Peter Vosshall is a Vice President & Distinguished Engineer at Amazon.com, where he is responsible for providing technical leadership for a number of teams in Amazon Web Services, as well as for the company as a whole. Mr. Vosshall has over 16 years of industry experience designing, building, and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems. Since joining Amazon in 1998, he has been a key contributor to Amazon's overall software architecture, and has built a number of core enabling technologies for Amazon's distributed architecture, including Dynamo, Amazon's highly available key-value store. Prior to joining Amazon, Vosshall built scalable and distributed back-ends for collaborative software systems at Apple and Infoseek. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Dartmouth College.