About me

Hi! My name is Nicolas Moutschen.

I’m a Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL. I am from Luxembourg, but I currently live in Amsterdam.

My daily job

As a Software Engineer, I am part of the team building Cloud routing for supergraphs, a managed solution for running federated GraphQL endpoints.

Befoe this, I was a Principal Specialist SA for Serverless at AWS, spending a big portion of my time discussing and helping AWS customers across EMEA on how to leverage serverless technologies.

90% of my work is not public, but you can find some things I’ve done here.

Open source projects

• Serverless E-Commerce Platform: sample implementation to showcase event-driven workflow between 10 microservices.
• Serverless Rules: compilation of rules to validate infrastructure-as-code templates against recommended practices for serverless applications.
• Serverless Rust Demo: sample serverless application built in Rust and using hexagonal architecture.
• AWS Lambda Rust Runtime: Runtime library to run Rust functions on AWS Lambda.
• AWS SAM Rust Templates: cookiecutter templates to get started with a serverless project in Rust using AWS SAM.
• Mock HTTP Connector: allow mocking HTTP requests without running a server.

Public talks

• Building serverless micro-services at scale: in this talk, I explore some of the design decisions behind the e-commerce platform mentioned above.
• AWS Nordics Office Hours on Serverless Ops, discussing about observability, relability, and a few other operational topics.
• FooBar Serverless on testing serverless applications, on effective testing strategies for serverless applications.
• ServerlessDays Stockholm talk on AWS Lambda Powertools, a library that adds utilities for developing of Lambda functions.
• Talk Dev To Me: Rust on Serverless, code walkthrough on how to build a serverless application using Rust.