David MacDonald
Employers on the program
- 2025–2026Amazon Web Services5 talks
Appearances by year
- AWS re:Invent
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | lightning talk | 171 agents at scale: How Halter automated internal ops and engineering as Amazon Halter built and deployed 171 AI agents across its internal operations and engineering functions, saving 215 engineering hours. | |
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | I didn't know AWS WAF did this as Amazon Think AWS WAF is just for blocking SQL injection and XSS? Think again. | |
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | builders session | Scaling website delivery with Amazon CloudFront: one configuration, many sites as Amazon Most enterprises don’t run just one website, they run many: a corporate site, regional or sub-brand sites, plus internal portals for each. | |
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | builders session | Surviving the drop: Build a flash-sale control plane with CloudFront as Amazon Product drops, ticket on-sales, and viral promotions can spike traffic 50x in seconds - and origin infrastructure is the wrong place to absorb it. In this…Show lessProduct drops, ticket on-sales, and viral promotions can spike traffic 50x in seconds - and origin infrastructure is the wrong place to absorb it. In this workshop, build a complete launch-day control plane using Amazon CloudFront Functions and CloudFront KeyValueStore. | |
| Dec 1, 2025 | AWS re:Invent 2025 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Level Up Your Bot Defense for Mobile Apps with AWS WAF SDK as Amazon In this session, we’ll dive into advanced bot mitigation using the AWS WAF SDK and label evaluations. Learn how to go beyond basic rule-based blocking to…Show lessIn this session, we’ll dive into advanced bot mitigation using the AWS WAF SDK and label evaluations. Learn how to go beyond basic rule-based blocking to implement dynamic, data-driven defenses that adapt to evolving threats. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kartik Bheemisetty | 2 | 3 | 2026 |
| Harith Gaddamanugu | 2 | 2 | 2026 |
| Derek Ziehl | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Sanchith Kandaka | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Aakash Deshpande | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Aaron Chen | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Aaron Sempf | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Aarthi Raju | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Aarthi Srinivasan | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abbas Mooraj | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abdilmajide Ali | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abdu Mahmoudi | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abeetha Bala | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abhijeet Jangam | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abhishek Jawali | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.