David Yanacek

David Yanacek is a distinguished technology leader and engineer, widely recognized for his foundational contributions to the serverless computing paradigm, particularly through his pivotal role in the creation and scaling of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. As a founding…

Key facts

Role: Founding Engineer and Principal Architect of AWS Lambda
Nationality: American

Notable quotes

"The core idea of Lambda is that you don't think about servers... The whole point of serverless is that you care about your application and nothing else."

"The thing that serverless does is it removes all the accidental complexity of running your application."