Patrick Combes

GM at AWS with extensive tech experience in healthcare and life sciences

Patrick Combes is a renowned technology director with vast expertise in the healthcare and life sciences industries. He pursued a High School Diploma from Kenwood Academy and later graduated with a B.S. in Computer/Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Throughout his career, Combes has worked with companies such as Amazon Web Services, EMC, and Microsoft, among others in various senior positions.

At Amazon Web Services, he served as the WW Technical Leader and Director, Head of Technology for Healthcare and Life Sciences. He has also held Principal Solutions Architect positions at EMC and Amazon Web Services, where he specialized in Life Sciences/HPC architecture. Besides, he has worked as a senior software development engineer, applications consultant, systems engineer, and network engineer, among other roles.

Combes' professional experience and expertise focus on cloud technology, healthcare, life sciences, software engineering, systems engineering, network architecture, and strategic planning. He has also held several technical leadership positions that have sharpened his leadership, management and communication skills.

Highlights

Sep 20 · tandfonline.com

Referee quality and article citations: a case study of a finance journal

Experience

GM - Tech, AWS Solutions Library at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (June 2022 - Present)

Director, Head of Technology - Healthcare and Life Sciences at AWS (October 2020 - September 2023), WW Technical Leader - Healthcare & Life Sciences at AWS (February 2017 - September 2020), Principal Solutions Architect - Healthcare and Life Sciences at AWS (May 2016 - February 2017), Principal Solutions Architect - Life Sciences/HPC at EMC (March 2013 - May 2016), Senior Software Development Engineer/DevOps at Microsoft (June 2011 - March 2013), Applications Consultant at Microsoft (June 2009 - June 2011), Sr. Software Engineer at Rosetta Biosoftware (January 2006 - June 2009), Software Engineer III at Cray Inc. (March 2003 - December 2006), Sr. Systems Engineer at ViAir (October 2001 - March 2003), Network Engineer at Westside Inc/BEA (April 2001 - September 2001), Systems Engineer at Entricom/Digital Counterpart (September 1999 - April 2001), Systems Engineer at RealNetworks (January 1997 - September 1999), Co-op Engineer at Fermilab (May 1993 - December 1995)