David Edwards Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• As a Software Development Engineer II and the Operational Excellence Bar Raiser of the Forecasting Data Discovery Acquisition team, I designed and built a new ingestion system while improving the team's operational.
• Communicated efficiently with my customers to clearly understand their use cases throughout the design and implementation stages. This helped resolve ambiguity caused by 3 large Amazon Business data model changes.
• Designed and built a real-time ingestion system for the Amazon Business Planned Spend customer agreement data to align with the Amazon S-team objectives.
• Used AWS SQS, Lambda, Kinesis Firehose, S3 and Glue to deliver an input dataset to the Forecasting model teams.
• Data Quality System Forecasting data quality check feature implementation in Scala, Kotlin and Typescript.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• As a member of the Forecasting Data Discovery Acquisition team, I designed and built components to support our Privacy On-Demand Data deletion goal (GDPR compliance).Highlights:
• Working with customers to understand their requirements and uses cases when defining the schema for the On-Demand data deletion orchestration AWS S3/Glue tables.
• Created a new ingestion pattern to ingest large input files capable of processing 13 million json records per file.
• Used AWS SNS, SQS, Lambda and S3.
• Identified a critical bug in a common code package that could have caused any consumer system to fail.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• As a part-time security consultant with 4 years of experience, I have hands-on experience working with customers to improve their Cloud, Infrastructure and Application security posture and ensure their information and.
• Hardened a TLS web server, identifying cryptographic failures and permissive directories.
• Leveraged my proficiency in shell scripting and object-oriented programming to develop numerous Bash/Powershell scripts to automate security audits and deploy essential security tools.
• Configured an Active Directory Domain Controller on Windows Server 2019. Configured Group Policy Objects to deploy security policies to over 500 workstations.
• Conducted a thorough LAN security assessment using offensive security techniques with Kali Linux
• Managed virtual servers with ESXi and KVM hypervisors.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• As a member of the Forecasting Storage and Access team, I was assigned an intern project with production value. The project’s goal was to provide to the team visibility on the limitations of their Glue data catalog.
• After gathering and defining the requirements, I focused specifically on AWS Glue and S3, paramount cloud services used by the system.
• Moved forward with the creation of a design that leveraged a variety of AWS services such as Batch, S3, SQS, Lambda and QuickSight for the end user interface.
• Completed the implementation stage successfully, leveraging AWS CDK to build a full CI/CD pipeline to simplify future system maintenance and growth. The tool has been used in production by the team for over a year now.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Utilized my C++ and C knowledge to resolve customer tickets and to develop new features for Trend Micro's Deep Security Agent. Highlights:
• Solidified my understanding of data structures as I built a feature to autonomously collect metrics from the Log Inspection engine.
• Resolved shared library issues that were impacting the deployment of scripts inside RedHat and Debian Docker containers.
• Improved my critical thinking and problem solving skills by fixing bugs in the Application Control and Integrity Monitoring modules
• Gained experience using the CI/CD Jenkins server and Amazon EC2 instances to create product builds for testing.
• Used the AWS CLI to store updated Docker images on AWS ECR.

• Teacher Assistant for the first year engineering course named "Introduction to Computer Programming for Engineers (APSC 143)". Highlights:
• Marked weekly lab assignments written in C, Arduino, and MATLAB.
• Followed a systematic methodology to provide efficient code reviews
• Leveraged my written communication skills to provide feedback