Chris Riggin is a Sr Database Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS with over 25 years experience as a leader in IT. Prior to his current position, he spent time as a Master Principal Cloud Architect at Oracle, where he was able to gain deeper insights into customer use cases for commercial databases. Before that, Chris spent 20+ years at Verizon as a Distinguished Enterprise Architect, where he designed and developed an early hybrid cloud management system, for which he was awarded a US Patent.