AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Paul Vecchio
Paul is the director of engineering at Better Angels, a Los Angeles nonprofit building open-source civic platforms that help communities respond to homelessness and disaster with compassion and precision. He leads the team behind the Better Angels Outreach App and Shelter Database. With more than 15 years of experience spanning aerospace, gaming, media, and civic innovation, Paul builds technology that bridges people, data, and public systems. He’s driven by a focus on transforming complex challenges into practical, human-centered systems, believing that technology's core purpose is to serve people and strengthen community resilience.
Better Angels supports wildfire recovery for 30,000 LA residents with AWS
For the thousands of residents displaced or impacted in Los Angeles, navigating resource applications, aid forms, and ever-changing information is a daunting task that can delay them from getting back on their feet. Read this post to learn how Better Angels launched the LA Disaster Relief Navigator—in partnership with Imagine LA—to transform disaster recovery from a reactive process into a proactive, community-informed response. Using the agility and scale of AWS, Better Angels built a resilient digital platform that generated approximately 6,000 personalized recovery plans, directly reaching nearly 30,000 people in need.