Jeff Barr is focused on furthering awareness among software developers of the opportunity to innovate and build businesses using Amazon Web Services. He runs the Amazon Web Services Blog, is a regular speaker on the international conference circuit and has keynoted events such as XTech and the Web 2.0 Conference. Jeff has a longstanding interest in Web services and programmatic information interchange. He has held development and management positions at KnowNow, eByz, Akopia, and Microsoft, and was a co-founder of Visix Software. Jeff joined Amazon in August 2002 as a Senior Software Developer on the Associates team.