Harry Thoma Email & Phone Number

Renton, Washington, United States

Software Development on MTG Arena

• Developed and maintained highly available customer-facing features for Alexa Communications used by over2000 weekly customers
• Utilized dev-ops tools to monitor systems including performance and business metrics, service logs, and automated alarms in order to maintain 99% availability and low customer perceived latency, and allow efficient.
• Learned and applied software development best practices including design principles, test driven development, continuous deployment systems, feature gating, and code reviews
• Used a variety of platforms and services including internal services and AWS (ECS, Lambda, DDB, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, etc.) to create highly maintainable, available, and reusable services
• Authored and contributed to 8 pages in the Alexa mobile app, utilizing React Native, Gulp, and Jest
• Worked closely with BI engineers to design and implement systems to evaluate product performance and customer satisfaction

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Facilitated weekly CS Labs with instructor for around 30 students
• Answered specific questions and gave advice about Java, MIPS assembly, and general coding practices
• Graded homework for around 30 students. Written proofs and programming assignment were graded for correctness, as well as clarity and style

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Developed customer-facing feature on Alexa App, predicted to be used 100+ times per day
• Created a thorough design document to describe solution using modular design patterns and service-oriented architecture
• Implemented RESTful service which interacted with 4+ existing Amazon services

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Lead and taught a coding camp for 4th-7th graders
• Worked one-on-one to assess participants’ understanding of material and adapt instruction as needed
• Developed 30-hour curriculum based on GDevelop, a drag and drop software
• Created 4 demo games and walk-through tutorials for each