Meet Our Guest: Henrik Johnsson, Principal Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services.

Henrik has over 30 years of experience in software engineering, founded several startups in Sweden, and moved to the USA after his project Tora was acquired by Quest Software in 2004.

He has worked extensively with database tools, mobile, and backend development, and is currently a Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services focusing on scalable cloud services.

In this episode, we talked about hackathons before the name "hackathon" was invented. The so-called “Demo Scene” with “Demo Days” was huge in the Nordics and gathered thousands of developers. The events were very self-organized; people slept in their sleeping bags, brought their own lamps, and music equipment to the parties…