Jonathan Allen

Jonathan joined AWS in 2017, and is an Executive in Residence. He works with enterprise executives around the globe to share lessons learned, experiences and strategies for how the cloud can help them increase speed and agility while devoting more of their resources to their customers.

He has worked with over a thousand customers since he joined, including working with many of the world’s leading brands. He specializes in complex cloud migrations, keynoting on this topic 7 times in as many years at the AWS annual re:Invent conference. He also goes deep helping regulated businesses operate using agile while staying secure on the AWS cloud. Jonathan is a frequent speaker, keynoting at over 350 events in his tenure at AWS.  He is the co-author of the AWS book Reaching Cloud Velocity which is now in its second edition, and writes frequently on the AWS Enterprise Blog.

Prior to joining AWS, Jonathan spent 17 years working as a leader in Capital One Bank, having the privilege of working globally in multiple roles, with his final role being UK Divisional CTO. He was part of the technology leadership team that selected AWS as their predominant cloud partner in 2014, and was accountable for architecting, engineering, and an agile DevOps execution of the technical build out and migrations of the bank applications. Prior to Capital One, Jonathan was a software and systems engineer working for multiple independent systems houses.

In 2012, he was awarded IT Manager of the Year by The Chartered Institute for IT. He holds a Diploma in Computer Studies from Loughborough College, a CIO MBA from Boston University, and is a certified AWS Solutions Architect. He has previously held Cisco and Microsoft advanced accreditations and can still program in Cobol(!), although Python is his language of choice today.