Warren van Heerden

Helping to build the cloud at AWS

City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

About

Working at AWS as a software engineer within EC2. Part of the Cloud Manager Core Team focusing on instance lifecycle fulfilment. BEng Computer Engineering graduate from the University of Pretoria. Always looking to expand my skills and network.

Experience

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Full-time · 6 yrs 6 mos)
    • Software Development Engineer II
      Dec 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

      Working within AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Core Platform - Cloud Manager Core team.

    • Software Development Engineer I
      Jan 2020 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs

      Working within AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Core Platform - Cloud Manager Core team.

  • Student Intern at MultiChoice
    Dec 2017 - Jan 2018 · 2 mos

    Completed vacation work in the Broadcast Technology department - Playout Engineering.

  • EBIT Faculty House (University of Pretoria)
    • Chairperson
      Sep 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr

      Chairperson of the Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology Faculty House.

    • Committee Member - Marketing and Communications Portfolio
      Sep 2015 - Aug 2016 · 1 yr

      Managed all the communications including social media and website. Marketed events and created brand awareness.

  • Academic Sub-Council Member at University of Pretoria Student Representative Council
    Sep 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr

    Serving on the Academic Sub-Council for the University of Pretoria SRC.

  • Teaching Assistant at University of Pretoria
    Aug 2016 - Nov 2016 · 4 mos

    Teaching assistant for the Operating Systems Second Year Module at the Computer Science Department.