ups and in megacorporate Financial Services before that. She strongly believes the best tech is found at the intersection of psychological safety, Design, Engineering, and Product Management.
Links:
- “What is a Cloud Platform? What is a Platform as a Service?”: https://medium.com/@kvbakas/what-is-a-cloud-platform-what-is-a-platform-as-a-service-eb2c33cfa38e
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/katrinabakas
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