My name is Kris Howard and I’m an American-Australian living in Sydney, Australia. Most of my career was spent working in technical teams at companies like Channel 9, Canva, and AWS. My husband is the Snook, and we enjoy travelling the world and eating good food. I’m also a knitter and sewist, and I enjoy making things.
I’ve presented at more than 100 tech meetups, conferences, and events around the world. You can see some of my talks online below.
Since July 2024, I’ve been trying on early retirement. Not looking for any jobs right now!
Keynote, AWS Innovate APJ AI/ML, Feb 2024“Build Without Limits,” AWS Summit Sydney 2024“Taking Control of Your Tech Career,” Build Stuff, May 2021AWS Voice of the Community – Kris Howard – AWS Solutions Architect Manager, June 2020Meet Kris, SA Manager at AWS Australia & New Zealand, February 2020AWS Certification Quiz Show, Season 2 Episode 1, February 2020AWS Girls Tech Day – Sydney, December 2019“Knitted Disruption,” Build Stuff LT, November 2019“Serverless in Production,” AWS Community Day Melbourne, August 2019“State of the Nation: Women in IT ANZ,” AWS Summit Sydney, April 2018“The Campsite Rule – Leaving the Tech Industry Better than We Found It,” DDD Perth, September 2017“My Website is Old Enough to Vote,” The Web Meetup, June 2017“Knit One, Compute One,” Zendesk “Software Art Thou” series, March 2017“My Website is Old Enough to Vote,” WordCamp Sydney, September 2016“Granny Was a Hacker,” TEDxMelbourne, August 2016“Knitting and Programming,” SydJS, April 2016“Kris Howard speaks @ Ignite Sydney,” March 2015
