Adam Jacques Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

I was responsible for building a domain-specific authorization system that 20+ different services leveraged to secure the AWS hardware and Amazon Devices supply chain.I identified cross-cutting developer productivity challenges across a 300-engineer org and developed strategies to reduce the cost of development.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Upon joining, I rapidly identified fundamental problems in the system and came up with a multi-phased plan to enable the Amazon Fresh store launch to unblock and launch (this was visible at the VP level) and longer-term projects to improve scaling and stability. I set a long-term technical vision for a project spanning two teams and oversaw tech designs from other engineers to fit within that vision.I worked with the product team to develop a product vision for a new internal template development editor that is expected to have a separate development team and product team.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I analyzed an existing team's processes and technical bar to identify weaknesses in team culture and engineering excellence and came up with multiple short-term and long-term plans to reduce technical debt.I improved team productivity and robustness of changes by introducing design reviews/templates and improve team code quality output with standards.I initiated and set high-level vision for a year + technical project to increase quality of data of numerical values in the Amazon Catalog including multiple teams across the organization.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I improved developer productivity by recognizing gaps in Amazon’s existing alarming and service management and designed solutions using AWS X-Ray and open-source exception tracking tools. I am actively working to drive adoption from other teams and departments.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I led high-impact projects with VP-level visibility from the requirements phase through to production. These projects required coordinating changes across multiple engineers and different teams requiring leadership and influencing skills.I developed new business goals by identifying opportunities to improve productivity and increase revenue. I wrote business documents that were reviewed by senior stakeholders and developed these into technical project designs.I consistently drove higher standards in code quality, architecture designs, and feature UX across multiple teams through design reviews, quality improvement campaigns, and code reviews.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I joined a brand new team that enabled Amazon to effectively plan selection of clothing/fashion products. I owned and drove code quality/infrastructure standards across the entire system (front-end three-tier and a back-end Apache Spark pipeline) using code analysis and code reviews.I oversaw the design and implementation of an interactive OLAP-style analytics/deep-dive UI and service that implemented a custom query execution engine to interact with Elasticsearch. Queries were optimized to aggregate and search across billions of products in the Amazon catalog.I directly worked with stakeholders to understand feature requirements and translated those into actionable technical implementation projects.I contributed multiple changes to core Amazon frameworks, including a service communication framework widely used by teams across Amazon.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Developed a custom job scheduling algorithm to execute and optimize large-scale applications in a domain-specific languageManaged software platforms and frameworks used by Amazon to predict product demand for all physical items world-wide

Marquette, Michigan, Us

Developed hardware validation software for Android platforms to ensure expected functionality in the wireless subsystems (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, etc)Coordinated projects and development while working a semi-autonomous lab environment

Seattle, Wa, Us

Designed and developed a new web service API used to interact with an existing data processing systemHelped setup and maintain a globally distributed and scalable data processing application by managing infrastructure capacity and minimizing outagesImproved the performance and scalability of an application by reducing bottlenecks and increasing maximum system utilization

Santa Clara, California, Us

Developed automated test plans used to validate correct operation and find bugs for new wireless hardware devicesDeveloped several new applications and systems used by various teams to test the efficiency and performance of upcoming and release wireless platformsDesigned and implemented an in-depth test framework for the Android platform used to verify low-level functionality of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular radio systems in upcoming mobile productsDeveloped a tool used by manufacturing technicians to quickly validate wireless cards from the factory assembly line

Seattle, Wa, Us

Improved and maintained a multi-tiered service written in Java and C# used by the purchasing teams at Amazon to coordinate and optimize purchasing workflows.Designed and implemented a custom WCF based serialization algorithm to improve application performance and increase network efficiency.

Marquette, Michigan, Us

Designed and developed an autonomous robot to be used as wireless device testing platform.Setup and maintained a small Ethernet network used for test device control using appropriate DHCP, Active Directory, etc. servers.Assisted and trained co-workers with new software and technologies used for their position.Managed the direction of a software development lab and all employees working in the lab.

Marquette, Michigan, Us

Installed communication infrastructure serving computers, phones, printers, and other network devicesInstalled and repaired devices such as switches and access pointsTroubleshot and repaired computers in a network environmentProvided technical support for network-related problems from students, faculty, and staff located on the University campusDeveloped and maintained software used for testing the University's WiMAX network and mapping possible signal strength and performance problem spots

Developed and maintained several web projects that integrated third-party systems with a web-commerce web site in a small-business environmentAssisted in the general day-to-day operations in the business by managing inventory levels, communicating with customers, and updating the online product catalog