Anthony Virtuoso is a Principal Engineer at Amazon with eight years spent building services at planetary scale. In that time he has helped launch several Amazon Web Services, the most recent of which was Amazon Managed Blockchain, taking new ideas from prototype to generally available offerings used by customers around the world.

His technical depth shows up in his patent portfolio and his open source work. Anthony holds multiple patents in distributed systems, software defined networks, and security, areas that sit at the foundation of modern cloud infrastructure. He is also one of the original authors of Athena Query Federation, the framework that lets Amazon Athena query data stored outside its own catalogs, and you will often find him lurking on the Athena Federation GitHub repository, answering questions and shipping bug fixes for the community.

When he is not building distributed systems, Anthony obsesses over a different set of customers: his wife and two little boys, aged 2 and 5. His kids enjoy doing science experiments with dad, whether that means 3D printing toys, building with Lego, or searching the local pond for tardigrades, a curiosity-first approach to the world that clearly runs in the family.