Dan Mellott Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Teaching Topics in Computer Science with an emphasis on game development (using Unity), basics of C#, and using AI for the Technology and Applied Composition program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

San Francisco, California, US

• Co-founded the studio in December 2021. We're a video game studio focused on creating an inclusive culture while making colorful and funny games.
• Led a team of 10+ game developers to create three PC game demos used for pitching to publishers.
• Negotiated intellectual property rights and managed legal aspects for game development.
• Spearheaded AI research for game development, exploring how AI can enhance game development, game design, player experience, and narrative design.
• Hands-on in engineering systems, UX/UI design, game design, and audio production.

• Manager of the API Engineering Team. Responsible for building team roadmap, Product definition, API design, and delivery of customer facing APIs available via Anthropic's first-party offering and on third-party.
• Built the team’s roadmap from the ground up, aligning priorities with business goals and ensuring a clear path for future development.
• Led the team to successfully launch the Tool Use product, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure on-time delivery. Contributed to the design and development of Explicit Prompt Caching and Batch Jobs, which.
• Defined a longer-term vision for the team’s growth and evolution, setting a strategic foundation for ongoing product and team development post-departure.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led multiple teams of 20+ software engineers, managers, and a technical program manager for AWS Organizations, focusing on launching customer-facing features by expanding multi-account management capabilities across AWS.
• Responsible for creating and executing multi-year roadmap requiring complex technical work across multi-functional teams.
• Achieved an S-Team Goal, launching 10 additional customer-facing features, four months ahead of schedule.
• Consistently rated in the top category for manager satisfaction across Amazon for 23 consecutive months (entire time the rating was tracked).
• Developed a long-term growth plan for the team and product, securing approval for team expansion to 40 members.

Seattle, WA, US

• Software Development Manager for a new team in AWS Organizations. Responsible for building the multi-year vision, roadmap, and execution plan for new greenfield projects focusing heavily on making it easier for AWS.
• Pioneered a multi-year initiative to scale policy management systems. Orchestrated a complete architecture overhaul, migrating from a graph data store to a NoSQL data store, resulting in a robust foundation for.
• Spearheaded the development of a sophisticated policy language that empowered customers to have fine-grained control over policy application on their accounts.
• Successfully launched three pivotal customer-facing policies within a year, including Tag Policies, AI Data Opt-out Policies, and Backup Policies.

Seattle, WA, US

• Software engineering lead responsible for shipping the AWS Organizations service (https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/).
• Implemented best practices in software engineering, contributing to the service's robustness, scalability, and reliability. Designed and implemented key functionality for the service.
• Authored a comprehensive 50-page document outlining the new service capabilities and pitfalls, and drove approval from Principal Engineers and Directors for launch.
• Lead the implementation and operations of a "Deployment Bar Raiser" program for multiple groups. Conducted biweekly code safety reviews and provided approval for manual deployments.

South San Francisco, California, US

Engineer and interim manager working on extending existing Fraud/Risk systems while leading the engineering effort for the initial Compliance systems, resulting in a new Compliance Engineering team being created.

Seattle, WA, US

Engineer on a newly formed team responsible for developing video advertising and live streaming capabilities. Lead effort to integrate new systems with external clients to source video catalog. Also pioneered the engineering effort for a "Bezos" project to host a live streamed TV show on amazon.com, resulting in multiple software patents.

Seattle, WA, US

Managed a team of 10 engineers responsible for tax systems used worldwide by Amazon, affiliate sites, and third-party merchants that perform tax calculations for purchases. Oversaw 50 in-flight projects distributed across three sub-teams, handling technical issue resolution and ensuring projects launch on time.

Seattle, WA, US

Implemented, designed, and maintained tax systems for Amazon, affiliate sites, and third-party merchants, facilitating worldwide tax calculations on purchases.

Software engineer working on advertising systems for hundreds of Disney-owned websites, including Disney.com, ABC.com, and ESPN.com.

Seattle, WA, US

Played a key role in enhancing availability, scalability, and latency of tax systems along with handling and resolving tier-1 software outages.

US

Application Developer for scientific software focusing primarily on data collection and analysis.

US

Application Developer Intern for scientific software focusing primarily on data collection and analysis.

Master'S Of Computers And Information Technology, Computer Science

Associate'S Of Applied Science, Sign Language Interpreting

Bachelor Of Music, Piano Performance