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Seattle, Wa, Us

(Java) Built and maintained the CDN-ISP performance and capacity load balancing stacks for Prime Video handling all VOD and Live traffic for over 20 million customers. (Java) Migrated to full CI/CD pipeline for complex multi-region service including staged deployment, decreasing average time to release a code change from 5 days to full continuous delivery.(Java) Migrated tier-1 services of the Prime Video playback stack from legacy infrastructure to AWS services with no downtime or negative effects on customers.(Java) Lead team in establishment of functional automation suites used in continuous delivery to ensure a high product quality bar. Test suite covered 90% of our service's functional use cases.

Seattle, Wa, Us

(Java, Objective C) Built and maintained multiple platform agnostic testing frameworks enabling reliable testing of the Android and iOS Prime Video clients. Integrated frameworks into Amazon build systems, improving reporting of defects and preventing bad releases.(Java) Drove quality validation earlier in release cycle, building a platform agnostic automation framework which validated functional components at build time for a React Native application. This allowed code sharing of the validation amongst iOS and Android and a 99.9% test determinism rate due to functional validations being completed as a part of every developer's build. Trained developers on usage and best practices.(Java) Mentored Quality Assurance Engineers and peers on software development and functional testing best practices.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Amazon Prime Video Team(Java) Owned and drove quality of Prime Video playback features, including playback, multi-track audio, subtitles, ad-enabled video, second screen, and X-ray.(Java) Team functional automation mentor.

Redmond, Washington, Us

(C,C++,C#) Drove quality of virtualized storage (Storage Spaces) with functional, stress, and long-haul testing. Covered testing matrix of hardware, software, file system, and data resiliency types.(C,C++,C#) Planned and created kernel miniport shim driver which manipulated plug & play device objects. Implemented managed interface and functionality.(C++,C#) Implemented and owned tool to balance data across many physical disks inside of virtualized storage disks, maximizing available free space on virtual disks.(PowerShell) Implemented testing framework which could integrate with old testing framework, which solved a versioning problem commonly encountered in old framework.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

(C#,WMI) Implemented large remote computer administrative tool with many capabilities ranging from wakeup to adding and removing programs and printers to modifying users and active directory services, such as password reset and modification.

(PHP,HTML,CSS) Website content management(C\C++) Created a tool which automatically generated legal documents though Microsoft Word.

Lansing, Mi, Us

(C#,SQL) Created employee database backend and user friendly administrative application for servicing and querying.