Episode 32: Amazon RDS

Drew and James open the show with a chat about some DevOps tools. As well as some shortcuts to spinning up new servers. The guest this week is Chris Richardson, a Software Development Manager at Amazon (AWS) on the RDS (Relational Database Service) team. The interview starts at 16:41.

Chris was born and raised in BC, so naturally, he has a ton of history in the province. He went to SFU, worked for a couple startups in town, spent some time at Hootsuite, and ultimately landed at Amazon Vancouver on the RDS team.

Most people have heard of AWS (Amazon Web Services) before, but you probably haven't heard about the culture and work life at the company itself. If you are interested in RDS or you want a peek behind the curtain at one of the most successful technology companies, don't miss this one!

Amazon is hiring at their Vancouver office, so be sure to check their job posts out!

Links

• CareCru Jobs

Interview Links

• Amazon Vancouver Careers


• RDS Oracle SDE2 job


• Leadership Principles


• Chris on LinkedIn or Email

Meetups for the week of June 27th

Monday 27th

• Git and 0-Tech (Decentral Vancouver 436 West Pender Street) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM


• Genr8 (412 - 289 Alexander St) 7:00 PM


• HackerNest (SKIO Music 390 Cambie Street) 8:00 PM

Tuesday 28th

• Lunch & Learn - Lindsay Mussell, East Side Games (BrainStation Vancouver 1110 Hamilton Street #410) 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM


• VanTUG (BuildDirect, 2200 401 W Georgia) 6:00 PM


• Amazon Web Services Users Group (Unbounce, 4th floor, 401 W Georgia) 6:00 PM


• TechVancouver Meetup (Rise HQ 12th Floor- 1055 West Hastings) 6:00 PM CAD12.00


• Pitch Perfect (RED Academy 200 - 1490 West Broadway) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• Clojure Hacknight (CodeCore 142 W Hastings) 6:00 PM


• VanDev (UBC Robson Square C550 800 Robson Street) 6:45 PM to 9:30 PM


• VanBUG (SFU, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Suite 1500) 7:00 PM

Wednesday 29th

• Linux Desktop (Decentral,436 W Pender St) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM


• YVR Testing (Sophos Head Office 580 granville) 5:30 PM


• Pluralsight Study Group (PNI Digital Media Offices 100 - 425 Carrall Street, 1st Floor) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Thursday 30th

• DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (Decentral Vancouver 436 West Pender Street) 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM


• Learn Data Science (CBRE 25th Floor 1021 W Hastings) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• Startup Drinks Vancouver (131 Water Kitchen & Bar 131 Water St) 6:00 PM


• Ladies that UX Vancouver (433 West Pender) 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM


• ODDBALL: Panel Discussion on The Sharing Economy (BrainStation Vancouver 1110 Hamilton Street #410) 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect