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Mike Hines
Evangelist
Amazon
Biography
Mike Hines comes to Amazon after two startups and 13 years at Microsoft, where he helped launch several v1 products. As part of his work in Education software at Microsoft, Mike addressed audiences at the British Education Technology Tradeshow (BETT), Blackboard World, and International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE, formerly NECC). At Amazon, Mike helped launch the Kindle eInk app development project before joining the Amazon Appstore for Android team as an Evangelist.
In his role at Amazon, Mike has written mobile app test criteria, attended and judged at hackathons, is a prolific blogger for Amazon Appstore, and has spoken at AnDevCon, GDC, SXSW and other major national and international events. Moving forward, Mike hopes to connect with mobile app developers and help them be successful with their apps and bring their feedback back to Amazon to continuously improve their developer experience.Abstract