Jonathan Weiss

Engineering leader at Databricks. Before that, fourteen years at Amazon in Berlin and three startups.

Get in touch About me
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Work

Products, teams and companies since 2005

  1. to now

    DatabricksSenior Director of Engineering

    Part of the engineering organization turning Databricks into an application platform. Databricks Apps lets customers build, deploy and run applications directly on their data and AI. I lead a distributed team and help grow Databricks engineering across EMEA.

  2. to

    AmazonDirector, developer tools and generative AI

    Joined when AWS acquired Peritor. Led developer tools and generative AI teams in five cities, building Amazon Q Developer (now Kiro), the AWS MCP Server, AWS CDK, CloudShell and CodeDeploy. Also led the Berlin R&D site, which grew to 2,600+ people in four offices.

  3. to

    Peritor and ScalariumFounder and CEO

    A cloud management service for AWS, used by Wooga, Bild.de and SoundCloud. Acquired by Amazon, the first acquisition in AWS history, and relaunched as AWS OpsWorks.

  4. to

    MeinProf.deCo-founder and CTO

    A professor rating platform and one of Europe’s largest Ruby on Rails projects.

Most of my work has been about one thing: making it easier for developers to build, ship and run software. Today, that means AI agents that help developers write, test and run code.

Jonathan Weiss in a dark studio, seated in a leather chair

Talks and interviews

Recent conversations about AI and software development

  1. Agentic AI and its impact on product development

    Keynote, HPI Tech Leadership Conference

  3. How AI changes software development

    Podcast, Coffee with Developers

  4. The Amazon development process

    Talk, AWS Summit Berlin (video)

Outside Databricks

Where I spend the rest of my working time

Advising

Early-stage companies in AI, cloud infrastructure and developer tools.

Angel investing

A small number of founders building in the same space.

Speaking

Conferences, panels and podcasts on agents, developer tools and engineering organizations.

Get in touch

contact@jonathan-weiss.de

Happy to hear from founders, organizers and fellow engineers. You can also send a message or find me on LinkedIn.