Douglas Lee

Douglas is a technology leader with 22 years of international experience in professional services, cloud computing, governance, information security and technology management. He has worked in regional and global roles and has lived in Singapore, Japan, Australia and America. He leads a team of Solution Architects at AWS, in the Asia Pacific Region, providing AWS technical evangelism, architectural guidance, knowledge transfer, and cloud implementation guidance to government and education customers. Douglas is an expert in distributed systems, networking, cyber security, and identity and access management. He also serves as a key interface between the WWPS team and the engineering, security, and compliance teams at AWS, ensuring that public sector customer requirements are front-and-center in service team plans and roadmaps. Prior to joining AWS, he spent 11 years at Microsoft in roles including APAC head of the Security Center of Excellence (SCOE), Global Director of the Security Technical Community (Worldwide Services), Global Technical Quality Assurance Architect in the CTO Office, and most recently, Lead Architect in Network & Infrastructure, in the Office 365 product team based in Redmond, Washington. He is an active community champion and volunteer. While at Microsoft, he was the Chairman of the Asian Employee Resource (ERG) that represented over 11,000 employees, Chairman of the Singapore Employee Network (EN), and on the advisory committee of the cross company Security Experts group for senior technologist. He was a past-president of the ISACA Singapore chapter, and served as an advisor on the ISACA international conference and education board. His certifications include CISA, CISM, CGEIT (ISACA). He is also a Certified Insurance Professional (CIP) and Senior Associate with the ANZIIF. Prior to joining Amazon, Douglas had various senior roles in the industry for companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers (Senior Manager), United Overseas Banking Group (Global Head of Technology Audit), Systems Access acquired by Sungard Financials (Chief Security Architect) and UBS AG (APAC Director of Security).