A top Jeff Bezos lieutenant learned a popular coding language right after leaving Amazon

A top Jeff Bezos lieutenant learned a popular coding language right after leaving Amazon

Jeff Wilke, a veteran Amazon executive and top lieutenant to Jeff Bezos, stepped away from the company in March. But he is keeping busy, learning new skills — including a key one for the infrastructure of the internet economy and technology-dominated market that now values Amazon at over $1.6 trillion. As Amazon's elite executive ranks change — in addition to Wilke's departure, Bezos surprised many by announcing he would be stepping down, and Andy Jassy, the chief executive of Amazon Web Services, was named successor to Bezos — the software engineers behind the C-suite power players go on doing what they do every day, and that attracted Wilke's curiosity once he had a little more time free up for intellectual exploration.In a recent interview with dot.LA, Wilke said that since leaving the company he hasn't been spending time on the golf course. The first thing he did was study computer coding language. "I spent the first two weeks learning to code in Python, which I thought would be a really good way to stay connected to the engineers that build Amazon every day and upgrade my skills since I hadn't written code in modern languages."

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