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Seattle, Wa, Us

-Manage a small, cross-functional team responsible for delivering secure and reliable products for Alexa and Fire TV devices.-Orchestrate the design, implementation, and maintenance of critical security features, fostering collaboration across software engineering, security engineering, and project management disciplines.-Drive initiatives to keep the team at the forefront of AI security, continuously monitoring industry trends and implementing cutting-edge solutions to safeguard sensitive data and uphold the integrity of AI systems.-Proactively mitigate potential vulnerabilities and address emerging threats, enhancing user trust and product reliability.-Allocate time effectively between software engineering (60%), security engineering (10%), project management (20%), and people management (10%) responsibilities.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As a Sr. Security Software Engineer, I am deeply involved with Alexa's "Let's Chat" feature, which harnesses the power of generative artificial intelligence and Large Language Models (LLMs). A key achievement has been the implementation of a robust PKI infrastructure within AWS Private Certificate Authority (PCA), enabling the issuance and lifecycle management of Matter Certificates to enhance IoT device security.My responsibilities extend to developing sophisticated Detection Services, leveraging Big Data analytics and Machine Learning algorithms. These cutting-edge technologies are instrumental in safeguarding a wide array of Alexa-enabled IoT devices, including smart home systems, vehicles, and speakers.Our overarching goal is to foster trust among our customers and partners while simultaneously fortifying the Alexa and Fire TV ecosystems. This dual focus on innovation and security ensures a protected, seamless user experience across our platform.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Full Stack Engineer building tools to help AWS Sellers take timely actions and execute complex sales opportunities. Using Machine Learning our tools recommends actions at every step of the opportunity by continuously learning from thousands of successful opportunities.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Lead the team and started many initiatives to bootstrap the team from a single developer (me) to an agile team that built tools to support the NLU organization. Some of the initiative included Operation Excellence, Design Reviews, Security Reviews, Brainstorming, AWS infrastructure, and lots of documentation :) As an engineer I operate in many domains like Software Engineer, Data Engineer, and Security Certifier. I am a true Full Stack Engineer that loves building in AWS.As a team we bridged the gap between the science of AI (machine learning) and the infrastructure that support these technologies.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Using AWS Big Data Services and Machine Learning to keep Amazon's audio collections and products safe to ensure customer trust.

Seattle, Wa, Us

2/15 – 9/17 - Insight Data Warehouse TeamHelped Design and Build a Cloud Based Big Data Platform on AWS to collect data from our Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Centers. The system ingests and processes data from the services and robots that run the fulfillment centers. We aggregate the data into meaningful information that helps Operations Management, Support, and Engineering ensure that fulfillment centers across the globe are operating efficiently and that Amazon Customer Orders are delivered on time.12/13 – 2/15 - Database and Configuration GroupContributed to successful move from a legacy standalone robotic material handling control system to a multi-tenant cloud based solution. I was directly responsible for building services that supported the performance and state configurations in the fulfillment centers. Certified member of the Amazon Security Certifiers Group. We are authorized to review and approve Amazon software for production launch.We practice continuous software delivery using internal Amazon Tools. External Tools: AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, Dynamo, Redshift, Aurora, SQS, SNS, Kinesis), Java, Spring, Web Services.

The Enterprise Services Group is responsible for Ebsco’s backend Searching, Content, Indexing, and Linking technologies. We practice Agile development methodologies through iterative and incremental development. Work with the Content Services team that develops Ebsco’s latest back-end content storage for their online databases. Contribute to developing the document-database and run-time publishing system. The two main repositories for loading and retrieving of online content. The document database is a schema-less document-style database that stores UTF-8 encodings for rich XML markup. The content is stored in MARCXML record feeds comprising mostly of full-text journals, magazines and books. The run-time publishing system was developed for EBOOKS where the documents are broken up and stored as PDF pages, cover images, and raw text for searching.Tools: Java, Java5 Concurrency API’s, XML, BDB, MySQL, Liquibase, Glassfish, EJB3, JPA, MySQL, EasyMock, GWT, GXTSupport the Production Configuration Server used to automate the build, index, and replication processes. The tool allows command line tools as well as a web module to communicate with back-end services to maintain the state of the production build process and structure. The tool is also used by our Production AppWorx job scheduler.Tools: Java, Glassfish, EJB3, JPA, MySQL, EasyMock, GWT, GXTContribute to the Linking Team by supporting the matching services. The matching services were introduced to allow databases with no full-text to offer full-text by linking appropriate databases with full-text. All services support the front end ebscohost or external customers, so high throughput and reliability are crucial aspects of the systems.Tools: Java, JAX-RS, EJB3, Glassfish, Tomcat, Servlets, Java Threads, AXIS, XMLBeans, HttpUnit

Andover, Ma, Us

• Design, Develop, and Test software solutions that support Vicor's MES and ERP systems. This involved creating Web Applications, Web Services, Business Process’s, and Updating Legacy Systems.• Web applications are built on the Struts Framework and deployed onto Tomcat. The MVC is built around Oracle, Hibernate, JDBC, JSP, XML, JSTL, AJAX, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JAVA. • Web Services are written in Java and deployed onto Tomcat using AXIS. Legacy C Code that is being update to a web service is built using gSoap and deployed as a CGI on Apache web server. • Convert Legacy Systems built on CellWorks in C that utilizes a proprietary MBX Bus. The components: PLC (Program Logic Device), GUI (written in Swing), DB Srv and Bar Code Reader are replaced with new Java components or wrapped into web services.• Convert legacy PHP and ASP apps used by Managers and Engineers to interact with the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems. These are updated to Java or BPEL.• Lead Engineer supporting Infrastructure with emphasis on Tomcat, Web Application, Web Services, and new technology (Spring, GWT (Google Web Toolkit), JAX-WS and JBOSS). • Regression and load testing applications and web services using JMeter, ProxySniffer, Junit. • Worked on numerous issues involving Tomcat and Apache. Including: Configuration, Memory, Garbage Collector, Threads, and Connections. • Supported the infrastructure group on a adding a Load Balancer to ensure high availability. • Supported Red Hat/JBOSS on installing a certifying JBOSS environment.

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• Work as part of a team Designing, Developing, and Implementing the real-time control system software for semiconductor equipment products. • Demonstrate customized solutions to address complex customer issues involving multiple platforms through Data Collection, Test Definition/Execution, and effective interaction with Users.• Contribute to the Design, Modification, and Testing of new and existing Control Algorithms. Follow up with Code Reviews and Test Results from subsequent Testing and Debugging. • Prepare Technical Documentation; including but not limited to: Product Specifications, Algorithm Flow Diagrams, Test Documentation, Product Support Documentation and Project Schedules. • Interface with customers and Analyze/Refine customer’s specs and market requirements to drive product integration, testing and development at customer sites.

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Implement and Design C Software for a real time Control System. The distributed control system was implemented with multiple Motorola 68K series processors using the pSOS operating system. The intricatesystem design included: GUI/MMI, touch screen, motor controls, scheduling algorithms and serial communications. The development environment was Microsoft Visual C++, compiled on a VAX/VMS Tektronix 68K compiler/linker. The design emphasized fault tolerance/detection.Developed internal Web Applications for the Engineering Department. Designed the databases using SQL Server, the front end was built with Active Server Pages and JavaScript, and the data was transferred via Stored Procedures in SQL. The tools used were Visual InterDev, SQL Server, ASP, ADO, SQL, JavaScript, VB Script and HTML.

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Support engineering activities such as: design, test, modification, and assembly of prototype Electro-Mechanical and Software Systems. Applications include analog, digital, and logic systems. Work from schematics, diagrams, written and verbal descriptions to perform testing and trouble-shooting. Perform operational test and fault isolation on systems and equipment. Installation and testing of major subcomponents such as: Ion Sources, High Voltage Stages and Lenses, Vacuum Equipment, Light Optics and Robotic Handling Systems.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Associate In Science, Electro-Mechanical Engineering