Jenna Pederson

Jenna Pederson is a Principal Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services. She works to empower developers with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to bring their idea to life through technology. Jenna is a community builder at heart and is passionate about making space for more underrepresented folks in tech and entrepreneurship to come as their full selves. She is a proud Co-founder Emeritus of Hack the Gap, led the Twin Cities Geekettes for a number of years, and served on the City of Saint Paul’s Innovation Cabinet developing a strategy for job and business growth around technology and innovation in Saint Paul. For nearly a decade, Jenna was founder and principal engineer of 612 Software Foundry, where she helped entrepreneurs make their product ideas a reality.