Eliza Kuzmenko is a Sr Product Manager at AWS Identity working in Amazon Cognito. She leads work for Cognito in Hosted UI usability experience and core infrastructure as well as improving the developer experience. Before joining Eliza spent a few years at Microsoft working on RBAC custom roles, access management, core directory services and helping protect millions of users with building algorithms for real time and offline threat detection such as dictionary attacks and credential theft. Additionally in 2020, Eliza co-founded the Microsoft University Shadowship pilot program to create a pipeline for educational resources and mentorship matching to underrepresented college students in STEM fields interested in software careers. She’s passionate about diversity and empowering individuals from all backgrounds to build technologies that make an impact.