Hi! I'm Kevin Bader.

I'm a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. Prior to that, my roles were Cloud Transformation Architect and Senior Manager at Accenture, and lecturer at FH Technikum Wien.

I support our customers on their cloud journey, and work with them on solving their business problems, which is a lot of fun. Having a strong software engineering background, I put a strong emphasis on domain-driven design, team independence, engineering excellency, and developer happiness. In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, playing the guitar, and traveling.

I hold a master's degree in Software Engineering & Internet Computing from Vienna University of Technology. I enjoy speaking at conferences (and I'm really happy about post-covid real-life conferences).

I used to maintain the open source project Reactive Interaction Gateway, which is an scaleable reverse proxy, written in Elixir. Its main feature is forwarding backend events to frontends via Server-Sent Events or WebSockets.

I've worked a lot with

• People
• Microservice architecture
• Event-driven architecture
• Microfrontend architecture
• Layered architecture
• Digital decoupling a.k.a. decomposing the monolith
• Multi-channel architecture & the (mostly Node.js based) backend-for-frontend pattern
• API design (stateful and RESTful)
• TypeScript and Elixir

Additionally, I enjoy

• (Mob) programming in Rust
• Distributed systems design, especially trade-offs around eventual consistency and choreography in large-scale enterprise systems

Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (2023)
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (2023)
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty (2023)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2017, 2022)
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2022)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (2021)
• Accenture Senior Technology Architect (2021)
• TOGAF 9 Certified (2021)

Get in touch!

• Twitter
• GitLab
• GitHub
• Linkedin