Michael Rewiri-Thorsen
AWS Community Builder · AI Engineering Track · Class of 2026
Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand · Remote-first
> Summary
AWS Community Builder in the AI Engineering track (Class of 2026), based in Palmerston North. Building agentic AI systems and full-stack products on AWS. Recently shipped a production SaaS platform at ZunoSmart Labs using Next.js, TypeScript, and Supabase. Published IDE extensions on the Open VSX Registry. Co-organiser of AWS User Group Oceania. Fifteen-plus years of operations and systems work before software, which shapes how I think about what gets built and why.
> Technical Skills
Languages & Frameworks
Data & Backend
AWS & Cloud
AI & Agentic
> Experience
Agentic AI Engineer Intern
ZunoSmart Labs · Wellington, NZ (Remote)
First and only intern at an early-stage AI startup founded by a former AWS Principal SA and AWS Account Director. Took DriveEasy, a SaaS platform for driving instructor management, from pre-build to shippable in a 7 to 8 week volunteer engagement.
- ·Built features and resolved GitHub issues against a live client requirements board (Next.js, TypeScript, Zustand with 9 stores, Supabase/PostgreSQL with 10 tables, Vercel)
- ·Conducted a pre-deployment audit surfacing 13 issues across three severity levels, including a hard-delete cascade to lesson history, hardcoded pricing, and a structural disconnect in the payments table
- ·Designed and implemented a structured agentic coding pipeline (zsl-skills) in Claude Code: grill-with-docs → to-prd → to-issues → triage → tdd-parallel → code-review → commit
- ·Configured Claude Code to route through AWS Bedrock (ap-southeast-2) with 8 rules files, 9 subagents, and 5 skills, reducing token burn and enabling semantic repo search
- ·Designed a conceptual /autopilot orchestration layer to read repo state and trigger the correct workflow skill automatically
Cloud Intern
Datacom · Tech Cloud Professional Services (Remote)
- ·Contributed to internal documentation and process refinement within the cloud services team
- ·Gained hands-on experience with Terraform and cloud infrastructure tooling
Streaming Partner & Co-Organiser
AWS User Group Aotearoa / Oceania
- ·Produced AWS Community Day Oceania Virtual Edition 2026: 9-hour livestream with 15 speakers using a full OBS production stack (animated overlays, speaker cards, sponsor slideshow, VDO.Ninja integration)
- ·Co-ordinate run sheets, speaker onboarding, transitions and live troubleshooting for regular virtual events
Operations, Customer Experience & Team Leadership
IAG · AA Insurance · Palmerston North City Council · Crowd Mobile · Various
15+ years across insurance, local government, remote team management (200-person distributed team), contact centres, and event production. Built strong communication, process improvement, and cross-functional coordination skills that now underpin my approach to software delivery and stakeholder management.
> Projects & Open Source
magic-content-engine (MCE)
PythonMulti-agent content publishing pipeline that takes a Discord topic through automated agents and publishes to mikefromnz.com (AWS Amplify) and dev.to. 510/510 pytest pass rate.
kiro-recall
github.com/mikeartee/kiro-recallKiro IDE plugin that injects Obsidian vault context into Kiro sessions via a session-start hook using a four-stage Relevance Detector. Bridges personal knowledge management with AI-assisted coding.
Steering Docs Browser
open-vsx.orgPublished VS Code / Kiro IDE extension for browsing and applying steering documentation directly within the editor. Available on Open VSX Registry.
Kiro Hooks Browser
open-vsx.orgPublished IDE extension for discovering and managing Kiro hooks from within the editor. Available on Open VSX Registry.
Kiro IDE Steering Documentation
github.com/mikearteeOpen-source contributor developing steering documentation and contributor guides for the Kiro project. Created the Kiro Steering Extension to support AI-assisted documentation workflows.
> Certifications & Education
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS re:Start Programme, Te Pukenga. Cloud fundamentals, Linux, Python, networking, EC2/S3/IAM/VPC
BeSA Agentic AI on AWS, Batch 09
6-week intensive: Amazon Bedrock, agentic patterns, multi-agent orchestration, Bedrock Agents, Amazon Lex, AWS Lambda
Certificate in Project Management
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa · NZQA accredited