Meet the QCon San Francisco 2024 Committee Members
QCon San Francisco 2024 Committee Member
Khawaja Shams
Co-Founder & CEO @Momento, previously @NASA and @Amazon
Khawaja is a passionate QCon advocate. He earned the NASA Early Career Medal for his contributions to the Mars Rovers, from the cameras to the image processing pipeline. At Amazon Web Services, he ran DynamoDB and was subsequently the VP of Engineering for AWS Elemental. Now, as CEO and Co-founder of Momento, he's leading a team that's building serverless platforms to empower developers with caching and pub-sub.
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Keynote
Dare Mighty Things: What NASA's Bold Endeavors Teach Us About the Power of Calculated RISCs
Imagine building a car-sized-rover, shipping it 225 million kilometers away, and landing it on its wheels - on Mars! This is not science fiction. It is precisely what NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory did with the Curiosity Rover.