About me

I’m Leon Stigter, a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. My day-to-day is helping organizations figure out how to use data lakes, analytics, and serverless architectures to solve real problems — not just build cool tech for the sake of it.

I’ve been in tech for over 20 years, across product management, developer advocacy, and solutions architecture. Before AWS, I worked at Lightbend, VMware, and TIBCO — mostly launching developer-focused products and learning (sometimes the hard way) how teams ship better software faster.

My core belief is simple: devs wanna dev. The best thing I can do is make sure they have the right tools, patterns, and guidance to focus on building rather than fighting infrastructure.

Outside of work, I write code, speak at conferences, and blog about whatever I find interesting — usually serverless, data, or cloud-native architecture. I’m also on a never-ending quest to find the world’s best cheesecake. Recommendations are always welcome 🍰