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Lead Builder  ·  AWS  ·  Seattle, WA

Gabriel
Spence

Profile

Gabriel is an accomplished technical leader with experience in marketing technology, cloud infrastructure, video streaming, and cybersecurity. He has a track record of building operations from the ground up, leading global teams through ambiguity, and delivering launch readiness for mission-critical systems.

Beyond technical accomplishments, he believes people are the foundation of success. The most successful programs are built in environments with psychological safety, mutual trust, and candid communication, and it’s a leader’s job to practice and model these qualities. Even in an age of agentic everything, human collaboration is still what makes an organization succeed.

Curriculum Vitae

Lead Builder

AWS — Marketing Technology

Building the agentic future of work at AWS Marketing.

Principal Engineer

Blue Origin — Streaming Technology

Vertically integrated streaming technology for launch webcasts. Software-defined network architecture connecting launch sites to central production and cloud distribution; system reliability engineering; executive technology roadmap.

Senior Technical Program Manager

AWS — Marketing Technology

Global technical lead for streaming and media delivery. Built $6M in cloud infrastructure that reduced program spend 69%; scaled from North America to six continents; integrated AI captioning, subtitling, and accessibility services into live streaming on the AWS website.

Program Manager

AWS — Support Organization

Technical video content for the AWS Support organization, hosted on the AWS YouTube channel.

Escalation Engineer

AWS — Health Service

Call leader for global customer-impacting incidents — service performance monitoring, proactive customer communications, and root-cause analysis.

Tier 2 Support Engineer

Microsoft (contract) — Azure Cloud Security

Vulnerability scanning operations for Azure infrastructure (Qualys, Nessus); FedRAMP compliance; held US Government security clearance for sensitive cloud workloads.

Information Security Analyst

Multiple (contract) — TEKsystems, Bank of America, REI, Pathmaker

Identity and access management consulting across enterprise, retail, and security sectors.

Project Manager

Multiple companies — Nevada, Texas, California

Live video production, creative projects, and technical support across the western United States.

Practice

New Glenn NG-2

Video transmission, encoding, and distribution architecture for Blue Origin’s New Glenn 2 and ESCAPADE launch broadcast.

New Shepard NS-36

Video transmission, transport, encoding, and distribution for Blue Origin’s NS-36 launch broadcast.

Production Control Room PCR-01

Vertically integrated Blue Origin’s launch streaming with a new PCR/ACR and IP-based AV workflow — saving $200K+ per launch.

AWS Remote Broadcast Center

Developed AWS’s first Remote Broadcast Center — a 6,700 sq. ft. IP-based facility for global event streaming.

AWS re:Inforce 2025

Senior technical lead — linear-channel live streaming from Philadelphia to OTT and social channels.

AWS re:Invent 2024

Senior technical lead — five Keynotes, 17 Innovation Talks, live ASL, AI captions, and 15 subtitled languages.

Streaming Sign Language

Green-screen studio pods for low-latency live sign language during AWS event streaming, deployable across Amazon facilities.

Cloud Transport Networks

Cloud transport architecture for global event signal acquisition (NAMER, EMEA, APJ) over AWS MediaConnect and Direct Connect.

Elsewhere

g@spence.io  ·  linkedin  ·  crunchbase

Atelier — Gabriel Spence Set in Fraunces & Montserrat Seattle, WA · MMXXVI