Joshua Burgin is a seasoned product and technology executive with a track record of building profitable businesses and high-performance teams in both startups and established companies. He specializes in growing mission-driven organizations that ship technology products that customers rely on and that deliver clear business results.
He serves as an advisor and board member to several early-stage technology companies, working with executive teams on product direction, organizational planning, go-to-market decisions, and early customer engagement.
As the Chief Product Officer at Upwind Security, he led product management, design, marketing, and analyst relations, and worked closely with sales, engineering, and operations on day-to-day decisions. His work spanned product direction, customer engagement, organizational development, and the cross-functional processes needed to grow the business.
Earlier, as the VP of Product & Strategy for VMware’s multi-billion-dollar Product & Cloud Services business, he led work in customer experience, software engineering consistency, onboarding, lifecycle management, devops, and security. He also worked closely with the CEO, COO, CTO, and senior leadership on operational and strategic issues during the Broadcom acquisition.
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), he spent nearly a decade in executive roles. Most recently he served as the General Manager for the AWS Outposts business, responsible for engineering, product management, design, marketing, and business development. Before Outposts, he worked as Chief of Staff and Technical Advisor to Charlie Bell. From 2014 to 2019, he was a Director and General Manager in Compute Services, responsible for EC2 Spot, Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, Auto Scaling, and Private Pricing. He also sponsored and led the acquisitions of ClusterK, Thinkbox, and Nimble Collective and drove the integration and launch of the resulting AWS services.
From 2000-2014, he held product and technology executive roles at several startups, including Zynga, where he led development of the in-game advertising platform and grew ad revenue from under $5M to $150M per year in under three years.
Joshua began his career in 1997 as one of Amazon’s first 100 employees, working as a software engineer when the company only sold books online and the entire staff fit on a single floor. He is a named inventor on more than 20 patents and is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences focused on innovation, DevOps, and cloud computing. He also shares longer-form writing on his Substack.
Outside of work, Joshua enjoys exploring new cuisines and traveling with his wife and two children. Their home is a busy one, helped along by a dog and a cat with strong personalities of their own.