About ¶

I’m a Brooklyn, New York based software engineer whose professional background is in big data.

Outside of work, I’m an open source software maintainer in the AWS cloud security space, founder of an open source software organization named 61418, AWS Community Builder, creator of boto3-refresh-session, boto3-client-cache, and elhaz, and head maintainer of aws-sso-util.

To learn more about my professional experience and skills, see my LinkedIn or request a copy of my CV.

For a concrete look at my work, or to understand its impact, see my public achievements below or browse through my open source organization’s repositories.

Press ¶

2026 ¶

• Ownership of aws-sso-util transferred from Ben Kehoe to 61418
• elhaz presented at fwd:cloudsec North America 2026 conference
• elhaz featured in TL;DR Sec newsletter
• elhaz featured in AWS Security Digest
• elhaz featured in EngSecLab’s blog

2025 ¶

• boto3-refresh-session featured in TL;DR Sec newsletter
• boto3-refresh-session featured in CloudSecList newsletter
• boto3-refresh-session featured in Dev Shorts
• 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)