Links

• Personal Website
• AWS Community Builders (Profile)
• LinkedIn
• 61418 (Website)
• 61418 (GitHub)

About

• NYC
• AWS Community Builder
• Senior Data Engineer with 8 YOE
• Founder + Open-Source Maintainer at 61418
• Authored boto3-refresh-session and boto3-client-cache
• Living with retinitis pigmentosa

Currently Building

• elhaz
• Expanding 61418 membership and project catalog

Recent Updates

• April 27th, 2026 - elhaz featured in EngSecLab's blog, demonstrating how elhaz can be used as a credential proxy for securely sandboxing AI agents.
• April 8th, 2026 - Uniformly enforced CodeQL, Dependabot, and GitHub Deployments across all repositories in 61418
• March 28th, 2026 - boto3-refresh-session exceeds 200K downloads on PyPI
• March 22nd, 2026 - elhaz officially released by 61418
• March 15th, 2026 - 61418's application for a PyPI organization was approved
• March 6th, 2026 - boto3-refresh-session transferred from my personal GitHub account to 61418
• March 3rd, 2026 - Nominated to join the AWS Community Builders program under "Dev Tools"
• February 24th, 2026 - 61418 released
• February 12th, 2026 - boto3-client-cache released
• September 2025 - boto3-refresh-session influenced the creation of the aws configure mfa-login command and introduction of the aws_session_token parameter for the aws configure command in AWS CLI (v2.30.3).