Vincent Geddes has 12+ years experience as a software engineer, mainly focused on systems and backend engineering. For the past 5 years, Vincent was the lead senior engineer for the virtualization layer at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure/Classic. Before that, he helped build EC2 at AWS. Among other projects, he played a critical role in the development of the pioneering t1.micro instance type, which was key to enabling the AWS Free Tier as well as Elastic Beanstalk. Vincent also has a keen interest in programming language development and language runtimes. In his spare time, he has developed a performance-focused compiler and virtual machine for the Smalltalk language.