Jonathan Leblang, 89年

I have been able to build on my engineering and computer science backgrounds throughout my career. I started my career at MITRE in northern Virginia, where I attended the (still very small) northern Virginia campus in the evenings for my master's. 我在各种大型, 复杂的政府系统, but always had an interest in the nascent Arpanet (my first email was jonathan@mitre.arpa). A friend asked me to take a look at a site he was developing, and I became the first beta tester of (and found the first bug on) Amazon.com.

The dual perspective of my Virginia Tech background in electrical engineering and computer science and applications gave me the tools to look at complex problems from different perspectives and take a variety of approaches to find and solve problems. Electrical engineering is where I learned to look at things more at a low-level component level, while computer science is where I learned to look at the entirety of a system (including the humans).

For the past 23 years, I've been a Director of Product Management at Amazon. I've seen the company grow from about a 1,000 people to now over a million people, and from selling books to selling pretty much everything (including computer services). The first product I launched, Wishlist, is one of the most-used features on Amazon. Over the years I've been fortunate to have worked across the company on products as diverse as payments, 搜索, Kindle, 亚莉克莎, 和AWS. 1月, I moved to customer trust and partner support, working to build a better shopping experience by protecting customers, 品牌, 销售合作伙伴, 防止亚马逊遭受欺诈和滥用.

就我个人而言, 我住在门洛帕克, 加州, halfway between San Francisco and San Jose, 在过去的20年里. My wife, and my two high school sons love to travel and we've visited more than 30 countries so far.