Larry Zhang is a senior engineering leader at Amazon. He currently leads a large team building the foundation for Amazon’s future retail and e-commerce technology. Prior, he was a senior engineering leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where his team built the secure identity, access, and resource management foundation for customers to scale in the AWS Cloud. Before joining Amazon, Larry was a Director of Software Engineering and Distinguished Software Engineer at Capital One. He has over two decades of experience leading globally distributed teams spanning engineering, product management and operations, and building highly scalable and low latency distributed systems for some largest enterprises that also include Fidelity Investments, Fifth Third Bank and Freddie Mac. Larry has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and he holds a US patent related to provisioning application services in the cloud environment. Larry enjoys reading, travelling and skiing during winters. He and his wife currently reside in McLean, VA.